Bug: Smart Collections not respecting sorting based on ADMIN watch date

[jeremyfrankly]

I had added a Smart Collection called “Jeremy’s Been Enjoying” to my users’ home screen that displayed movies (a second one for series too) I’d rated 4+ stars, showing what I’ve seen most recently.

I only recently learned that it had always been broken, and was sorting my rated movies by the USER’S date viewed, so it only showed stuff they’d recently watched.

I had set the Smart Collection filtering to be based on the Admin account, which gives rating, play count, and watched status as examples and I assumed watched date would be included. It seems like it isn’t.

Can this be added to that option so that it works?

[OttoKerner]

This is not a feature request, but a bug report.

I have tried to recreate the issue, but it works exactly as intended.

Collection filter definition, created under the server owner’s account:

Setting to use the server owner’s “watched” status:

Collection is “published” to be visible on shared user’s home page

Result on the Home page of one of my managed users:

(this user has to have access permission to the library wherein the collection has been created, of course.)

And no, this managed user has not watched these movies, yet:

[jeremyfrankly]

Please see this screen recording of the issue [had to host on Imgur]. Note that I navigate to Account just to show I’m the admin

[OttoKerner]

Do you have something in this input field in your Network server configuration?
“List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth”

If you do, use a Plex client which is not inside your home network to test the access permissions of external users.

[jeremyfrankly]

I’ve confirmed in a previous test using the same set up from external users that it was experiencing the same issue

[jeremyfrankly]

I just posted this as a bug, not realizing you may have moved it.

Either way, here’s better screen captures of non-network users not seeing it properly displayed

Screen capture: admin account creates the smart collection [YouTube]

Screen capture: user account not on shared network sees different collection order [YouTube]

Additional evidence: screenshot of what another external user sees