Inane question - can I sort Bond Films in order

[boe_d]

Hello,

This is the least important question I hope to ask here but I have my movies organized by categories that help me pick a movie. For example I have all my James Bond movies in their own category and the same for MCU films. I’m curious if I could have them sorted by date without putting a number 1,2 etc in front of them.

It may be obvious or not an option but I’d like to know. It would be awesome for the Marvel Universe films if I could display them in chronological time line order vs. date or name order.

[SE56]

This can be achieved by the Sort field in Titles Edit settings. (Library view)

You can use Letters, Numerals, Names or a combination of these.

Another method that comes to mind, Collection and or create a Collection

Creating a Collection is as simple as creating Collection tag to each Title of the Collection.

Then you have the option In Library settings / Advanced. To set your preference of appearance in your Library.

A cool place to find Collection Posters.

https://plexcollectionposters.com/

There are other places found with a search.

A sample of a Friends Library Totally built with Collections.

Looks great doesn’t it.

[FordGuy61]

For Bond movies I use Bond <year>. The year is shown in the Edit window. I don’t have to look up the movie number in Wikipedia, etc. Also, when viewing the library by title, they’re sorted as Bond, not as Goldfinger, Thunderball, etc.

For movies not released in chronological order I use 1,2,3 (ex: Star Wars).

[Elijah_Baley]

That is exactly what I do but I do not bother with the <> around the year. So my Bond sort fields are like: “Bond 1964” (for Goldfinger)

Also I use numbers for movies that aired out of chronological order for the given movie series like “Star Wars” and “The Hobbit” series so the sort field there looks like “Star Wars 3”
BTW: if on the non-chronological movie series when they release a movie that should be between other movies I add a decimal place.
That is I end up with numbering like:
Star Wars 3
Star Wars 3.5 for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
Star Wars 4

[boe_d]

Great info! Thanks!!

[FordGuy61]

@Elijah_Baley

Star Wars 3
Star Wars 3.5 for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
Star Wars 4

I do the same as you for both Bond & Star Wars. You did a much better job of explaining it.

[boe_d]

@SE56

Titles Edit settings

Thanks for the various methods, I tried collection, now I’m trying the sort order.

They both work great! Is there a way to flip between sort order by name and by sort tag? I would probably want all the MCU movies in both orders.

[SE56]

I gather what your asking is to easierly switch between. Once you have created sort order ( Library order) and have collections and items enabled. You go to collection and there you alter from Release date order to Name sort order via Edit Sort Title, within Collection.

I hope that is what your requesting.
Another method is to have a Library by date released called Films (By Date) and another Library as Films ( Alphabetical).

Or as Plex intended:

[boe_d]

Thanks! So many shiny objects - I get distracted easily! I have mine sorted by folders (easy for me to organize movies by the genre I think they are in) If you do it that way unfortunately I don’t see the sort option.

If that sort option was there in collections or folder view it would be great. Also there needs to be sort by title vs. sort by sort title - if I show all movies my bond movies come out first because of their sort title.

[SE56]

You can create Collections by any name be it Action Drama, Comedy and so on…

In the collections you sort any way you wish.

[boe_d]

Sorry - I think I’m doing it wrong - I set up the group. I’ve put their sort title as just a number.

Where do I go when viewing my collections to change from sort title order to just title order?

I run into the same sort dilemma when sorting by folders and putting all the movies in what I consider a genre into the same folder

I’m not complaining - just trying to figure it out as I’m sure others would have come across this before.

[OttoKerner]

@pluxology

where are you pulling the collection description text from?

This description comes automatically from TheMovieDB, if the collection info is fetched from there.

Due to the rules of TMDB, only direct prequels and sequels come in these automatic collections.
If you create your own collections which violate this rule, you’ll have to provide poster and description for the collection yourself.

[OttoKerner]

Then the last sentence applies.

The description in the screenshot appears to be the one on TMDB James Bond Collection — The Movie Database (TMDb)