Random page list

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I'm curious if there are any existing add-ons or solutions that allow for a the contents of a page list to be displayed randomly. My end goal is to have a "featured" box thats randomly loads a single page list record that contains the page's link & description. Right now I have a jQuery solution that basically loads all the page list results but only displays one at random, but it seems like theres probably a more eloquent way of doing this.

hursey013
 
tallacman replied on at Permalink Reply
tallacman
I don't know of any block that does this. Smartwebprojects has a "Recently Update Pages" block that is pretty cool. You can see a version of it herehttp://performancec5.com/reviews/recently-edited-pages/... as well as a link to their site.

Steve
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
When you say display randomly, do you mean continuously as in "news ticker" style, or do you mean a different item with each page load? jQuery seems a good solution for the former. If you want to set up completely different blocks for each "item," you might want to check out the Randomizer add-on by the C5 team.

-Steve
hursey013 replied on at Permalink Reply
hursey013
I've got the news ticker style jquery going already, what I'm looking more for is using the actual page list functionality to pull in one page on each reload.

Its for a medical website, they offer several different services, so I have a page set up with all the services and descriptions displayed. I want to randomly pull in one service on the homepage to highlight it. I have it set up to do that now with the Data Display package, but I was hoping to only have to update the page description in one place rather than in the page attributes and the data display record.
Shotster replied on at Permalink Reply
Shotster
The Randomizer does basically what you describe except it displays an item at specified intervals. You could probably easily modify it to disable the interval functionality and just load a random block with each page load. Alternatively, it might actually work well for you as it is. Just specify a really long interval. I'd suggest checking out the screencast for the add-on.

http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/randomizer/...

-Steve