Feed with 2+ Types of Things

[sridharan.s]

Is there any way to create a feed that displays 2 different types of things within a single feed? …I understand that I can use a repeating group and do two different search for’s and :merge the two results. However, the RG requires me to select a single type of thing.

Any way to achieve this without needing to change our database which is very involved and has performance implications throughout our app?

[sridharan.s]

This I found a solution.

@Arche

The way I’d do it would be to first create a type of post.
Then the post type could have fields to incorporate any or all of your needed properties. This way you could have a bookmark accompanied by a photo if needed.
And showing them in a repeating group (i.e. stream) is now really easy - just have the elements in the cell to show up or hide according to the existence of the data they would display.

Please chime in if you have any additional ideas.

[NigelG]

Have your RG with a type of “text”. Pull out the unique ids for thing a, and merge with thing b.

Then in the RG you can have groups that show depending on if the unique id is found.

Your group then is set to the the thing you need, so all the data is there.

So no database changes needed. But maybe a little slower.

[blueback09]

If you don’t need the two things mixed together in the list you could just put one RG below the other, but right next to each other so they look like one list when they display.