So I am building my Library on Plex and have been using Sort title to list sequels in there release order, however when I search for them it doesn’t take this into account.
The Example I’m using is the Terminator quadrilogy (1, 2, 3, Salvation). I have given these the Sort Titles “Terminator 01” to “Terminator 04”. When I search for them using the term “Terminator” it returns in the wrong order, giving me 1, Salvation, 2, 3.
Is there any way to have them display in the correct order in searches? Am I just missing a setting?
I am using Plex on a Synology device, Latest Release (1.9.7.4460).
You can use the Collectiontag instead or in addition.
If you add “Terminator” as Collection, you can
search for Terminator and pick the collection
whenever you go to one of the records, the others will be displayed as related videos (“XYZ Collection”)
filter your library by Collection
within the collection, videos will be displayed by release date – that’s fine for most of the sequels, however there’s exceptions (such as Star Wars which will show as Episode 4-6, Episode 1-3, Episode 7).
There’s a number of feature requests on improving collections in the Plex Pass forums (e.g. asking to have collections as own entry in your library – giving you 1 entry for Terminator to drill down – also considering custom ordering within the collection). If you consider to buy Plex Pass and like the Collections (or want them to be further improved) vote there!
Can you add tags/collection information by command line, file naming, or agent?
I would like to automate the addition of tags or building collections rather than visiting each through the web interface and manually editing. This also becomes important if/when movies are moved or the database needs to be rebuilt.
@VerminousCoot: screenshot please… I’m not sure what view you’re using. I believe sort title e.g. doesn’t apply to folder view. Sort titles should however work nicely in any other view (poster, list…). I have this working for e.g. Harry Potter 1-8 or Star Wars and they all show sorted as expected.
@ourcontact: you can activate collection information to be pulled from TheMovieDB via the TheMovieDB or Plex Movie agent’s settings (or on a per library basis if the library’s media type is one of the above).
I have Use Collection info enabled but get nothing. And that doesn’t help with personal movies.
What I am asking about is a method to configure my own custom collections by command line, file naming, or agent.
By agent I mean an plug in agent that can use custom information, file name, contents of a file stored with the movie (for example moviename.tags), etc.
@ourcontact: maybe make a dedicated topic of that. I don’t think you’ll get the necessary attention when raising a different question into another topic.
From what I’m aware of, you cannot do this with ootb Plex.
@tom80H said: @ourcontact: maybe make a dedicated topic of that. I don’t think you’ll get the necessary attention when raising a different question into another topic.
From what I’m aware of, you cannot do this with ootb Plex.
Thanks, that was all I wanted right now, see if anyone had experience.
