# Connect to a meta engine or to each engine separately, to get results from each engine
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-to-a-meta-engine-or-to-each-engine-separately-to-get-results-from-each-engine/244554
**Category:** Elastic Search
**Tags:** elastic-app-search
**Created:** [August 11, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-to-a-meta-engine-or-to-each-engine-separately-to-get-results-from-each-engine/244554 "2020-08-11T13:01:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sttevan88](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sttevan88)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-to-a-meta-engine-or-to-each-engine-separately-to-get-results-from-each-engine/244554/1 "2020-08-11T13:01:43Z")
Hi elastic community,
We just started using app search in our web app, but are running into some problems.
USE CASE:
on our landing page we have 2 sections. (will be 5 soon) each section shows N posts, first section is for reviews and the other is for other posts.
we have an engine in app search for reviews and another one for other posts, also we have a meta engine that combines the two (will combine 5)
What we need is to:
either, meta engine can be limited per engine (thats part of it ) so that we can guarantee to get N amount of reviews and M amount of posts
or, connect to multiple engines, but all of them use the same elastic-ui search provider.
any idea if the first one is possible and how, if not, any idea how to implement the latter.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-to-a-meta-engine-or-to-each-engine-separately-to-get-results-from-each-engine/244554/2 "2020-08-13T12:49:51Z")
Re-phrasing this for my own understanding:
You have 2 types of documents, posts and reviews. You store them in 2 separate engines. You also have a meta-engine to combine the 2.
You are using [search-ui](https://github.com/elastic/search-ui).
In your search experience, you need to make it so that you see 5 results of each type, in a single experience, using a single SearchProvider.
Option A:
Adapt your search experience to something like we have on [elastic.co](http://elastic.co): [https://www.elastic.co/search?q=app%20search&size=n\_20\_n](https://www.elastic.co/search?q=app%20search&size=n_20_n). We have different result types, they are just hidden behind tabs.
Option B:
To get the experience you're looking for, you will have to do 2 separate API calls.
Instead of using our App Search Connector, [implement your own handler](https://github.com/elastic/search-ui/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#connectors-and-handlers) that makes 2 separate App Search API calls and condenses the two result sets into a single result set. This will definitely be challenging.
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### Author:  [@JasonStoltz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JasonStoltz)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-to-a-meta-engine-or-to-each-engine-separately-to-get-results-from-each-engine/244554/3 "2020-08-18T11:38:06Z")
@sttevan88,
Actually, just thought of this, you might be able to solve this by using grouping: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/7.8/grouping.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/app-search/7.8/grouping.html). That would let you have 2 sections with 5 posts each, combined into the same set of results.
Jason
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### Author:  [@sttevan88](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sttevan88)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-to-a-meta-engine-or-to-each-engine-separately-to-get-results-from-each-engine/244554/4 "2020-08-18T14:13:38Z")
Thanks @JasonStoltz I will definitely try this approach! But looking at the API ref, it looks promising for my use-case.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/connect-to-a-meta-engine-or-to-each-engine-separately-to-get-results-from-each-engine/244554/5 "2020-09-15T14:13:52Z")
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