Get a random set of values

[4e6anenk0]

Hi! With this plugin, using obsidian has become more enjoyable. I would like to use it for learning other languages and generating dictionaries. For example, to display a random list of words. Something like:

LIST FROM #word WHERE status == "learning" RANDOM 3

Where RANDOM 3 is the number of displayed random words from the entire list of links. But I haven't found an easy solution to this problem. This feature can be useful for lists of notes that are constantly changing status. Perhaps there is some working solution?

[calpa]

You can use the Dataview JavaScript API

[blacksmithgu]

The only concern with random is how frequently you want the result to change - dataview internally can recompute views every 500ms, which would cause your values to change frequently!

Perhaps I can make it so you provide a "key" to the random function, and when the key changes, it evaluates to something else? So random(list, date(now).day) would change once a day, for example.

As @calpa mentions, you can use DataviewJS to already implement this, though I will see what I can do for Dataview queries.

[4e6anenk0]

If the data changed by key, it would be great. So it's possible to organize the logic of repetition.

[Janrith]

Has there been any further thought on this? I'm looking to have notes with multiple image references in the frontmatter and be able to randomly select which image to display, either on the note itself (which I think I can pull off inline with dice roller), but also via an overview dataview query... something like:

---
Tags: Monster
MonsterName: Foo Fighter
Image:
- Image1.png
- Image2.png
- Image3.png
---

```dataview
table without id
MonsterName
,"![cover|200](file:///c:\addrep\vaults\zz_assets\" + random(Image) + ")" as Pic
from #Monster
```

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[base698]

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