TV show library filter not showing new collection

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I’ve done this before but it’s been a while so I’m not sure if this is user error or not. I have 6 existing TV Show collections to use with creating smart playlists. I have added some shows to a new 7th collection. If I click on the TV Shows collections tab, it displays 7 collections. However, if I click on the TV Shows library tab, select the All filter dropdown, and then select Collection, it only shows my previous 6 collections. Not sure what’s up here.

I suspect those other 6 collections are regular collections?
The library-level filter only targets shows with a collection tag – not smart collections.

What I did was select episodes > add to > collection > create new collection. I think this is just a regular collection. I didn’t see anything talking about a smart collection.

And looking through the collection documentation, my collection doesn’t have a gear icon to indicate a smart collection.

I got the collection to appear in the filter list by selecting the show and creating the collection rather than selecting the episodes and creating the collection. This works for my current purposes but what if you want to create and filter a collection of just specific episodes?

That’s correct. If you use the Add to actions to create a new collection, those will create a collection tag. I don’t know if Plex will ever change that (allowing to filter for both smart and regular/“tagged” collections) – though it’s not possible right now.

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