Show random user in webpart

Hi

I'm developing a team site for soccer team. I would like to show a random player (member of the players group) in a webpart on the startpage. Anyone with a sample how to handle this.

Regards

Peter

Thanx

They are users in the site, do you know if it possible to handle that instead

Otherwise thanks for the sample

Thanks

I'll try that.

Peter

I had a situation where i wanted to select random records out of a list. I used a dataviewwebpart to get the data and edited the xsl to get random results.

Your steps actually helped me with this proces.

I did the following:

1. create a dataviewwebpart

2. connect to a list

3. make a variable that counts the rows

4. make a variable that does select="ddwrt:Random(1,$CountRows)"

5. then give the FirstRow and LastRow the select value of the variable name in step 4.

This worked for me without making an whole new webpart

Greetz

Thanks for your post Rick it was exactly what i was looking for. However as I am a newby to this I am getting stuck with your instructions. I have created a daatview web part that displays a single item form from the list. I am not to clear on:

1) Do I need to create a variable to count rows when there is already one there:

<xsl:variable name="dvt_RowCount" select="count($Rows)" />

I have added a variable to select the random item:

<xsl:variable name="randomtip" select="ddwrt:Random(1,$dvt_RowCount)" />

I have also changed the select value of the first and last rows:

<xsl:with-param name="FirstRow" select="randomtip" />
<xsl:with-param name="LastRow" select="randomtip" />

I only get the same item each time, which is the first item in the list.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Daniel