Trying to combine entries from "news" and "events" channels

Question

I have a big scroller in the middle of my front page that shows the latest 3 news entries whose "Front Page Feature" field is set to "Yes". Somewhere else, smaller, I display the next upcoming event whose "Front Page Feature" is set to "Yes". I'd like to combine the 3 newest added news -and- events into that big scroller.

The code to populate the scroller is:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" search:front_page_feature="Yes" dynamic="no" limit="3" orderby="date" sort="desc"}

I wish I could set channel="news|events", but they use different fieldsets. So I wish I could do channel="news|events" and

search:front_page_feature="Yes" search:events_front_page_feature="Yes"

But "AND" is only allowed with multiple search terms, no OR. I don't know if there will be an easy way to do this.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, setting the front page status using a status or category would be a good way to accomplish this.

{exp:channel:entries channel="news|events" status="featured_on_homepage" dynamic="no" limit="3" orderby="date" sort="desc"}

Or...

{exp:channel:entries channel="news|events" category="(id number of category for front page entries could go here)" dynamic="no" limit="3" orderby="date" sort="desc"}