- Author: Dave Krause
In response to my own blog post, I've added another option to Spotlight Stories. In the Spotlight Group editor, you can now choose to add a link to "View All." This will bypass the story and take the user directly to the list of all stories.
Hopefully, this will assist those of you who would like to invite users to view more than just the one random or most recent story added.
- Author: Dave Krause
I've received a few inquiries in the last couple of days regarding the use of "random" in some Site Builder assets (notably, the Spotlight Stories). The option allows the page to display a random story each time that page is called.
The question I get is 'why, then, does the same story often show up,' and how 'can you (Dave) fix it.'
Let's take a look at how the function actually works before I make any comments on why we do it the way we do.
WARNING - TINY BIT OF MATH AHEAD
Basically, a random function will pull a number from between 1 and whatever limit you assign....