Comments on: Drupal Views: how to display random nodes/content

By: Ed Love

Ed Love — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:58:20 +0000

Ok, I’ve found it. Under Filter. Why didn’t anyone SAY filter? Why isn’t it mentioned in the doco?

There are a million options for Views, and if it’s not documented, then it’s incredibly hard for newbies like me to learn.

I’m not asking for a fancy schmancy book, just an extra word or two here and there.

Thanks!

By: Ed Love

Ed Love — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:52:26 +0000

Where on earth IS Global:Random?! I’m using the latest D7 with v3, and can’t find it anywhere. I’m only offered options to sort ASC/DEC with no randomness to be found anywhere

I was going to upload a screenshot, but can’t see how to do it.

Thanks in advance. This is driving me mad!

By: littleguy

littleguy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:18:47 +0000

That’s great, thanks!

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:52:46 +0000

Thanks, I’ve updated the post.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:58:28 +0000

for anyone using Views 3 (7.x-3.0-rc1) and looking for random sort criteria, it is available under “Global:Random” in Sort Criteria.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:32:51 +0000

Has this been re-added since 7.x? The randomizing feature is something that really needs to get back in!

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 02 May 2011 07:10:41 +0000

Wait! Where’d it go in Views 7.x-3.x-dev !? Rats!

By: Mrigank

Mrigank — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:30:13 +0000

This tip is simple and really useful. I was trying to make this work through dedicated modules but the views option is very straightforward.

By: xjkwak

xjkwak — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:39:29 +0000

Easy solution.

Thanks

By: jeremy mayhew

jeremy mayhew — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:13:14 +0000

thank you so much! such a simple solution but without your assistance, it was hidden and frustrating. thank you!

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:22:16 +0000

You can use block template to override block’s title. Views UI provides nice and detailed list of template files to use for styling output – look for ‘Theming information’ or alike, your template filename might look like block-views–viewname.tpl.php

Theming with template files is relatively easy (and fast, and powerful), but may require a significant amount of time to get started. If you have a recent Drupal book with a chapter on theming – give it a try.

By: JonR

JonR — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:45:01 +0000

The random sort is a great tip! I’ve got a site in dev and attempted to use the random block module but had numerous issues with it. This is much easier.

Do you know if there is an easy way to replace the block title with the title of the node from the view? I’m using random with the return limited to one node.

Jon

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:29:33 +0000

Wow, you have no idea how long i have been trying to work that out