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Goal: Create a Grid that shows mixed content types and have control how those types are added to grid (ie. by row)

I have 3 content types and would like control over how they are added to a view.

Case 1: inject a row of Content Type B or C into a view of Type A based on row number.

Case 2: intersperse view with (possibly random) Content type C (think adding images to liven it up.)

Some approaches I've explored:

For case 1 I could just create seperate blocks but then I need to keep the view order consistent (perahps using nodequeue?) across blocks. Do I need to pass the current node queue position as an argument to each block?

For case 2 how do I insert Content Type C images every few rows? (I could even use css but need the grid to wrap around it.)

Important note: I'm a system builder, not a developer so prefer something that can be maintained without managing custom code but a basic views template would be fine.

Case 1

Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type B Content Type B Content Type B Content Type B Content Type B Content Type B Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type C Content Type C Content Type C Content Type C Content Type C Content Type A

Case 2

Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type C Content Type A Content Type A Content Type C Content Type A Content Type B Content Type B Content Type B Content Type C Content Type B Content Type B Content Type A Content Type A Content Type C Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type A Content Type C Content Type A Content Type A

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  • It gets even worse as Views is not letting me mix hte content types. drupal.org/project/views_field_view could be helpful, but what I'd really like is to create a View that acts as a Content Type to views. This way I could do the ordering and avoid having to code a template to insert.
    – Sonicthoughts
    Commented Aug 25, 2015 at 17:16

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sounds doable with Views Field View, I have done something a bit similar using Views Field View with Contextual filters. if it did't work the way you want, so you need to code it checkout this answer

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