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Hi,

I’ve got this area of my clients homepage that has channel entries randomized with a jQuery scroller.  It all works fine, but I’ve now been asked to always have the first entry be X, and then everything randomized afterwards.  Is something like this possible ?

Thanks.

Hiya,

If I’m understanding correctly then perhaps you could use two weblog / channel tags here? One for the first entry and then one for the random entries.

That or perhaps something using a Matrix field where you choose the entries via relationships and in the weblog / channel tag you pull out the first row of data for your X entry and then everything else after you randomise them?

Don’t know if that would help at all?

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the quick reply.  You’ve given me an idea to just create a category for that special entry, and then do the rest randomized.  I’ll give that a shot.

Thanks much.

Hiya,

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the quick reply.  You’ve given me an idea to just create a category for that special entry, and then do the rest randomized.  I’ll give that a shot.

Thanks much.

No problem at all. Yep a category could do it too or perhaps a custom status instead. Many ways of attacking the same thing in ExpressionEngine which is why it’s just so great to work with 😊

Hope it all goes well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark

Maybe I’m missing what you’re after, but if it’s the same entry you want to be first each time, can’t you just hard code the first entry: {exp:channel:entries entry_id="XX" ...} then have another channel entry tag to populate the other items.

Thats exactly what I ended up doing.  It was too simple, actually!

I feel like a knob for even asking…

Thanks.