Featured items in omeka-s?

[symac]

Hello,
in omeka classic there was an option to describe an item as “featured”. It might be because of the terms I am using but I have not been able to find an equivalent option with omeka-s.

My goal is to have a random item displayed on homepage, and I’d like to pick a random item from a pool of selected items, that’s why I was looking for this option. But if you have another idea to flag an item as featured, I’m interested.

Thanks.

[jflatnes]

You’re right, there is no “featured” checkbox or choice in Omeka S.

I would say that since Omeka S lets you have items be in as many sets as you want, that’s basically the replacement for an explicit Featured option: you can create a “Featured” item set and put items in there without disturbing any other ways you might want to categorize them.

[symac]

Thanks @jflatnes for the advice.

In case someone lands on this page looking for a detailed answer. Here is the code I have written to achieve this :

$itemSetFeatured = $this->api()->searchOne('item_sets', [
   'id' => 435258 // The id of my item_set used for featured items
])->getContent();

$items = $this->api()->search('items', [
   'item_set_id' => $itemSetFeatured->id(),
   'limit' => 1,
   'sort_by' => 'random'
])->getContent();

$featuredItem = $items[0];
print $featuredItem->linkPretty('large');