# Collection Display Issue

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-display-issue/305406>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [September 6, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-display-issue/305406 "2018-09-06T18:46:07Z")\
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**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:** [October 8, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-display-issue/305406/4 "2018-10-08T00:12:18Z")

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This is about how Plex handles e.g. movies which are part of multiple collections with conflicting display settings.

My default setting is to hide items of a collection. This definitely works great for franchise collections (such as `Iron Man`, `The Matrix`, `Star Wars`…) – not so much for other clusters such as `Oscar Winners` or studio based collections such as `Pixar`/`Studio Ghibli` movies. For those I do like to see the individual movies on top of the collection.  
One of the updates earlier this year added the functionality to override display/visibility settings for individual collections ( **great addition – thank you!** ).

**Here comes the catch…**  
Things go wrong when you start having movies that are part of multiple collections.  
With my library configured to hide items of a collection, having a separate collection which is configured to deviate from that setting results in all items to be displayed no matter what (+ their collections).

**Example:**

- Collections (`hide items`)
  - `Iron Man` (containing Iron Man 1-3)
  - `Captain America` (containing Captain America 1-3)
  - `Thor` (containing Thor 1-3)

- Cluster Collection (`show collection and its items`)
  - `Marvel Cinematic Universe` (containing Iron Man 1-3, Captain America 1-3, Thor 1-3, Doctor Strange and Spider Man Homecoming)

I would like to see that the `hide items` setting overrides the `show items`/`show collection and its items` settings. So as long as a movie is in a group that tells it to hide, this should be the rule.

| Item | Expected Result | Current Result | Comment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Iron Man`, `Captain America` and `Thor` collections | visible | visible | |
| `Iron Man 1-3`, `Captain America 1-3` and `Thor 1-3` movies | hidden | visible | all those movies have a collection of their own which overrides the `display items` of the `Marvel Cinematic Universe` collection. |
| `Marvel Cinematic Universe` collection | visible | visible | |
| `Doctor Strange` and `Spider Man: Homecoming` movies | visible | visible | these 2 movies are not part of another collection. |

Mod Edit: merged feature request on same topic to merge/free-up votes.

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