Managing collections

[Moondoggie78]

I'm also wondering about this issue. I have a few movies that I would like to have in the Collections tab, but not all of the movies. As an example, I have all of the Harry Potter films as well as the Fantastic Beasts ones. I wanted all of the Wizarding World movies together and not to be grouped by Harry Potter and then Fantastic Beasts. Is this simply just remove the TMDb Box Set plugin and just manually adjust from there?

[TheDreadPirate]

Is this simply just remove the TMDb Box Set plugin and just manually adjust from there?

Yes.

[nanouk76]

You mean a "lock this item to prevent future changes" in the "edit metada page"? Yes, they do. But checking the box has no effect it seems since the movie edits are invariably added back, sometimes in a matter of a few seconds. Scratching my head here... All the more strange since the TMdb Box set plugin is scheduled to run every 4 hours. Maddening

Hi, quoting myself to re-up since the recurring problem has not gone away with the uninstallation of the TMDb Box Sets plugin as the following shows (as was advised in the previous post):

xbmc@jellyfinvar/lib/jellyfin/plugins$ ls -lh
total 96K
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mars  19 21:33  configurations
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K avril 10  2023  Fanart_10.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:17  Fanart_11.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K avril 29  2023 'Jellyfin Ignore_0.3.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:17 'Kodi Sync Queue_11.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K avril 23  2023 'Kodi Sync Queue_9.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  16 07:32 'Merge Versions_10.8.0.2'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai    3  2023 'Open Subtitles_18.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K juil.  3  2023 'Open Subtitles_19.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:17 'Open Subtitles_20.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mars  20 22:22 'Playback Reporting_13.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:18 'Playback Reporting_14.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mars  19 08:21  Reports_15.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:18  Reports_17.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  16 07:32 'Skin Manager_2.0.1'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K juin  20  2023  TheTVDB_10.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:18  TheTVDB_11.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  23 12:18  TheTVDB_12.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K juin  6 17:35  TheTVDB_13.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K avril  9  2023  TheTVDB_9.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  13  2023 'TMDb Trailers_12.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:18 'TMDb Trailers_13.0.0.0'
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K avril  9  2023  TVmaze_10.0.0.0
drwxr-xr-x 2 jellyfin jellyfin 4,0K mai  22 12:18  TVmaze_11.0.0.0
xbmc@jellyfinvar/lib/jellyfin/plugins$

I still get movies added to a collection even when the native option is disabled:



Waiting for someone to help... Banging my head here.

[theguymadmax]

@naouk76

I briefly skimmed over this thread and to my understanding you are trying to prevent movies from automatically being added to a collection. To do this, you would need to remove the TheMovieDb Box Set id from the movie's metadata that you do not want in the boxset. After that delete the collection and rerun the TMBD boxset task to recreate the collection. The movie without the TheMovieDb Box Set Id will no longer be in the collection.

[nanouk76]

@naouk76

I briefly skimmed over this thread and to my understanding you are trying to prevent movies from automatically being added to a collection. To do this, you would need to remove the TheMovieDb Box Set id from the movie's metadata that you do not want in the boxset. After that delete the collection and rerun the TMBD boxset task to recreate the collection. The movie without the TheMovieDb Box Set Id will no longer be in the collection.

Thanks for the valuable pointer. Had never thought to look in the metadata page for that. Seems to be working and to stick over time. Much appreciated, was driving me crazy 

[ghunterx21]

Go to Dashboard -> Libraries -> Display panel -> Check "Group movies in collections"

That helped me out a lot. Thank you for your help.

[FireBurst]

I have the "lock this item to prevent future changes" on my movie collection but when I refresh libraries the collection is renaming back to default. I changed the name of it, it just never stay after a refresh.

I unchecked the automatically create collection when 2 movies are of same collection, but it still create a new folder collection of the movies... why does it still create new collection when its unchecked?

I have no control over my collecitons, it always create, keep the same names after a refresh. I can create a new collection myself but they always are found in a second collection I didn't create.

[Achilles]

I have a working example using the API / User Creds :

This example finds Movies by language code and adds to a collection of your choice.

https://gist.github.com/vineethvijay/f96...feda47e7ec