Random menu in wayfinder

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ilja-web Reply #1, 13 years, 7 months ago

Hi all,

I'm trying to get random links in wayfinder and I can't get is to work.
I've read something about &sortBy=`random` but that doesn't do the trick

My call is like this:

[[Wayfinder?
&startId=`6`
&level=`1`
&limit=`7`
&rowTpl=`C.tmpl.list-menu`
&outerClass=`list-menu`
&includeDocs=`7,8,9,10,11,4,12,14,16,17,18,19,20,21,22`
&sortBy=`random`
]]

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

This question has been answered by paulp. See the first response.

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fourroses666 Reply #2, 13 years, 7 months ago

You can use Ditto

Evolution user, I like the back-end speed and simplicity

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ilja-web Reply #3, 13 years, 7 months ago

Quote from: fourroses666 at Feb 20, 2013, 03:20 PM

You can use Ditto

Thanks for telling me! Didn't know 'ditto'. What's the difference between ditto, wafinder and getResources? I'd like to fix this with wayfinder tough.

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fourroses666 Reply #4, 13 years, 7 months ago

I dunno how to do with wayfinder.
I think this must work:

[!Ditto? 
&parents=`123`  
&tpl=`chunky`
&limit=`99`
&display=`99`
&total=`99` 
&sortBy=`pub_date` 
&sortDir=`DESC` 
&randomize=`1`
!]

Chunky:
<ul>

<li><a href="[~[+id+]~]">[+alias+]</a></li>

</ul>

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sottwell Reply #5, 13 years, 7 months ago

If our friend has his Wayfinder properties set out like that then he must be using Revo. So instead of Ditto he'd use getResources.

Wayfinder will make a nested list, while getResources makes a flat list.

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ilja-web Reply #6, 13 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for your comment @sottwell. It's true I use revo.

The good news is: &sortBy=`random` is actually working. The bad news is I have to clear the 'site cache' in the manager to see it sort it in random order. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Ilja

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Paulp Reply #7, 13 years, 7 months ago

Call it un cached

[[!Wayfinder?

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sottwell Reply #8, 13 years, 7 months ago

Correct. All the listing snippet (getResources, Wayfinder, etc) should be called cached - unless - they will be doing something dynamic, something that you want to change on every page view. Otherwise, the snippet is processed, its tags are replaced by its output, and the page is cached. Next time, the page is served from cache; no snippet is there to process. Uncached snippets are processed after the page is cached, so the cached version still has the snippet tags to get processed on every page request. Use with caution, though; it can slow your site down to have to process the snippet on every page load.

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ilja-web Reply #9, 13 years, 7 months ago

Great tip and thanks for the info about cache! I'll try to call it whit ! And see how the speed will be.

Great guys!

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ilja-web Reply #10, 13 years, 7 months ago

The ! did the trick for my wayfinder! Didn't notice any speed difference

I tried the same trick with my 'Gallery' component but that didn't work.

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