How do I mark all movies in a new library as watched?

[Michael K. 24]

I've created a new library and by default the movies are 'unwatched'. I would like to mark all of them as 'watched'. There are several hundred movies, so I would like to know the most efficient way to do this. Is there a way to 'select all'?

 

 

[Happy2Play 9781]

Only by hacking the librarybrowser.js and adding the "| item.Type == 'CollectionFolder' |" (was line 3141 for me) back in to show "Played" indicator at folder level, restart server after making the change.

 

Emby-Server\System\dashboard-ui\scripts

Edited May 2, 2016 by Happy2Play

[Michael K. 24]

Only by hacking the librarybrowser.js and adding the "| item.Type == 'CollectionFolder' |" (was line 3141 for me) back in to show "Played" indicator at folder level, restart server after making the change.

 

Emby-Server\System\dashboard-ui\scripts

 

thanks for the tip

[Andrommy 2]

Missed this function for years, will there ever be a proper solution?

[CBers 7451]

Only by hacking the librarybrowser.js and adding the "| item.Type == 'CollectionFolder' |" (was line 3141 for me) back in to show "Played" indicator at folder level, restart server after making the change.

 

Emby-Server\System\dashboard-ui\scripts

Can you do a pull request so it gets added into the core?

[Happy2Play 9781]

@@Luke was there a reason this was removed a long time ago?

[Luke 42079]

I would use the multi-select tool.

[Andrommy 2]

I would use the multi-select tool.

 

Great to see it's been implemented! Last time I was using multi-select tool i'm pretty sure there wasn't an option to set them as watched, so the change mustve been very recently...or I'm just blind.

[Michael K. 24]

I would use the multi-select tool.

 

The multi-select is a great improvement; however with regards to this particular thread issue, I would need to select hundreds of movies/shows across multiple pages, so it would still be cumbersome for processing newly created libraries.

 

If I had to do this only once when the library is first created, I think the multi-select would would a fine solution, however a library might need to be deleted and recreated more than once. For example, an update to metadata was recently implemented, for which I had to deleted and recreate the library to see the changes. Some other examples are when you need to migrate data storage, and add new media in bulk.

[Happy2Play 9781]

The multi-select is a great improvement; however with regards to this particular thread issue, I would need to select hundreds of movies/shows across multiple pages, so it would still be cumbersome for processing newly created libraries.

 

If I had to do this only once when the library is first created, I think the multi-select would would a fine solution, however a library might need to be deleted and recreated more than once. For example, an update to metadata was recently implemented, for which I had to deleted and recreate the library to see the changes. Some other examples are when you need to migrate data storage, and add new media in bulk.

@@Michael K.

 

Updated Best Answer.  Sure the way I mentioned works but you can do the exact same thing with the Multi-Select option also.

 

Example

On Home Screen Left click and hold on the Library you want to mark as Played (Library becomes checked) - Select three dots menu (top right) - Mark Played

 

Or check all libraries then mark as played.

Edited May 4, 2016 by Happy2Play

[Michael K. 24]

@@Michael K.

 

Updated Best Answer.  Sure the way I mentioned works but you can do the exact same thing with the Multi-Select option also.

 

Example

On Home Screen Left click and hold on the Library you want to mark as Played (Library becomes checked) - Select three dots menu (top right) - Mark Played

 

Or check all libraries then mark as played.

 

Thank you @@Happy2Play and @@Luke. This is exactly what I was looking for. The multi-select tool worked perfectly, marking all videos in the library as watched. I didn't think to use it on the folder level.

 

I changed the best answer to your post @@Happy2Play because it included the instructions. Thanks again.

Edited May 4, 2016 by Michael K.