Collections Help

[lofty thicket]

Comedies is not being created by Kometa, it complains that Rom Coms doesn't exist, so I assumed because it was the first run and Kometa had just created Rom Coms, so I ran it again and it still complained and did not create Comedies

[subtle kestrel]

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[subtle kestrel]

✅ YAML validation passed!! That is valid YAML, but may not meet Kometa's requirements

[subtle kestrel]

✅ YAML validation passed!! That is valid YAML, but may not meet Kometa's requirements

[vapid zodiac]

Providing Log Files

1: Go to your config folder

2: Go into the logs folder

3: Look for meta.log (not meta.1.log etc)

4: Drag it in the Discord thread - the whole thing, DO NOT EDIT IT

5: Still confused? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Log file too big? USE PASTEBIN or ZIP THE FILE

Thanks for using Kometa

[tawdry geyser]

Can you please provide the full log showing the error[s] in context?

[spark vale]

This kind of logic won't work

When you use a smart filter, the items don't actually "belong" to the collection, it's just a filter of your entire library to show you things that match the criteria.

So when you are saying in your Comedies collection, "show me items which are not in the Rom Coms collection", there are technically 0 items in that collection because it is a Smart Filter collection.

The way around this is to label your items when they meet the criteria and use that label as your .not criteria:

collections:
  Musicals:
    item_label: Musicals
    # your builder criteria here
  Rom Coms:
    item_label: RomComs
    smart_filter:
      all:
        genre:
          - comedy
          - romance
        label.not:
          - Musicals

  Comedies:
    item_label: Comedies
    smart_filter:
      all:
        genre: comedy
        label.not:
          - Musicals
          - RomComs

Or you convert it to a Dumb collection, but that means it won't update until you run Kometa again.

Also worth noting that those genres are case-sensitive, so comedy vs Comedy and romance vs Romance

[subtle kestrel]

✅ YAML validation passed!! That is valid YAML, but may not meet Kometa's requirements

[lofty thicket]

Ah! I see. This makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the help!