ok i am watching season 5 of 24. when the next episode is on deck it is showing the main poster art not the season 5 cover. just watch s5e2. s5e3 on deck main poster shows not season 5 cover. is there a way to change this?
just testing this on plex/web, PMC and android and it is the same so probably a server thing and not a plexconnect thing. not something i ever noticed before
You can edit /assets/templates/TVSection.xml line 27:-ok i am watching season 5 of 24. when the next episode is on deck it is showing the main poster art not the season 5 cover. just watch s5e2. s5e3 on deck main poster shows not season 5 cover. is there a way to change this?
{{IMAGEURL(grandparentThumb)}}
Change grandparentThumb to parentThumb this will then use season art instead of series are. HOWEVER there seems to be a small bug in PMS where by some item in the On Deck section don't get a parentThumb, so some of the artwork may not display at all.
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You can edit /assets/templates/TVSection.xml line 27:-
{{IMAGEURL(grandparentThumb)}}
Change grandparentThumb to parentThumb this will then use season art instead of series are. HOWEVER there seems to be a small bug in PMS where by some item in the On Deck section don't get a parentThumb, so some of the artwork may not display at all.
thanks that works great. one more question can the seasons posters be set to scroll on the left instead of the grandparentThumb when view my folder list
Sorry, I don't understand what your asking, please explain again.thanks that works great. one more question can the seasons posters be set to scroll on the left instead of the grandparentThumb when view my folder list
Sorry, I don't understand what your asking, please explain again.
Sorry. When I scroll down my list of folders that have movies in them. To the left the poster of the movies scroll. The ones with 5 or more movies. When i get to the tv show folder it only scrolls the main poster. Is there a way to have it scroll the seasons posters instead.
see how it show the main cover when scrolling.
also on the recently added/aired
is there a way to have it show the season covers instead. like in photo 3
Ok, your library is set up very strange, why would you add The Sopranos as a library section, most people just have a TV Show section with all there TV shows in it.
The main library view is designed to scroll through the series cover art because it assumes that the library section contains multiple items of that type. Like in my image I have a single TV Show library entry that contains all my TV Shows.
here how my library is set up.. hows your set up. maybe i am doing this wrong?
all my movies are done by genre
Yes, that's the strangest library set up I've ever seen :) I just have 1 TV Show library entry that contains all my TV Shows.
On my hard drive I have a single TV Shows directory:-
That then contains a directory for each series:-
Then in each series directory I have my season directorys:-
Then finally in each season directory I have the files for that season:-
As for having a library section for each genre, that's a waste of time because Plex can and will allow you to sort them by genre anyway :)
Yes, that's the strangest library set up I've ever seen :) I just have 1 TV Show library entry that contains all my TV Shows.
On my hard drive I have a single TV Shows directory:-
That then contains a directory for each series:-
Then in each series directory I have my season directorys:-
Then finally in each season directory I have the files for that season:-
As for having a library section for each genre, that's a waste of time because Plex can and will allow you to sort them by genre anyway :)
I agree plex will sort by genre but it also put the same movie in like 5 different genre. is there a way to make like 50 movies one genre?
Which is correct because some movies fall under multiple genres, a movie can be both an action film and a comedy as well as being sci-fi.I agree plex will sort by genre but it also put the same movie in like 5 different genre.
Sorry, but that makes no sense, why would you want a genre to contain just 50 movies?is there a way to make like 50 movies one genre?
Which is correct because some movies fall under multiple genres, a movie can be both an action film and a comedy as well as being sci-fi.
Sorry, but that makes no sense, why would you want a genre to contain just 50 movies?
what i mean is if in my action folder i have 50 movies and some of them could be comedy or action. is there a way to make them all action.
Ok, sorry I misread your post 
You can edit the genre for individual movies but I don’t think you can bulk edit more that 1 at a time 
But my point is why would you want to do that. If a movie is tagged as both action and comedy then it’s because it is both action and comedy, why would you want it to be just action?
If you have multiple genre movies, just select one of the genres in the index. Select action and all the movies tagged action will appear (and will include those tagged action and comedy, but that’s a good thing isn’t it?).
You can also use the collection field to organize further.
Ok, sorry I misread your post :) You can edit the genre for individual movies but I don't think you can bulk edit more that 1 at a time :(
But my point is why would you want to do that. If a movie is tagged as both action and comedy then it's because it is both action and comedy, why would you want it to be just action?
ok i understand. but back to my first question. I put all the tv shows in one group. It still only shows the main cover when scrolling not each season. is there a way to change it. so lets say you have all 6 season of lost. instead of the main poster scrolling 6 times it shows season 1-6
Which is correct, from the library level the next level down from TV Shows is the series level, so at the library level we show the series level cover art.I put all the tv shows in one group. It still only shows the main cover when scrolling not each season.
Yes.is there a way to change it.
Edit /assets/templates/SectionPreview-show.xml change both lines 8 and 15, they are both the same:-
{{BIGIMAGEURL(parentThumb)}}
change parentThumb to thumb on both lines - notice it's a lowercase t
ok here what it did. now it get nothing scrolling. when i put it back it get the scrolling.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
{{COPY(Directory)}}
{{BIGIMAGEURL(parentthumb)}}
{{CUT(size:CUT:0=CUT|0 =|1=CUT|1 =|2=CUT|2 =|3=CUT|4=CUT|5=CUT|6=)}}
{{COPY(Directory)}}
{{BIGIMAGEURL(parentthumb)}}
{{CUT(size::0=|0 =CUT|1=|1 =CUT|2=|2 =CUT|3=|4=|5=|6=CUT)}}
No… Replace parentThumb with just thumb
{{BIGIMAGEURL(thumb)}}
No..... Replace parentThumb with just thumb
{{BIGIMAGEURL(thumb)}}
thank you for all your help. That worked great.. Is there a reason why it not the default? Do you know what the bug is that some of the on deck dont get the parentThumb
