# Advanced Filter For Collections **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [March 17, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/advanced-filter-for-collections/834852 "2023-03-17T21:06:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skagabomb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Skagabomb](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Skagabomb)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/advanced-filter-for-collections/834852/1 "2023-03-17T21:06:30Z")
We need the ability to utilize advanced filters in the Collections section of movies and shows. While the “metadata” isn’t as robust as individual movies, being able to filter by “Title”, “Sort Title”, and most importantly, “Labels” is missing but is quite essential. This has become a major pain-point when it comes to the sharing restrictions for Plex Home and external users as collections are included in Allowed and Excluded labels - labels that are Allowed or Excluded apparently must be applied to both the movie and the collection it’s in for both to appear in a user’s library. This could be implemented in the Library Advanced filters to also show the Collection, only in the Collection tab, or both of course. To clarify, I do not mean the ability to filter for movies with a specific collection name, but to filter for the collection itself. For example, we can advanced filter for “Collection IS Indiana Jones Collection” but we can’t advanced filter for “Indiana Jones Collection label IS \_\_\_\_” A better example is, you may have a young user that you want to filter age appropriate movies for so you’ve utilized the label “kids”. You’ve labelled various movies as such and want them to also have access to the corresponding collections (maybe you’ve also created a Disney Smart Collection along with the auto-created Aladdin Collection). If the “kids” label has not been applied to the collection, it will not show in the library, nor is there any way to see which collections these labels have been applied to. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/advanced-filter-for-collections/834852/2 "2023-03-17T22:06:53Z")
There’s an existing feature suggestion discussing an option to filter collections in the collections tab. I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. > [@Sort/filter the collections tab](https://forums.plex.tv/t/sort-filter-the-collections-page/729078): > > This is a request to sort/filter collections, NOT items within collections. Currently, collections are sorted alphabetically, with no additional options. It would be useful to be able to sort my collections in order to find those with zero items, those with the most items, or those which were updated most recently. In addition, filtering would allow me to determine which collections have different content ratings or share labels. As it is now, if I want to figure out which collections have bee… # Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2023, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/advanced-filter-for-collections/834852/3 "2023-03-18T19:58:32Z")
2023 clean-up: duplicate