Seperate Collection Group?

[Distant2k]

Hi there,

Just migrating over from Plex, and so far VERY happy to have moved over to Jellyfin

I am though trying to find out if a feature in Plex is present in Jellyfin, and that is seperate Collection Groups.

In Plex, you are able to have a Collection related to each core Film Group..

i.e. 

• Films (HD/UHD) > Collections > Star Wars
  
• Films (REMUC) > Collections > Star Wars
  

Where each Star Wars collection has its own files

I only see the single Collections Group in Home Screen, so assuming that may be the only one?

No worries if not, as my REMUX collection is very small compared to primary selection, but was always a nice Plex feature.

Many thanks,
Neil

[tmsrxzar]

there is only 1 collection setup as a library entry

you can manually create a collection in the library entries by cloning the existing collections entry
- dashboard -> add library, where it asks for content type (the top drop-down) do not select anything so it defaults to none
- display name "Films Remux"
- for the folder it will be a data location folder similar to the existing collections folder, in that folder you will (manually) add/copy xml files

that method is rather laborious and tedious, i do not recommend it

the next method is to simply separate your content on the drive and add separate library entries for each

the final is go into the movies section, at the top you will see "Collections", you can add to or create new collections that show up there by clicking the 3 dots under a movie and clicking "Add to Collection"


for myself, i have separate folders and library entries as in method 2 but i also use method 3 to create a "Marvel Cinematic Universe" collection and a "DC Universe" collection

[harrenkyym]

I'm gonna use this thread for my question.

I'm starting to make some scripts for create collections automatically based on some internet lists. I discovered thanks to this and this other reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/commen...s_folders/) that I could have another Library for something like this, so "collections" are separated from "recommended lists, top 10 movies today, etc."

I'm using this (https://github.com/titooo7/Jellyfin-Tool...-trakt.ps1) as a template, but I have completely adapted it to my needs, mine now is in python, for example (I'll cronjob it).

That said, I see there is an URL: "$jellyfinServerURL/Collections?Name=$collectionName&Ids=$itemIDs&api_key=$jellyfinAPIKey" thats send the info the server to create a new collection.

My question is, how can I make the request to create the new collection in the new "collection" library? Can I change that Collections in the URL to point to the new library?

Thanks.