How to assign same priority(or order) to regions on a page?

Question

We need to use two regions on our article pages. The article page has a 2-column layout. On the LHS column we have different kind of content.

The main type of content on LHS for example are:

1. Article Content (Region : LHS-ArticleContent)

2. Tabs (Region: LHS-ArticleTabs)

In the Page view, the regions are rendered like:

<dxa:region name="LHS-ArticleContent" />
<dxa:region name="LHS-ArticleTabs" /> 

This always will render the 'LHS-ArticleContent' Component presentations first and then the 'LHS-ArticleTabs'. Is there any way that both can be displayed at same level?

For. e.g. If Editors want to have content on page with below order:

1. LHS-ArticleContent
2. LHS-ArticleTabs
3. LHS-ArticleContent
4. LHS-ArticleTabs

How this blending can be achieved?

(We are using DXA 1.2 Java)

Answer 1

I'm not sure if I fully get the question, but from what I understand it sounds like you have created two regions, where you only need a single one.

If you want to have the following content in a region:

1. LHS-ArticleContent
2. LHS-ArticleTabs
3. LHS-ArticleContent
4. LHS-ArticleTabs

Then I would create a LHS region allowing both the ArticleContent and the ArticleTabs Schemas in that region. The specific order can then be determined by the authors directly on the page as is normally done.

But if what you actually mean in that you need four different regions on the page, where 1 & 3 and 2 & 4 are the same kind of region, then you will need to use different named regions for that currently. See http://docs.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL%20DXA-v2/GUID-82C0A08C-55E7-4054-8911-937CFAFC7EB9 for details, this is a feature we added in DXA 1.2