Sort order of movies

[nanouk76]

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:



Any ideas on how to solve this cosmetic problem?
Thx in advance for your input.

[TheDreadPirate]

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.

[KodiUser1138]

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.

[TheDreadPirate]

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).   

   

[nanouk76]

@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.

[theguymadmax]

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.
   

[KodiUser1138]

Huzzah!  Glad to be wrong.  Shows you how little I use collections (only on my test instance).   

Collections are awesome for collecting things. It's one of the reasons I've been vocal about trying to get improvements made, easier to manage for end users, options etc. 

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.

Collections does default to release date which is great for some types of collections. Others using the sorting method of your choice gives a much better presentation, It is great that Collections allows for this flexibility. I would love to be able to separate media by overall JF library rather than have all specific media types lumped into just 1 group.

@KodiUser1138 sent me on the right path. Thanks for that.

Happy to help. I find collections a very useful tool within JF for managing my ever growing libraries but I wish there were a few things added to them and/or adjustments. Like below, and mentioned in other areas of this forum as well as making a feature request, having all media of one type (movies, series, other) lumped together looks odd. It would be great if each actual library entry could be designated within the collection. It would also be nice if the collection poster remained stationary on the landscape screen while scorlling so you don't just have a quarter of the screen as blank space. I believe I saw an option was added to show/hide studios which is cool. Don't really care for that information. Geners as well. And then ultimately a much easier method of adding contect to collections, organizing, updating, sharing with others etc. Even just the simplification of a collection entry having 2/3 variables, library name and then title/sorttitle, as well the direct path name. And being able to manually edit all that through XML or however (as it was prior to 10.9.3).



Though even in answering your original quastion there does seem to be some sort of hiccup in the sorting as noted by the posters showing War of the Worlds and Raiders out or alphabetical order for some reason I cannot discern. 

Sorry to sort-of hijack your thread but hopefuly you have some fun ideas on how to utilize collections as well!