Symphony.

Well, the topic title says it all really: I want to create a DS where I randomly get three entries from a section, but I don’t want any of the three latest. Is it possible without going into the DS’ php-code?

If you want to keep this in a single DS then yes.

You could create one DS that pulls the latest third entry, using a Date field as the Output Parameter: order by Date, show one entry per page, and show page 3.

You can then create the DS that chooses random entries where the Date is “earlier than {$ds-latest-three}”.

Nice solution! Thanks.

I was going to suggest having 2 DS, one with 3 latest entries and another pulling 6 random entries. Then use XSLT to pick out of the 6 random entries, filtering out the possible 3 that may be the latest ones.

However, Nick’s suggestion is more elegant in that the logic is done on the data side rather than the template side.