Similar to what I’d like. Not sure if it’s just a settings change like above.
I have “Disney” and “Cars”
Would like to have Cars as a subfolder within Disney. So neither the Cars movies nor the Cars collection show up in the main library but Disney does.
Currently I can hide the movies but not the collection as well. If I try hide the collection, the movies show up.
My case is similar. I have the Star Wars movies all in a Star Wars collection, but I also have a collection for the AFI 100 Years, 100 Films. I don’t want this collection to hide the individual movies, but because it includes A New Hope, the original Star Wars movie displays along side the Star Wars collection that properly hides the others.
Even if I hide the AFI collection so that it only displays when you choose the Collections view, it still forces A New Hope to display by itself.
just double-checking feature suggestions…
are you specifically looking for a per-conflict override / prioritization or a general rule to prioritize e.g. “hidden” setting over “show items”/“show collection and its items” as e.g. requested here (2 merged requests):
My suggestion would be to add a ‘Hide in Main List’ option within individual movie options.
This way, I could add ‘Home Alone’ movies to a ‘Home Alone’ collection and hide them within that collection- then add them to a ‘Christmas Collection’ without hiding movies in that collection. Then I would got to each Home Alone film (or select all at once) and go to Edit > Advanced > Hide in Main (?) List.
The option could also be simplified to ‘Only show in collections’
I think this would pretty much solve the issue for me as well while staying quite agile. Just add a visibility rule, so the individual culprits can be moved into a hidden movie section or filtered by only show in collections and the rest will then work out of the box.
Alternatively, many recommendations mentioned in the thread also seem like an elegant solution.
A way to set the priority of a collections mode would be great, meaning, if an item is in multiple collections, and one collection has “hide items in this collection” and the other has “show collection and its items” then we can use the higher priority collection mode to decide whether the movie shows or hides.
Example usage:
I have a collection containing all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, as well as a collection for each specific franchise, such as Thor, I want to be able to show the movies from the MCU collection in the main movies list, but hide just the ones that are in the Thor collection from the main movies list.
Marvel Cinematic Universe - Show collection and its items - priority 0
Thor - Hide items in this collection - Priority 1
This way I am able to group all items under “Thor” in their own collection rather than individual movies, while being able to still show solo MCU movies in the movies list which don’t fit into their own sub-collection.
