Can Movie Sort By Be Changed to Just SortName?

January 10, 2017

When I navigate to my Movies collection in the web app I see that my movie collections (I have it setup to auto-group collections) are sorted first and then individual movies are sorted second. I confirmed this is the behavior by checking out API call which sorts by IsFolder and then SortName.

I find this a bit confusing and prefer to have the collections sorted within the individual movies. Is there a configuration option to change this?

Thanks!

January 10, 2017

Is this an unset library type?

That type of sort would be used for situations where you have organizational folders.

January 10, 2017

Is this an unset library type?

That type of sort would be used for situations where you have organizational folders.

Nope, it's a simple Movie type collection.

January 10, 2017

I did notice that the CollectionType of the item isn't set and it's being set in a property named OriginalCollectionType.

January 10, 2017

I did notice that the CollectionType of the item isn't set and it's being set in a property named OriginalCollectionType.

Yeah, I saw the changes you made. This sounds like some sort of legacy thing as I don't know what that property is. We will need Luke to weigh in on that.

January 10, 2017

You have your collections as physical folders with movies in them? You didnt use the auto-boxset plugin or the servers grouping tool?

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January 10, 2017

You have your collections as physical folders with movies in them? You didnt use the auto-boxset plugin or the servers grouping tool?

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No the collections are not physical folders. The Auto-boxset plugin is grouping them.

January 10, 2017

I had this happen too, when the server updated versions. I ran a library scan, then ran the clean database task and the problem solved itself. You should be able to do the same thing.

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January 10, 2017

I had this happen too, when the server updated versions. I ran a library scan, then ran the clean database task and the problem solved itself. You should be able to do the same thing.

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Thanks I'll give that a shot later.

January 11, 2017

I had this happen too, when the server updated versions. I ran a library scan, then ran the clean database task and the problem solved itself. You should be able to do the same thing.

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So this didn't end up working for me. Here's the JSON output for my libraries as requested from the 'Home Screen'

{
    "Items": [
        {
            "Name": "Movies",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "c8ca023cdbb96c78e4de5fcb477df512",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "c8ca023c-dbb9-6c78-e4de-5fcb477df512"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "c8ca023cdbb96c78e4de5fcb477df512",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "OriginalCollectionType": "movies",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "9a5faf79f9eb2c8311a74f26fde3328c"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "TV",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "7c6b1294b30d4c722993e4036d0425ac",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "7c6b1294-b30d-4c72-2993-e4036d0425ac"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "7c6b1294b30d4c722993e4036d0425ac",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "OriginalCollectionType": "tvshows",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "335f7bb1bc56cf0de7ea52226068013a"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Exercise",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "a29bef8ad9f1940ac99c599b20b390c2",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "a29bef8a-d9f1-940a-c99c-599b20b390c2"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "a29bef8ad9f1940ac99c599b20b390c2",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "7d840dd04e36f3009f07ad6b44b1ec61"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Recorded TV",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "eed4eebdd09243eaf8e7b19a31383867",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "eed4eebd-d092-43ea-f8e7-b19a31383867"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "eed4eebdd09243eaf8e7b19a31383867",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "homevideos",
            "OriginalCollectionType": "homevideos",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "ea9a8a138c32a3d19c272080acc06ac6"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Live TV",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "b5bfb6ae35078377cfcec4e6d6c15a69",
            "HasDynamicCategories": true,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "UserView",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "b5bfb6ae-3507-8377-cfce-c4e6d6c15a69"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "cb46bc72e78d95cc6cd072de3a65b93a",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "livetv",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "0c214b4fb6ed1bca33acfdce6cfcc8ea"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Music",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "60c6bb241c9195d4b536e84e02b31783",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "60c6bb24-1c91-95d4-b536-e84e02b31783"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "60c6bb241c9195d4b536e84e02b31783",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "music",
            "OriginalCollectionType": "music",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "55b374f9eae34325dfa321cad784da70"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        }
    ],
    "TotalRecordCount": 6
}

January 11, 2017

To me this sound like the per user legacy Plainfolderview. Can you post a screenshot of Movies view.

January 11, 2017

To me this sound like the per user legacy Plainfolderview. Can you post a screenshot of Movies view.

When I get a chance I will. But I can definitely see it being a regular folder view. In my Movies view for example there are no Latest Items and things like that.

January 11, 2017

Okay, If it the issue I believe it is you will have to shut down your server and manually edit your user config.xml (C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\config\users\"your userid").

Example here

You need to delete the strings from "PlainFolderViews".

Remove </PlainFolderViews> and change <PlainFolderViews> to <PlainFolderViews />.

January 11, 2017

@@Happy2Play --

That did the trick. For those interested here's the JSON representation after the adjustment:

{
    "Items": [
        {
            "Name": "Movies",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "c8ca023cdbb96c78e4de5fcb477df512",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "c8ca023c-dbb9-6c78-e4de-5fcb477df512"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "c8ca023cdbb96c78e4de5fcb477df512",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "movies",
            "OriginalCollectionType": "movies",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "9a5faf79f9eb2c8311a74f26fde3328c"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "TV",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "7c6b1294b30d4c722993e4036d0425ac",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "7c6b1294-b30d-4c72-2993-e4036d0425ac"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "7c6b1294b30d4c722993e4036d0425ac",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "tvshows",
            "OriginalCollectionType": "tvshows",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "335f7bb1bc56cf0de7ea52226068013a"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Exercise",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "a29bef8ad9f1940ac99c599b20b390c2",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "a29bef8a-d9f1-940a-c99c-599b20b390c2"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "a29bef8ad9f1940ac99c599b20b390c2",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "7d840dd04e36f3009f07ad6b44b1ec61"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Recorded TV",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "eed4eebdd09243eaf8e7b19a31383867",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "eed4eebd-d092-43ea-f8e7-b19a31383867"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "eed4eebdd09243eaf8e7b19a31383867",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "homevideos",
            "OriginalCollectionType": "homevideos",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "ea9a8a138c32a3d19c272080acc06ac6"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Live TV",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "b5bfb6ae35078377cfcec4e6d6c15a69",
            "HasDynamicCategories": true,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "UserView",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "b5bfb6ae-3507-8377-cfce-c4e6d6c15a69"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "cb46bc72e78d95cc6cd072de3a65b93a",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "livetv",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "0c214b4fb6ed1bca33acfdce6cfcc8ea"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        },
        {
            "Name": "Music",
            "ServerId": "7ac0f446c4c94b96a96da0c4c6834c99",
            "Id": "60c6bb241c9195d4b536e84e02b31783",
            "HasDynamicCategories": false,
            "PlayAccess": "Full",
            "IsFolder": true,
            "Type": "CollectionFolder",
            "UserData": {
                "PlaybackPositionTicks": 0,
                "PlayCount": 0,
                "IsFavorite": false,
                "Played": false,
                "Key": "60c6bb24-1c91-95d4-b536-e84e02b31783"
            },
            "ChildCount": 2,
            "DisplayPreferencesId": "60c6bb241c9195d4b536e84e02b31783",
            "PrimaryImageAspectRatio": 1.77777777777778,
            "CollectionType": "music",
            "OriginalCollectionType": "music",
            "ImageTags": {
                "Primary": "55b374f9eae34325dfa321cad784da70"
            },
            "BackdropImageTags": [],
            "LocationType": "FileSystem"
        }
    ],
    "TotalRecordCount": 6
}

January 11, 2017

Well done guys.

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