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    So, I have a section on my website with featured articles:
    <section class="usa-section usa-section-dark usa-graphic_list">
    <div class="usa-grid usa-graphic_list-row">
    [[!getResources? &parents=`-1` &resources=`322,224` &tpl=`featuredarticles` &includeTVs=`1` &processTVs=`1`]]
    </div>
    <div class="usa-grid usa-graphic_list-row">
    [[!getResources? &parents=`-1` &resources=`79,75` &tpl=`featuredarticles` &includeTVs=`1` &processTVs=`1`]]
    </div>
    </section>


    The template looks like this:

    <div class="usa-width-one-half usa-media_block">
          <img class="usa-media_block-img" src="[[+tv.tvImage]]" alt="" width="124" height="124" />
          <div class="usa-media_block-body">
            <h3><a href="[[~[[+id]]]]" title="[[+description]]">[[+longtitle]]</a></h3>
            <p>[[+introtext]]</p>
          </div>
        </div>


    As you see, I manually put the ID´s of the article I want to be featured. How can I automate this?
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      How do you want to select the featured articles (newest, oldest, random)?

      Are the articles under a single parent?

      In terms of how the final page looks, are you displaying one featured articles list or two?

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        • 42141
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        Quote from: BobRay at Feb 05, 2019, 06:20 PM
        How do you want to select the featured articles (newest, oldest, random)?

        Are the articles under a single parent?

        In terms of how the final page looks, are you displaying one featured articles list or two?


        It would be random selected ones, displayed in one list. The articles that are selected are articles from two parents.
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          • 932 Posts
          In that case you can just set the &parents=`` attribute to the parent(s) you want to pull from and delete the &resources attribute. To sort randomly just add &sortby=`RAND()`
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