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In a previous post I discussed my mdblists. I wound up shutting down all but the current Best of 2020s, but now the placement is wrong. Can someone help with a workaround to get it to the top of my Best of the Decades position? Screenshot, Playlist and config posted.
pearl jacinth
@empty yarrow Set the sort title on the collection to put it wherever you want it in the list. Plex displays these in alpha order by sort titles. There's nothing to "work around"; you need to configure the collection to do what it is you want.
pearl jacinth
pearl jacinth
What are the sort titles of the 2020s and the 2010s collections?
empty yarrow
The problem is I deleted the other best of decades lists on mdb. They were previously created and in a previous thread I discussed the issue that I needed to add a 2020s and remove others and you were correct the other collections have remained after shutting down the playlist entries. Un lookub at my bestofdecades.yml I see nothing that put them in any order in the past.
pearl jacinth
The order in plex has nothing to do with the lists in mdblist.
What are the sort titles of the 2020s and the 2010s collections?
The one and only thing that affects the order the collections appear in the Plex UI is the sort title.
empty yarrow
Also I am not married to mdb. Any suggestion on an agrregator ranking? I just want movies ranked by an average score because I don't love any ranking system in particular.
empty yarrow
The one and only thing that affects the order the collections appear in the Plex...
I am dense. I am not understanding "the sort title" . I know of no "sort title" I included the playlist and I see no sort title. I guess that's why I am here, lol. I am stumped.
pearl jacinth
You want to move this collection to the X, correct?
The only thing that affects that is this sort title:
It has absolutely nothing to do with the list that the collection is based on, whether that list exists or not, or anything other than this sort title.
If you want that "Best of the 2020s" collection to appear in the UI between "Otrher Audio" and "2010's Films Best of...", then you will need to give it a sort title that is alphabetically between the sort titles of those two collections.
If you will give me the sort titles of the three collections in question, I can help you determine what that will need to be.
For example, here are three collections in my library.
the only reason they are in this order iis their sort titles:
empty yarrow
I checked plex. Each decade collection has this in it Both 2010 and 2020 - +001_Best of <<best of decade>>. Other audio has !1100_~Other Audio
pearl jacinth
If I change that sort title on the IMDB one:
Now it's in between. I haven't changed the source or the list or anything other that that one field.
pearl jacinth
I checked plex. Each decade collection has this in it Both 2010 and 2020 - +00...
Can you provide screenshots of the three sort titles? Discord is messing with the formatting of what you are typing.
Are the sort titles of those collections literally +001_Best of <<best of decade>>, as in they are the same?
If that's the case, then it's just luck that they are in the order they are in.
empty yarrow
Attached
pearl jacinth
The reason for this is in your template:
templates:
Best of Decade:
sort_title: +001_Best of <<best of decade>>
collections:
2020's Films Best of Collection:
template: {name: Best of Decade}
You are using <<best of decade>> as a variable, but you aren't setting it to anything.
empty yarrow
I am happy with the sort order of 2010 to 1930. Just need to stick 2020s in front.
pearl jacinth
Then you need to change the sort titles of all of them to accomplish that.
Collection: Sort title:
2020s +001_Best of 00
2010s +001_Best of 01
1990s +001_Best of 02
1980s +001_Best of 03
1970s +001_Best of 04
1960s +001_Best of 05
1950s +001_Best of 06
1940s +001_Best of 07
1930s +001_Best of 08
1920s +001_Best of 09
That will put them in the order you want
But the reason they all have meaningless sort titles is in your template definition as shown above.
empty yarrow
Yep, understood.
pearl jacinth
It should be something like:
templates:
Best of Decade:
sort_title: +001_Best of <<order>>
collections:
2020's Films Best of Collection:
template: {name: Best of Decade, order: 00}
# stuff
2010's Films Best of Collection:
template: {name: Best of Decade, order: 01}
# stuff
2000's Films Best of Collection:
template: {name: Best of Decade, order: 02}
# stuff
...
There is one thing and one thing only that affects the order in which the collections appear in the UI:
If you have multiple collections with the same sort title then it's up to Plex to decide the order in which those things appear. It looks like it might use the order in which they were created.
empty yarrow
Fantastic. Fixed and much appreciated. BTW ranking films be decades is one of my favorite collections. Great way to searc for a movie to watch. Kometa made it possible.
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