What are some reasons we would want show items in a collection to take precedence over hide items in a collection? If an item is in multiple collections and one is set so hide items and the other set to show; show items takes precedence.
So if I have a 300 collection and that is set to hide items but one of the movies is also a part of my favorites collection that is set to show items. I wouldn’t want to hide all my favorites but if some of those are within collections that I do want the items hidden I still want them hidden. I went through and thought about all my collections and the way it works does seem backwards. I can’t think of a reason I would want it the way it works.
There are really at least 2 types of collections however. You could break it down to more than 2 but by what the intent is there are 2 that I can think of. One is direct sequels and I see no reason not to hide items contained within those collections. The kinds of collections can all be summed up into the second type. It is just a relational grouping. In this case I don’t want to force hide the items within but if they are hidden already from the first type they should remain so. This can be for collections byt director, studio, artist, “universe” like Marvel Studios or The Conjuring Universe, Oscars, or whatever you prefer.
I was thrilled to learn collections can be set on and individual basis but disheartened when I learned that when I hide the items within the Back to the Future collection but because the first part is also a part of my favorites collection and those are not hidden that the first part then does not get hidden. I wouldn’t want universe collection to force hide items either but items that are hidden from other collections like direct sequel collections I would want to remain hidden.
So I propose either if an item is part of a collection that is set to hide items that, that takes precedence and the item remains hidden. Or, a bit more involved approach that recognizes their are at least two types of collections and adds a second type. The first taking precedence over the second. Call them what you will.
I could use lists for favorites, universe, or other types of groupings like director or Oscars but lists are nowhere near as useful and handy or obvious as collections. But this would only be handy if lists also took on a role more similar to how collections work. Before collections took on the in library/inline powerful form they now have over just the drop down filter they weren’t that obvious and useful to those not in the know and at times lists were a more suitable option. But now collections are doing it nearly right and lists I only have one use for to put in order all the episodes of Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe in the order they aired so the episodes of overlapping series could be viewed in order and within context of each other, Other than that I really don’t have a use for lists. Mostly just for play order.
So back to my question what are some supporting reasons to keep collections the way they are over what I propose. As of now even though I can individually set each collection to hide or show items I have to choose just to show everything anyway because it is too messy to have things showing that should be hidden.
