Creating a Combo Collection

Once you’ve created your basic collections, you can start to generate combo collections from your data.

Combo collections take the items from one collection and combine them with the items in another to create variations around your head term.

For example, if you’re planning to create pages that contain venue recommendations in different cities, you might create the following basic collections:

• category (Bar, Restaurant, Theatre, Pub)

• location (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth)

• venues (Joe’s Ol’ Timey Pub, McDonalds, Speak-e-z)

To create our combo pages, head to your collections menu, click ‘New’, and select ‘New Combo Collection’.

You can also toggle between regular collections and combo collections by clicking the icon in the collection creation menu.

Next, select the collections you want to combine.

Findable will iterate through your collections to create new combo items. In our example, we’re combining 7 categories with 4 cities, giving us 28 unique items in our combo collection.

Next, create a template for naming your combo pages. Use the @ symbol to bring up a context menu that connects to your fields. This is where you define your head term (effectively your page title).

In our case, we want to create pages for our head term Top {venue type} in {location}.

To do so, we tag our category and location.

The output would give us pages like:

• Top bars in Melbourne

• Top bars in Sydney

• Top restaurants in Sydney

• Top theatres in Brisbane

Once you’ve created your combo collection, add fields as you normally would and finish building out the content for your pages.