Load a random entity / Create a random number

AFAIK there is no action plugin available yet to generate randoms. But you could use the Views: Execute query action to receive a list of entities with a random sort in the view. When you then take the first one from the results, that should be a random entity.

Thank you! What is the command of taking the first one form the result? If there are multiple fields, how to retrieve a certain field? For example, the view result is stored in "get_ad". When I display the message of "get_ad", it prints everything of that record, rather than the field I setup in the view.

If there are multiple fields, how to retrieve a certain field?

The views query always returns a list of entities. Your field configuration in a view does not have any impact, they are only used later when rendering the output. But for the query, it's only always returning entities. You can then use actions like Entity: get field value to retrieve field values.

What is the action of taking the first one from the result?

You can use the List: remove item action for that.

Or, you can configure the pager of your view to output only 1 item.

My query just displays one item and one field.
I use VIEWS: EXECUTE QUERY to load the view, and the name of token is "get_htad", I then display the message of [get_htad], it gives me everything of that product from product_id to format. The field I need to retrieve is "ht_ad".

I used [get_htad:ht_ad], [get_htad:ht_ad:value], [ht_ad], nothing came out.

I used "get field value" as shown in the attached image. Then I tried to print [this_ad], nothing came out.

Not sure what I did wrong.

I got it!! I need to use List: remove item before getting the data. This ticket can be closed.

Thank you!

For anyone else looking to use random numbers you can leverage the flexibility of twig

https://twig.symfony.com/doc/2.x/functions/random.html

Use the "Render: Twig" action with {{ random("min", "max") }}
(replace min and max with range you want, you can include tokens)

You can also get random items from lists
{{ random([your-list]) }}

{{ random(['apple', 'orange', 'citrus']) }} {# example output: orange #}

I'll also note, that twig here is super useful for manipulating the rendering of lists in ECA in general without having to make complex loops

{% for item in my_array %}
    <div>{{ item }}</div>
{% endfor %}

Or grab your random item and wrap it in the html you might want in the same twig action, etc

<div>{{ random([your-list]) }}</div>