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.
I’d like to add to this…
I just recently discovered the ability to change the hide/show collection items property per-collection. So for example, I have a Toy Story collection that houses the 3 movies. I have the default behavior of my movie library set to hide individual titles from collections, so that only the single Toy Story collection poster shows up in the movie list.
I created a Pixar collection, and added the Toy Story movies to it. Because I don’t want to hide one-off movies (e.g. Up, Wall-E, etc.) from my movie list, I changed the show/hide behavior to show individual movies so that these one-off movies still display in my list, but now, as a result, the individual movies are listed; so in my movie list, I see a Toy Story collection poster, as well as the 3 movies.
What I’d like to see, is at the top level of movies, a Toy Story collection, and a Pixar collection; but no individual Toy Story movies. Then, if I click on the Pixar collection, in there I’d like to see again the Toy Story collection…
Hope that makes sense.
I have the same thing happening with my Christmas collection. I don’t want it to hide the single, non-duology/trilogy movies from the entire library.
I agree, this would be a very important addition to the collection feature. My OCD will be eternally grateful!
Please add!
they are not nested, but you can have multiple collections.
example ironman has collection ‘ironman’ and ‘marvel universe’
I strongly want this! Some things I don’t mind multiple collections like say Marvel Cinimatic Universe and individual collections for series. But other things I want nested collections. Godzilla for example. One main Godzilla collection, but within that all the Godzilla sub collections Heisei, Showa, Millenium, Godzilla (Legendary), but also in addition to the collections show Shin Godzilla, and Godzilla (Tri-Star) which are separate from the other collections. Or a main Star Wars Collection, with the Various Star Wars collections nested, or Star Trek main. With nested Original, Next Geneeation, Alternate Universe etc.
Shouldn’t be that hard to add support for a Collection field to collections.
This would be great. I have a few different collection types (collections for films by country, filmmaker collections, decade collections, etc). My collection section is getting a bit cluttered, and it would be great have nested collections for each of my collection types.
This is my number one request. I want to make a disney collection containing all disney movies in their own trilogy collections.
I agree. I would love to be able to have collections within collections. I understand you can have 1 movie in multiple collections but it is much neater to have the master collection E. G Marvel Universe then within that Captain America/Iron Man etc. Or at least if you could have the same option of adding a collection tag to movies but to collections.
This has been open since 2018 and I’ll give it an extra boost because it is sorely needed. What I’ll try to do is explain the 2 main functionalities that should be implemented together to make this work in simple terms.
1) Add Collections to Collections.
Just like the main 2018 post by chubbycheese or additional examples like XyberDAWG. You should be able to select a Trilogy Collection and stick it in a larger collection (e.g. The Man of Steel Series into The Superman Collection, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy into Oscar Nominees/Winners Collection, or Toy Story Trilogy into a Pixar Collection)
2) Finer controls for the Hide/Show property in Collections
What jp.briggs said in 2019 should be highlighted because it’s something I continue running into and would round out the feature request. They say:
I created a Pixar collection, and added the Toy Story movies to it. Because I don’t want to hide one-off movies (e.g. Up, Wall-E, etc.) from my movie list, I changed the show/hide behavior to show individual movies so that these one-off movies still display in my list, but now, as a result, the individual movies are listed; so in my movie list, I see a Toy Story collection poster, as well as the 3 movies
I’ve encountered this, but in a slightly different and infinitely more annoying way. I have collections for every single Academy Awards show. This means that any movie that is part of a Trilogy and is nominated for an Academy Award can’t be hidden. This occurs because the Trilogy Collection has the Hide items in this collection attribute, but it is overridden by the larger Academy Awards Collection, which has the Hide collection attribute that leaves the items within it visible. This results in a slew of Trilogy or Series/Saga/Universe Collections that have one or multiple movies sitting visibly outside them. Example screenshots below showing The Dark Knight Trilogy, of which two films were nominated for separate Academy Awards, and what it ends up looking like.
The solution would be to either:
a) have hierarchical rules so the first setting you apply to a movie isn’t overridden by subsequent settings (e.g. make the Trilogy Collection first, which hides the films, and then any other collection that includes them can’t unhide them) or
b) add one or more attributes that signal to other collections the main settings to preserve (e.g. Hide as part of a Trilogy, Saga, or Series or Hide as a Nested Collection, which would then preserve the hidden/visible attribute even if included in multiple separate collections)
Both of these functionalities (nesting collections and adjusting the hide/show properties) shouldn’t be hard to implement and, given the years that have transpired from the original post, should’ve been added already. Rather than an enhancement, it’s a pretty glaring deficiency in the Collections feature.
Hopefully this gets resolved soon.
Yes! Can’t believe this is not a thing yet!
I keep literally everything inside of collections, all my TV Shows are divided by the Network and i have a huge number of shows in each collection. Collections inside of Collections is a must!
My Big one is for Animated Movies. I’m trying to keep all of my content in a single library so that Collections like Christmas Movies can contain Kid, Family and Adult oriented movies, but this means when I create a collection for Animated Movies and Family Movies in the same library they are really bloated when you open them. There are 14 Land Before Time Movies, 6 Shrek Movies, and many groups do not easily organize by year, or name.
And then you have things like Spiderman that would be completely nested under Marvel, but not totally covered under MCU So having the Spiderman Collection In Marvel, but only part in the MCU collection which is also in Marvel would allow nesting Black Panther, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, Guardians, Any Man, etc, etc, etc
All of this should be attainable by adding the ability to assign a Parent Collection to a Collection. If null, leave the collection rooted at the library level
Adding my voice in support for this. It seems such a simple thing to allow tags on a collection, thereby allowing the collection to be added to a collection or collections. As for the visibility of the items in a collection, let the last tag on the collections line control the behavior of that item.
I too would like to see this implemented 
Like the others before me, I would like to have a MCU collection, and sub-collections withinthat one (Iron Man collection, Thor collection etc).
Thanks a lot !
For the people in here (eg: jp.briggs, chubbycheese + ravero’s posts) encountering the display issues with movies that are in multiple collections (such as having both a Marvel collection and an Iron Man collection, or Pixar and Toy Story), there’s already an active feature request on this (very frustrating!) issue:
There’s a great summary of this issue using the MCU example in that thread, but the heart of the issue is about how hide items should take priority over show items for items that are in multiple collections. (Or to implement an advanced library setting to toggle this behavior, or implement more granular control or even hierarchical display rules)
I don’t mean to take away any merit from the nested collections suggestion, it definitely has its valid use cases and I’m sure I’d use the feature! I only bring this up as I believe these are separate issues. For example, personally I’d like both my Marvel and Iron Man collections to be visible in the library view, and not nested.
I feel like this shouldn’t be too hard to implement. Look at the TV Shows section. What is a TV Show but just a collection of seasons, with each season containing its own episodes. Then you can also add a set of TV Shows to a Collection. So a Collection of Collections of Collections of episodes:
Also, probably deserves its own Feature Request, but I’d like to see the ability for Collections to contain content from both the Movies and TV Shows libraries.
adding my 2 cents, Add Collections to Collections. is greatly needed
My vote for this has to do with Concert Music videos - I collect and archive concert videos that come in two videos as set 1 and set 2. So for example if I want to create within my Music Videos Library a Grateful Dead Collection, I can’t make another collection of the concert date and location that contains the Set 1 and Set 2 videos, so there is double the amount of videos necessary.
I would also like to add my support for this request/functionality.
It would be nice to be able to designate a collection as the parent and be able to put child collections within it.
