This is an feature that needs to be implemented urgently.
It would make the collections much more ergonomic and would facilitate the navigation and readability when you already have many collections.
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Collections in general need to be enhanced.
I do not like that hidden collections force the always show flag on the items in that collection. There should be an option to hide collection that does not force a show/hide flag at all. You could literally change the name of the current hide collection option to āhide collection & show itemsā, and then make a new āhide collection onlyā option that does not force a hide/show flag on its items at all (allowing other collections to hide the item if the hide items option for that collection is set).
OR, just make the default behavior so that if any collection that an item belongs to has the hide items flag set, the items in that collection will always be hidden, no matter what other collection it belongs to is set to. I do not logically understand why this isnāt already the default behavior.
I can not understand a use case that would want it any other way, and even if there was, just add a āhide collection & show itemsā option to collections, but more importantly have the much more useful āhide collection onlyā option (that does not currently exist for some maddening reason) along with it.
Plex please I would do anything for nested collections. I really like to keep my stuff organized and itās so annoying that I canāt group related items in a larger overall collection
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I would also love this, and in a similar vein, playlist folders (or collections, or really any support for organizing playlists)! 
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Yes. This is my #1 issue with Plex! Nested collections is a must!
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Yes, please!
This has been requested for 4 years now. This should be something the Plex team should be looking at.
I would love this, and have been hoping it would be implemented soon.
Nope. Weāre going to get more features no one is really asking for. And weāre going to shut up and take it.
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Iād like to add my vote for nested collections as well. For example Iād like to make sub-groups under Marvel for Deadpool & Deadpool2, Daredevil & Elektra, the X-Men trilogy, in addition to my āAvengers relatedā movies.
pleaseā¦ this would make organization so much better, how has this been up for 4 years and no action? if any plex employee sees this please take this feature into consideration it would drastically improve the experience of plex.
Itās great to see that after 4 years this hasnāt been implemented and not even an acknowledgement from the devs. Glad to see my Plex Pass being used well.
Definitely a shame that this is being passed up. I suppose for when Iām feeling OCD Iāll just view my collections a product like Jellyfin. While I wouldnāt say their implementation is elegant by any stretch its at least there for use. Donāt get me wrong PLEX is still a better all around product itās just frustrating to not even put out some sort of announcement saying āHey guys, weāve seen numerous request for this feature, but arenāt able to implement at this time.ā.
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A request from dec 2018ā¦
why are we still waiting on this? Or at least a reply saying its being worked onā¦
Plex donāt usually comment on their roadmap ā they only tend to comment in feature suggestions if thereās specific questions to understand a suggestion or if a suggestion is being rejected.
Not every suggestion can/will be implementedā¦ thereās quite a number of suggestions contradicting each other etc.
I get that they donāt want to commit to something if theyāre not able to do it, but come on. Itās been 3 years on this request. And itās not an unpopular request. There ways to acknowledge a request without committing.
āWeāll add this to our list for consideration.ā
āWeāre looking into this.ā
āThis feature is currently in our backlogā
āWeāre reviewing thisā
āDue to the way Plex collections are coded, nesting them is not feasible.ā
See? Not that hard to leave a non-committal comment.
We pay for Plex Pass not just for certain features but also to support the developers. Wouldnāt you agree itās a little frustrating to be monetarily supporting them and when we ask/suggest certain features they almost seem to look away? Or theyāll release features that no one was really asking for? Or take their time squashing bugs that many people complain about(downloading for one example)? Or they take literal years to develop a requested feature?
At least on my end, as a Plex Pass member for the last 6 years(and $300), Iām beyond frustrated. Maybe we get frustrated enough and stop supporting themā¦ Itās an option we have.
Now that Editions has been implemented, I can really see another use case for having nested collections. I personally HATE having in my Halloween collection two versions of half of the films in that series as separate entries. It would be awesome to be able to group those editions into nested collections!
Iāve been asking for this on Reddit for a long long time. The more complex my library gets the more I need it. Could it be as simple as adding a āTagsā entry to a collection edit dialog?
This is a sorely needed feature that Iām amazed hasnāt been implemented yet.
In the age of cinematic universes, some collections can be massive and unmanageable requiring specific sub-categorisation to get them under control.
My Marvel collection has nearly 60 films in it, to be able to split those down into sub-collections for specific stories or themes would be very welcome. I canāt imagine this feature would be especially hard to introduce.
I kinda hoped that when we got something like categories we would have some form of control over them. I just want a function where I can store a group of collections and present them like the home page hubs but save them in a category; Marvel, Star Wars, Middle-Earth etcā¦
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This has to be my top feature request. The Marvel collection gets bigger and bigger. It would be great to group all the trilogies into a sub-collection within the Marvel collection.
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