I can’t figure out how to search all shared libraries simultaneously. It becomes a hassle when you’re looking for one specific show that you know one user has and you have to search each library individually. Help please. 
Im looking into a global search option also since I have a ton of shared servers. I asked awhile on this but I believe the issue then was it would show multiples. I wouldn't mind multiples since sometimes the shared servers have issues with buffering the content so I would be able to just pick another identical Movie or show on a different shared PMS. I believe adding this as a optional feature would be great so I will look into adding it to my fork maybe then it could be added to iBaa's or to custom themes if it can be worked out/desired by the dev's.
That would be wonderful. Thank you for taking this into consideration. I am sure it would be a handy feature for many! Please keep us posted. We appreciate your hard work and it doesn't go unnoticed!
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I don’t use the Apple client, but every other client I’ve used has an option in the settings to allow for searching of shared libraries
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I almost have it (I think), keep getting no servers in proximity tho. I also have it in the Navbar :) I just added this to /PlexConnect/assets/templates/PlexConnect.xml. I think baseURL it taking me back to far in the Entry.xml. :wacko:
{{TEXT(Search All)}}
{{URL(:::PlexConnect=Search_Entry)}}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etnfAz1sNH8
Nice work, search in the nav bar is a great addition too.I almost have it (I think), keep getting no servers in proximity tho. I also have it in the Navbar :) I just added this to /PlexConnect/assets/templates/PlexConnect.xml. I think baseURL it taking me back to far in the Entry.xml. :wacko:
{{TEXT(Search All)}} {{URL(:::PlexConnect=Search_Entry)}}https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etnfAz1sNH8
Sweet. I'm getting so excited for this!!! :-) Now just for that final piece of the puzzle! Good Luck!!
I tried making an additional xml but I haven't been able to get it to detect any servers properly. I obviously want to search all local and shared that pms offers. I would imagine you need to enable searching shared libraries in pms as well but it had been enabled prior to me attempting this. I also made a way to stick all libraries (local and shared) into one tab which gave me another spot in my navbar so this would be a nice tab since I have a free tab open now that I have merged all the libraries into one tab thanks to cyberghost84 helping me get the rest of the views working. But I'm not sure how to have it search the proper place, I tried for a few hours with a ton of strings but nothing seemed to work. Hopefully someone can point us in the right direction to have this as an option. Pms offers it so why aren't we using pms to its full potential if desired? But yes, hopefully this is a step in the right direction and can solved eventually.
{{TEXT(Search All)}} {{URL(:::PlexConnect=Search_Entry)}}
That can't work... you got to make your URL look something like this:
{{URL(:/PMS(all)/channels/all::PlexConnect=Search_Global)}}
Plus create a "server aware" version of the search / response XML...
That's funny I thought of the same name for it. What would I use for the PlexConnect.xml? This
https://github.com/wahlmanj3/PlexConnect/commit/81bc93804a47b9f8cbc10033294d3c977c525927
{{URL(:/PMS(all)::PlexConnect=Search_Global)}}
Or what does it need in the url to search all pms. This:
{{URL(:/PMS(all)/all::PlexConnect=Search_Global)}}
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{{URL(:/search::type=4&query=)}}
How would I make a server aware Global.xml? Do I still use the same baseURL or does it need to be modified to search globally with a different string? This is where I'm stuck and could use some assistance for the proper url for PlexConnect.xml and how to make a server aware Global.xml.
still can't get it to work tho. :(
Hello. Just curious, how is this project holding up? Any progress on ironing out the kinks?
Put in a pull request here:
https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/pull/313
Unfortunately I couldn't figure it out any further so I uploaded what work I had accomplished to there and now i'm gonna leave it to the pro's. ;)
I did get the BigGrid (huge posters) and Merge all libraries (owned & shared) working but not the Global search.
Okay. Thanks for the update. I wish had the knowledge to help with it.
Perhaps it would be better to see if there is any plugin (or Plex channel) that can do this. If it can be implemented on the "PMS side" than all "Plex clients" would benefit.
Perhaps it would be better to see if there is any plugin (or Plex channel) that can do this. If it can be implemented on the "PMS side" than all "Plex clients" would benefit.
I checked all the plugins and didn't see anything. It would be so awesome if we could get this working! I appreciate the efforts wahlman.j has set in motion but I think it has come to a stall.
Has anyone been able to figure out how to search all Shared Libraries at once? I know how to search each one individually, but this is very tedious as I am connected to 50+ servers.
Is this what I think it is?!?
https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect/commit/7d35c201d445fc422807c904418f8a9755289f35
Edit - Bad a$$! Now I can search all my local and shared lib's simultaneously! Thank you!
edit 2 - Added to my theme also, works perfect :)
edit 3 - Looks like CyberGhost added it to his theme also.
Cool Beans. Thanks for the fix/feature! Can’t wait to try it when my theme gets updated.
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