# Fixing Collection organization?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/fixing-collection-organization/353707>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [December 27, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fixing-collection-organization/353707 "2018-12-27T23:44:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sethcarstens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@sethcarstens](https://forums.plex.tv/u/sethcarstens)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2018, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fixing-collection-organization/353707/1 "2018-12-27T23:44:30Z")

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I have everything in collections to save space and easier organization (godfather, star wars etc…) But I want some other collections like Christmas, IMDB Top 100, Favorite Movies, Superhero. However, if something is in Star Wars it is hidden, but when you add it to IMDB Top 100 it is now shown…

So I want my library to look like this [https://i.imgur.com/3p7bP4y.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3p7bP4y.jpg). But when I make an IMDB Top 100 Collection, it does this [https://i.imgur.com/8aHj2zw.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8aHj2zw.jpg)

On all the collections I have “Hide Items in this collection” checked. But for this one I have to change it to “Show this collection and its items” [https://i.imgur.com/bROZdZ1.png](https://i.imgur.com/bROZdZ1.png) or the other movies like American Beauty will disappear and only be in the collection.

I want the non collection movies to be in the full movie list and the collection. However, I also want the movies that are already in other collections to stay in those collections and be a part of the new collection.

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**Author:** ![BigWheel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bigwheel/32/78783_2.png) [@BigWheel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BigWheel)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fixing-collection-organization/353707/2 "2018-12-28T00:25:14Z")

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I don’t think that option is available. a movie can only follow one rule afaik. In my tests it always shows the item if one collection it is in says to show it.

moving this to feature suggestions area.

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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:** [December 28, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fixing-collection-organization/353707/3 "2018-12-28T00:40:00Z")

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Hi Sethcarstens – this looks like a duplicate request with more votes. Hence I’ll close yours (also releasing any votes) – please place your vote there in order to avoid fragmentation.

> [@Collection Display Issue](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-display-issue/305406):
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> 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…

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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:** [December 28, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fixing-collection-organization/353707/4 "2018-12-28T00:40:24Z")

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