Director collection (defaults)

[grim cairn]

Hi,

I am struggling to understand how to use <<director_name>>. I am trying to achieve creating a collection of one specific director. How do I go about doing this using the director default.

[obsidian mica]

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[mossy gorge]

The director default is probably overkill for this, but presumably something like:

libraries:
  Movies:
    metadata_path:
      - pmm: director
        template_variables:
          data:
            depth: 10
            limit: 1
          include:
            Alan Smithee

[grim cairn]

I understand. I wish to use radarr_add_missing with this specific director. Is there a better way to do this? Is it just overkill or are there performance issues in doing this with the default as opposed to using a builder like mdblist?

[mossy gorge]

Well, this isn't going to work for that purpose, since this is looking at movies that you already have in Plex.

If you want to fill in movies directed by Alan Smithee that you don't already have, you'll have to use an external list of some kind.

But leaving aside the Radarr part, this construction would look at every movie in the library, building a list of directors, then throw all that work out and build one collection for Alan Smithee.

[grim cairn]

Thanks for clearing that up. That wasn't so clear in the wiki on account of this line under the directors default.

[mossy gorge]

Well, sure, they're available, but they may not all actually apply

Note the top of the page; "in your library":

[grim cairn]

Yep I see that reading the first line under the directors default in wiki. It clearly states in your library

[mossy gorge]

Most [if not all] of the default collections that act on an attribute of a thing [actor, director, resolution, genre, language, etc.] are looking only at the contents of your library.

The things that track external things like franchises, top-tens, etc are based on external lists, and those would generate missing things to send to Radarr.

You could also of course create your own Alan Smithee list at MDBlist or the like and feed that into PMM.

[grim cairn]

Thanks for the help