Adding to collections doesnt work like it says in the documentation

[Nzzer0 5]

In the "help" (here https://emby.media/support/articles/Collections.html )
it says that when you "long press on the first poster" you get a dialog to multi-add items to a collection. 

But theres no such thing as a long-press on a desktop, so I cant find any way to get to this screen. Its essential, because adding items to collctions individually (several clicks each) is so labourious as to make collections useless ... 

So has this screen been removed, and if not, how can I get to it? 

[Lessaj 467]

On desktop when you mouse over an item there's a circle in the top left which you can click to start multi select. Shift+click to select a range also works once in this mode.

Edited February 18, 2024 by Lessaj

[Happy2Play 9780]

Since you have already enabled multi-select on first card, click the three dot menu at the top right of screen.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Sorry you copied image from documention.

Desktop you hover over left corner to select

Or click three dot menu on card

But there are device and different view variables.

[Nzzer0 5]

awesome thanks, worked it out. 

they really should have it as a menu item somewhere (redundancy for ease of use and all that)

[Happy2Play 9780]

24 minutes ago, Nzzer0 said:

awesome thanks, worked it out. 

they really should have it as a menu item somewhere (redundancy for ease of use and all that)

Can you elaborate as there are several ways to do this.  But depends on if you are talking about one item or many items.

multi-select/multi-select menu (shown above)

item card menu

enter item and click menu

[Nzzer0 5]

those are singele add, I meant multi-add. 

the only way to enable multi-add is via the top left of the thumbnail, its not on any text menus anywhere and really should be

(good UI design and all that)

[Happy2Play 9780]

True but that depends on your display as desktop mode you will see hover option where touch screen/tv/mobile will have different options.

 

[Luke 42078]

12 hours ago, Nzzer0 said:

those are singele add, I meant multi-add. 

the only way to enable multi-add is via the top left of the thumbnail, its not on any text menus anywhere and really should be

(good UI design and all that)

Isn't the checkbox in the top left a quicker way to get there?

[Nzzer0 5]

Speed for UI is one goal, but learnability and mental model are also important. 
Most UIs try and allow for both. 

Edited February 20, 2024 by Nzzer0

[Luke 42078]

OK we currently only show the multi-select menu option on touch input, but I guess we can show it all the time.

[Nzzer0 5]

cool. dunno what it looks like, but that might help learnability, yeah.  (not for me of course, I know it now) 

[Luke 42078]

37 minutes ago, Nzzer0 said:

cool. dunno what it looks like, but that might help learnability, yeah.  (not for me of course, I know it now) 

It will look exactly like happy2play's screenshot above.