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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?

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    Quick question. Why not to use status instead of custom fields?
    – Sobral
    Mar 27, 2014 at 21:33
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    If setting a status to define front page items isn't suitable, you might use a category instead. Mar 27, 2014 at 21:49

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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"}

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  • Thanks Robson and Nick, I totally forgot about statuses and that fixes it perfectly.
    – jphansen
    Mar 28, 2014 at 13:19

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