pliant bough
Hi all, trying to "hide" collections of franchises, but "show" individual non-franchise films that are in collections of genre/top 250/etc. My idea was to set all collections to "hide" then make a hidden smart collection of all non-franchise films to "show." However, I can't seem to figure out how to add a "franchise" label to franchise collections.
I tried this but no luck:
item_label: franchise```
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scarlet blaze
i don't think that option is exposed in the defaults
pliant bough
Is there a better way to achieve the same concept or can I "expose" it somehow, brand new to all this. Guides have been incredible and really well organized.
This has been my only snag and it's not really even PMM's fault, but Plex's weird collections handling.
scarlet blaze
no, the defaults don't show that as an available option. at least not in the wiki from what i can tell
pliant bough
Could I add franchises to an additional collection perhaps?
weary rock
I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what you want to do.
You want to hide every movie from your library except those that meet ?? criteria?
pliant bough
I'm trying to "hide" any films that are part of movie franchises/series (so my library list is condensed) - obviously the only way to do that in plex is through collections.
However, if a movie is both part of a franchise and in another collection (ie: Alien is apart of the Alien Franchise AND in the imdb top 250), if I hide items in that imdb top 250 collection, it will hide a bunch of individual/non-franchise films.
If I show items in that imdb top 250 collection, Alien 1 will hang outside its collection, but the rest of the films in the series will condense into the collection as plex makes "show" override any hides
Hopefully that makes it more clear
weary rock
So in that scenario what do you want to have happen to Alien?
pliant bough
In that scenario, I would want Alien to condense into its Franchise collection AND have the individual top 250 films (say, 12 angry men) SHOW in the library
weary rock
Should Alien be visible in the library or not?
pliant bough
Alien as an individual film should not be visible. Only its franchise collection - ideally.
weary rock
I don't know of a way to do that offhand.
pliant bough
You can do it manually by making a smart playlist of all non-franchise films. Then setting those to "show"
So I will "hide" all other collections, and only that one will "show"
it's wonky, but as far as I can tell in my research the only way you can get plex to behave that way
weary rock
Some options:
make a copy of the franchise default YAML and modify it to set the label yout want.
Write a collection definition that applies a label to things that are in a list of franchise collections that you would define.
pliant bough
This post is trying to do the same thing and where I got the idea:
By default it's not setting any label though right, it's only tagging it in a collection tag, right (I could be completely wrong here)?
weary rock
Correct. It wouldn't be setting a single label across all those collections.
pliant bough
Ok that's even better
weary rock
You could modify the YAML to do that.
pliant bough
It shouldn't be setting any label across any collection (I think)
weary rock
I don't know what that means.
pliant bough
That would be sick!
weary rock
However, by doing so you are taking responsibility for keeping your copy of that core file up to date.
pliant bough
From what I understand, collections aren't "labels" they are "tags":
Labels are their own world
weary rock
dumb collections, yes, they are tags. If the franchise collections are dumb collections you could use those tags to identify your things.
pliant bough
I know nothing though so I could be wrong
That's really cool, thank you for the education here
When you say edit the "franchise" yaml, is that in my standard "config.yaml" or is that its own thing?
scarlet blaze
would't recommend editing the franchise yml, but create a local copy
pliant bough
I assume it would get overwritten on update?
weary rock
NO, it will throw an error on update.
pliant bough
uh oh haha
weary rock
Which is not hard to deal with if you are familiar with git, so if that is you go ahead as you know what would be involved.
If that is not you, then make a copy in your config folder and edit that.
pliant bough
Maybe I could edit all collections but franchises to have a different sort name or something... hmm
definitely not me I'm an idiot
weary rock
I don't understand how that helps this situation, and in any case that's already exposed as a template variable.
pliant bough
I could use that as a filtering mechanism rather than the label maybe
So all non-franchise collections get appended with a 0_ or something
weary rock
They already are.
weary rock
All default collections but franchise have sort titles that match a pattern
pliant bough
let me try that, that might work
weary rock
That won't help with franchise.
pliant bough
yeah damn you can't do "contains" or even look on sort titles
for smart collections
mint perch
Don't the franchise collections have the "TMDB Collection" label? and the "!035" section sort title? Could you base it off that?
scarlet blaze
Don't the franchise collections have the "TMDB Collection" label? and the "!035...
no, they may hve the tmdb collection label, but do not have a section
pliant bough
May totally be possible within PMM but I'm like a couple hours of expertise deep so I have no idea
not possible in plex itself though
maybe just adding to the movie name?
Like a hidden character
Can PMM do that through the franchise collection? Changing a movie name?
mint perch
no, they may hve the tmdb collection label, but do not have a section
But you can set the collection section. Is there a way to search that?
pliant bough
As far as I can tell, within plex, there's only 2 options "is" or "is not"
for collections
but if I could add a special character to franchise films in the film title, I could search on that
You know I think a "close enough" solution is to just manually add franchise labels to those "non-smart" collections. That's really not too bad honestly.
As the issue is only present in "non-smart" collections
weary rock
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