As part of a series of educational apps I’m using random choice from a list to serve up speaking tasks to English language learners. One annoying aspect is that students are served up with tasks that they have already seen in any one session. The shorter the list, the more frequently that happens. Because of the length of some of the strings, lack of text wrapping and styling capabilities, Random Picker isn’t up to the job. But the Random Picker component has a built-in function to remove duplicates from the list. Does anyone know how that is achieved?
I came up a method to remove prompts or questions or players or whatever I’m displaying once they have been used by changing a logged in user value and filtering for it. I also found a way to reset the list using @Victor’s Timer Tricks. The problem is, say I have a list of 50 items to choose from randomly. If item number 24 is displayed and removed from the list, sometimes the random function will choose number 24 even though it doesn’t exist in the list any more. Then the output is blank.
The count used by the RAND function is still 50 even though the list itself only has access to 49 items. I need to come up with a way to remove an item from inclusion in the random function dynamically. My math skills are way rusty but it seems like some kind of array or matrix function might be up to the job. Is that even possible in Adalo?
The creator of Random Picker obviously found a way around it but is no longer active in Adalo and doesn’t respond to contacts made through social media. Any thoughts?
