How do you choose a media item at random from a Page Connection in a Zotonic template?

[Alain O'Dea]

Please answer on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3917048/how-do-you-choose-a-media-item-at-random-from-a-page-connection-in-a-zotonic-temp

I would like to render a random connected media item in Zotonic as
follows:

{% with m.rsc[id].banner as media %}
{% if media %}
{% with media.random as m %}
{% media m %}
{% endwith %}
{% endif %}
{% endwith %}

How do you choose a media item at random from a Page Connection in a
Zotonic template?

[Arjan Scherpenisse]

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Didn't try it, but:

{% with m.rsc[id].banner|random as randombanner %}

should work?

See http://zotonic.com/filter-random

Arjan

On 10/12/2010 06:47 PM, Alain O'Dea wrote:
> {% with m.rsc[id].banner as media %}

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[Alain O'Dea]

That didn't work, but it's a good starting point. Thank you Arjan.

I am going to debug the random filter and figure out why it doesn't
like my resource collection :)

On Oct 12, 5:12 pm, Arjan Scherpenisse <ar...@scherpenisse.net> wrote:
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> Didn't try it, but:
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> {% with m.rsc[id].banner|random as randombanner %}
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> should work?
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> Seehttp://zotonic.com/filter-random

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> Arjan
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> On 10/12/2010 06:47 PM, Alain O'Dea wrote:> {% with m.rsc[id].banner as media %}
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[Marc Worrell]

Try:

{% with m.rsc[id].banner|make_list|random as randombanner %}

The 'make_list' should be part of 'random', at least that would make life easier :-)

- Marc

[Alain O'Dea]

That works beautifully.  Thank you Marc.  There are free points for the taking on StackOverflow if you care for them.  My self-answered questions look a little weak :)