# Collection Feature "EXPLAINED" **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [January 4, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-feature-explained/174337 "2017-01-04T18:25:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simpleIT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/simpleit/32/102570_2.png) [@simpleIT](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simpleIT)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-feature-explained/174337/1 "2017-01-04T18:25:39Z")
Collections aren’t implemented to their fullest potential in Plex yet. I think what most people would expect (myself included) would be for a collection to show up as a single movie poster that acts as a container for the movies in that collection. This way, you could group, for example, all the Star Wars movies together and not have them take up 6 positions in the list of movies. I saw on the plex forums that this feature was requested ages ago, but still isn’t implemented, so who knows when/if we’ll see it. Collections are mostly useless without it imo. **Here are the most popular forum threads, please vote yes** [Popular] Collection overhaul ideas (Notice: [Popular] I guest this means Plex has taken notice) > **[\[Popular\] Collection overhaul ideas](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/152418/popular-collection-overhaul-ideas#latest)** > > I'd like to propose an overhaul for a feature that is very underutilized, collection feature. Instead of using collection as a mere filtering tool, I think it would be cool to see a tree-structured collection. This allows users to pool media that are... Movie Collections > **[Movie Collections](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/81160/movie-collections#latest)** > > It would be awesome if there was a way to group movies for instance all bond movies or all harry potter movies under one icon that breaks out with all the movies.... also there should be a way to manually sort these "folders" by movie order rather... Auto Movie Collections > **[Auto Movie Collections](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/46190/auto-movie-collections#latest)** > > I really would like to have the option to autosort movies into Movie Sets and list them in the clients in the “All Movies” section as collections (Not the manual PMS Collection feature). e.g. James Bond, Harry Potter, Terminator, … ... Thanks m4dh4xx0r @reddit.com ---
**Author:** ![sremick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/sremick/32/4480_2.png) [@sremick](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sremick)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-feature-explained/174337/2 "2017-01-06T22:03:08Z")
Users: “We want X!” Plex: (only has Y and Z) Plex: (redefines “X” as meaning (1/2_Y+pi_Z)/A with a bit of B and C thrown in on every other Tuesday) Plex: “We have X already! See? Aren’t we so wonderful? Enjoy!” ---
**Author:** ![beckfield](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/beckfield/32/7227_2.png) [@beckfield](https://forums.plex.tv/u/beckfield)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-feature-explained/174337/3 "2017-01-06T22:33:57Z")
It should be noted that all those threads are in the Feature Request Voting forum, which is only accessible to Plex Pass holders. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-feature-explained/174337/4 "2020-01-07T22:32:17Z")
Closed on January 7, 2020, 10:32pm UTC