List of items from multiple categories

Hello,
is there any "Menu Item Type" to generate a list of articles from multiple categories, which I could manually assign to a "menu item" or any other workarounds?

In my case: I have 5 main categories and each of them has a child-category "news". On the frontpage, I'd like to collect the 2 most recent "news"-articles from every single "news"-category and sort them by the date of creation.

Regards

i think create a category home
load universal module on it and use scope to do this
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Thank you,

for my better understanding. There is no specific component view which can handle more than one category (similar to K2). Instead of this special view, I have to generate a single flexicontent-item and link it to a menu-item and assign the universal module to this menu-item?
Should this item be empty, so that only modules bring the whole content to the view, or how can I integrate the module into this empty item?

I ask, because the frontpage should be generated dynamically by the most recent (number of) articles from each selected/collected subcategory.
I would not prefer to manually assign a category "frontpage". A component-view with this features would be nice

Regards

Regards

mcmurdok wrote: There is no specific component view which can handle more than one category (similar to K2). Instead of this special view, I have to generate a single flexicontent-item and link it to a menu-item and assign the universal module to this menu-item?
Should this item be empty, so that only modules bring the whole content to the view, or how can I integrate the module into this empty item?

yes, creat a type home insert field to load module
do not use other thing
create a link to this item and set default link in joomla menu ... and i become that you want
you can propose this multiple view in request forum, interesting thing for futur realese

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Thank you,
by assigning the universal module into an item I got nearly what I wanted. Now I have a list with news from all news-categories which are all on other positions and levels. It's also possible to sort the items as I want.
One thing I can't solve is to devide the amount of news-items in sub-pages because of the presentation inside an item-assigned module.
This is the main reason for an I would it call "Universal flexicontent component view".
My case of "news-items" from several non-cascading "news-categories" is only a sample.
I could imagine a component view, where I can collect the articles/items from every category I want, by using the scopes like in the universal-module. This amount of collected item would be devideable in a component view. Maybe by an advancement of the flexicontent-category-view.

Regards

did you propose it on forum request ?
flexicontent.org/forum/index.php ... =viewforum
but i didn't think it for now ... team want stabilise 1.5.6 and 2.0 version and after work on new version
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