Hello,
It would be a good option to make subsections or subfolders in the PMS, like follow.
Is it possible to make subsections like, FILMS--->AUGUST--->for KIDS
---->for ADULTS ...etc.
If it's able, it will be good to chooose for the sub sections different scanners, like tvshows, for kids, and film scanner for adults, etc.
I would like to ask min. two level deep subsystem, but it's perfect if its multiple level.
YS: Probadroid
Perhaps if we had parental controls, we would not feel the need to suggest 3 new workarounds each week.
Sorry, I thought this is a forum.
But I see now, this is your playground agregjones.
parental controls would be cool but i would rather have sub sections.
It would be nice to just go into movies and have all my daughters movies not showing. and vice versa daughters movies only under her section.
yes parental controls would help for her section but wouldn't help with me not seeing her movies in movies folders.
Anyway. I've got the idea from my son's tales.
I put his 30 "stand alone, all night long" scooby doo tale into his folder with other tales (cars, shrek etc.) and plex list it all, in one folder.
It was funny to scroll over 30 scooby do tales to find the "Tarzan".
Sorry, I thought this is a forum.
But I see now, this is your playground agregjones.
This is a forum, but that doesn't mean we have to go out of our way to use Plex in such counterintuitive ways. Many people only want extra sections because of the lack of parental controls. Adding new sections for other movies only makes it harder to find movies when you want to watch them.
Many of us have kids and have the same needs: kids movies versus all movies. We can put them in separate sections or sub sections or we can work to get parental controls to filter them. Putting them in separate folders does not work long-term for several reasons. The biggest hurdle is that kids don't stay the same age. As your kids get older, the list of what's appropriate for them changes. Based on the section/folder model, this means physically moving content and losing all the metadata associated with it.
You will find that there are a number of workarounds today to accomplish the same goals you stated, but they all are reactions to a lack of several basic features:
If you could have a device logged in under a kids ID that automatically filtered out movies you deemed inappropriate, there would be much less need for all the subsections.
Who talked about parental control? (YOU)
It was only an example with tales.
Perhaps it was my fault when I wrote it with tales and not movies.
But here we go: I'm going to movies folder. It's ok. I want to see the film called "Taken". Let's scroll down to it.
Ooooh look at those Harry Potter films, its fantastic, just a couple part of it (NOT ONE FOLDER, 6 or God knows how many parts from that), no problem!
Go deeper. Here comes the Jurassic Park stories (NOT ONE FOLDER, 3 or 4 :), nothing happens scroll deeper.
Here comes the Lord of the rings, star wars etc.
And about 2 minutes later I came to the film "TAKEN", tadaaaa.
So thats why I meant it would be better to have an opportunity to make subs.
In that case, this is the standard tradeoff of simplicity versus speed. You have three options, currently.
I understand your question, but I do not know how many people would prefer more folders instead of fewer.
Corrected post below.
I have a perfect example for why subfolders should be added. Sports, especially in a playoff scenario.
Right now you just throw everything into a library or create a bunch of libraries to accommodate this, and this makes your libraries very messy. Instead, why not use subfolders.
-Some Sport (library)
+1st round playoffs (subfolder)
+2nd round playoffs (subfolder)
+etc
or by teams playing each other...
-Another Sport (library)
+Team A vs Team B (subfolder)
+Team C vs Team D (subfolder)
+etc
I have a perfect example for why subfolders should be added. Sports, especially in a playoff scenario.
Right now you just throw everything into a library or create a bunch of libraries to accommodate this, and this makes your libraries very messy. Instead, why not use subfolders.
-Some Sport (library)
+1st round playoffs (subfolder)
+2nd round playoffs (subfolder)
+etc
or by teams playing each other...
-Another Sport (library)
+Team A vs Team B (subfolder)
+Team C vs Team D (subfolder)
+etc
Have you tired the by Folder view with the above structure ?
That works on a Roku player, but for desktop and mobile uses, it does not. Plus, it would be much easier if as soon as you clicked on the library you saw subfolders waiting for you.
Would be good to have sub folders.
I think Plex could really do with this.
Would be very helpful for those of us with a sizable library of data.
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (folder mode, collections, parental controls)
