# Nested collections for Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** library-management\ **Created:** [May 17, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nested-collections-for-movies/877847 "2024-05-17T15:54:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![messinara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@messinara](https://forums.plex.tv/u/messinara)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nested-collections-for-movies/877847/1 "2024-05-17T15:54:38Z")
Hello, I am extremely new to the community (though have been using Plex for many years). I would LOVE to have the functionality to nest collections within collections, though (as far as I can tell) this is not currently possible. I can imagine _ **numerous** _ use-cases for this that I would take advantage of, but two examples would be 1. a Star Wars (or Star Trek) collection; within that collection I would like to have a (“sub”) collection of original episodes, and a separate for the First Order (or alternate reality) movies. 2. Another might be to have a collection of Disney movies for my children, and within that collection, separate (sub)collections for Disney Nature, or a (sub)collection for Toy Story movies, etc. I know that I could potentially use Plex Categories, to achieve something similar to what I have described (well, not really!), though honestly I find the functionality of collections (eg; to add posters and other artwork and content) so great to work with that having nested collections would transform my movies organization in Plex into something incredible!. Lastly, I believe “Plex Meta Manager” can achieve this, though frankly I do not know if my coding skills would be sharp enough to achieve it without ruining my Plex DB. ---
**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 17, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nested-collections-for-movies/877847/2 "2024-05-17T16:02:00Z")
There’s already an existing suggestion discussing an option to have nested collections. Please comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate. > [@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:** ![messinara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@messinara](https://forums.plex.tv/u/messinara)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2024, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nested-collections-for-movies/877847/3 "2024-05-17T16:06:44Z")
> [@messinara](#): > > Hello, I am extremely new to the community (though have been using Plex for many years). > I would LOVE to have the functionality to nest collections within collections, though (as far as I can tell) this is not currently possible. I can imagine _ **numerous** _ use-cases for this that I would take advantage of, but two examples would be > > 1. a Star Wars (or Star Trek) collection; within that collection I would like to have a (“sub”) collection of original episodes, and a separate for the First Order (or alternate reality) movies. > 2. Another might be to have a collection of Disney movies for my children, and within that collection, separate (sub)collections for Disney Nature, or a (sub)collection for Toy Story movies, etc. > > I know that I could potentially use Plex Categories, to achieve something similar to what I have described (well, not really!), though honestly I find the functionality of collections (eg; to add posters and other artwork and content) so great to work with that having nested collections would transform my movies organization in Plex into something incredible!. > > Lastly, I believe “Plex Meta Manager” can achieve this, though frankly I do not know if my coding skills would be sharp enough to achieve it without ruining my Plex DB. Yes, sorry I am very new (as I mentioned). I just voted on that suggestion and will add my comments to that post, so please feel free to delete mine. ---
**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 17, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/nested-collections-for-movies/877847/4 "2024-05-17T16:14:36Z")
2024 clean-up: duplicate