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Sort order of movies - nanouk76 - 2024-09-19
Hi all,
not a serious problem at all but rather an annoyance.
I grouped all the Alien movies in a collection (via the TheMovieDb Box Set plugin) and when I open the collection in the Web UI the films are not sorted in order of release date even though I attempted to force that by giving each movie a sort title like Alien 1, Alien 2, etc.
This is what I get:
![[Image: Capture-d-cran-du-2024-09-19-09-26-08.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/pTLKRbqx/Capture-d-cran-du-2024-09-19-09-26-08.png)
Any ideas on how to solve this cosmetic problem?
Thx in advance for your input.
RE: Sort order of movies - TheDreadPirate - 2024-09-19
This is a client issue. This page does not use any sorting preferences or sorting titles.
I'm not sure if this behavior can be changed with CSS. But I'm not a CSS expert.
RE: Sort order of movies - KodiUser1138 - 2024-09-19
In your admin account you can set the sort order for collections and use the sorttitle, date of release and other options.
Unfortunately you can't separate items in collections based on the libraries you have added them to so all media considered "movies" will be lumped together.
RE: Sort order of movies - TheDreadPirate - 2024-09-19
(Yesterday, 02:21 PM)KodiUser1138 Wrote: In your admin account you can set the sort order for collections and use the sorttitle, date of release and other options.
Unfortunately you can't separate items in collections based on the libraries you have added them to so all media considered "movies" will be lumped together.
Huzzah! Glad to be wrong. Shows you how little I use collections (only on my test instance).
RE: Sort order of movies - nanouk76 - 2024-09-19
@KodiUser1138 sent me on the right path. Thanks for that.
For anyone wanting to sort this out (no pun intended) : once connected as admin, click on the sandwich icon (top left), then open metadata, collections and choose the "offending" collection. Then choose sort name in the display order. If you added a sort title for each film in the collection, they should be displayed in chronological release date. Dunno if there is a general setting to achieve this. Anyway, solved this slight inconvenience.
Thanks to all for the time taken to address my issue. Much appreciated.
RE: Sort order of movies - theguymadmax - 2024-09-19
Having the correct release date should also fix your issue without needing to adjust any settings. Also, you can set up multiple versions in Jellyfin using the appropriate folder and naming structure, if you weren't already aware.