# Collection within a collection **URL:** \ **Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\ **Tags:** server-windows\ **Created:** [May 18, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-within-a-collection/591960 "2020-05-18T12:36:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chris\_workman89\_gmail\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@chris\_workman89\_gmail\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/chris_workman89_gmail_com)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-within-a-collection/591960/1 "2020-05-18T12:36:41Z")
Server Version#:1.19.3.2764 I’m loving the advanced settings for collections as it let’s me collapse a series into one item in the movies library, but I have one issue. I want to make an “Aladdin” collection with movie 1-3 in it and hide the movie so only the collections will be visible…ok, no problem so far. But then I also want to add those movies to a bigger collection called “Disney Classic Animations”. I don’t want to see this collection in the library, only to use it as a filter. The issue is, as soon as I tag the Aladdin movies in any other collection, they re-appear as individual movies in my library. Am I doing something wrong? Would you organize it differently? I wish entire collections could be tagged into larger collections. That way the “Aladdin” collection would show up in the movies library AND the “Disney Classic Animations” collection as one unit (not 3 separate movies). Aladdin is just one example. I’m running into this issue a lot. Iron Man x3 (collection) Thor x3 (collection) Avengers x3 (collection) all under the Marvel Cinematic Universe collection Batman Trilogy (collection) under the DC Superheroes collection Ghibli Films x9 (collection) under the Japanese Anime collection See what I mean? In every case the smaller collection is to condense files in the movies library and the larger collection is purely for filtering, but I can’t get it to work the way I want. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Cheers ---
**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:** [May 18, 2020, 12:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-within-a-collection/591960/2 "2020-05-18T12:43:53Z")
There’s a feature suggestion / request for that. Currently, Plex prioritizes the setting for displaying items over that of hiding them. So if you set the Disney collection to show all its items, this will automatically also override the “hide items” setting for those that are in the Aladdin collection. > [@Collection Display Issue](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-display-issue/305406): > > It’s not a full feature request but there seems to be some issue with current per collection viewing rule for current implementation. For example, The Return of the King is part of Lord of the Rings collection as well as Oscar Best Picture collection in my case. I’d rather hide individual items for Lord of the Rings collection. But I don’t want to do the same for movies on Oscar Best Picture collection for obvious reasons. This creates two conflicting collection rules, resulting Return of the… ---
**Author:** ![chris\_workman89\_gmail\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@chris\_workman89\_gmail\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/chris_workman89_gmail_com)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-within-a-collection/591960/3 "2020-05-18T13:20:24Z")
tom80H, Thanks for pointing me to the discussion. I added my 2 cents on that thread as well. ---
**Author:** ![Popupkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@Popupkiller](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Popupkiller)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-within-a-collection/591960/4 "2020-06-28T13:19:14Z")
There is also the Nested Collections feature request: > [@Nested Collections](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nested-collections/354043): > > A nice feature(for me at least) would be to have collections inside collections. For example. Have one overall collection called Star Wars, with the Prequel, OG, and new trilogy collections inside of it. Same kind of thing for the LotR/Hobbit movies. I’m sure others will find other uses for it. Maybe genre collections, actor collections, etc. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-within-a-collection/591960/5 "2020-09-26T13:19:35Z")
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