Without a doubt, the Views module is one of those Drupal modules without which Drupal wouldn’t be the same. With Drupal 6, Views got a major revision, and I must say I quite like the new interface. There was one thing that I couldn’t figure out immediately however: how to random sort the selection. I should have looked harder in the sort criteria – which is the most logical place to put it – but I was sort of expecting the possiblity to add randomness to any sort criterion I selected (e.g. node:type). Not so: in the list with all possible criteria, you have to select “global:random”.
Still not sure whether that is the most logical way of doing it. Personally, I would think adding “random” as a choice for each criterion (besides “ascending” and “descending”) would yield a much finer granularity and makes more sense. The fact that the random sort criterion is listed as “global:random asc” (asc for ascending) doesn’t really help changing this view either.
But probably there is a good reason for doing it this way. To paraphrase a French proverb: The programmer has his reasons that reason doesn’t know.
