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. |
