Collections mixed in different libraries

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Question - before i raise a feature request

 

if i have multiple Movie Libraries and select the collection tab within a movie library

 

1) Should i only see the collections for that particular movie library?

2) or should i see all collections across all Movie libraries?

 

what i am seeing at the moment is 2)

Edited August 31, 2017 by PenkethBoy

[Happy2Play 9780]

Can't remember if collections use to honor topparentid or not, it has been awhile.

Edited August 31, 2017 by Happy2Play

[Guest asrequested]

There's just one collections library. So what you want is to be able create your own collections, as individual libraries?

[PenkethBoy 2068]

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What i want is that if i am in Library A and click on collections - i see only collections for Library A - NOT mixed in with collections from Library B,C and......

 

If its all one "library of collections" then "Collections" should also be on the Home page along side favourites etc - Dont like this idea - would prefer separate "Collection Libraries" - or a switch/option to combine like you have for combining movie/TV libraries as one

 

@@Happy2Play

 

Cant remember either if it did before or not - as only recently been adding collections to different Movie libraries and noticed that they are combined.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Well there is a Collections View that can be added to My Media (Homescreen) that I would think should have this consolidated Collections view.  But agree per-library should only contain collections that reside in that library.

[Guest asrequested]

Yeah, for those who have genre libraries, I would think that would be a good option.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Ah yes forgot about that option - but effectively you have this now in any movie library

[PenkethBoy 2068]

@@Happy2Play - as we have decided that this is not how it works and its not really a bug could you move this thread to the Feature Request forum please?

[Happy2Play 9780]

As a test I rolled back to a previous server version and ParentId's where honored so this would fall under the same issues of legacy collections breaking in new build.

 

@@Luke

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Ah ok - how far back did you have to go?

[ebr 16184]

The server-based collections have always been global.  This is because there are no restrictions on what you can put in a collection so they could have items that span multiple libraries.  That means the collection itself belongs to no library.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Thats not what Happy just tested

 

Having all collections together is a very odd way to do it

[Nick's MCE 59]

Not sure if I am in the right post but you seem to be talking about 2 issues which I am also having.

 

Firstly after the last build all my legacy collections have vanished, what the!!!. I ended up uninstalling the server and re-installing but no joy, all gone.

 

Secondly I had my collections split into kids and adults. If I clicked on collections it would combine both libraries, really annoying!!.

 

Thats not what Happy just tested

 

Having all collections together is a very odd way to do it

It is the logical way, especially as a fanart artist making artwork for collections, cant begin to explain how impractical the new setup is for us.

[Happy2Play 9780]

Sorry, had to add more the one collection per library on my test machine to see them merged.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Ok so it has never done this - is that what you are saying Happy?

[Happy2Play 9780]

Right and if you think about it is make a little since.  The collections exist outside the libraries.  (\Emby-Server\data\collections)

 

But there should be a way to keep them in their libraries.

 

Moving to Feature Request.

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Ok folks if you like the idea please like the first post

[ebr 16184]

Right and if you think about it is make a little since.  The collections exist outside the libraries.  (\Emby-Server\data\collections)

 

But there should be a way to keep them in their libraries.

 

Moving to Feature Request.

 

But that's the thing - a collection doesn't belong to a single library.  It can contain items from any number of libraries.

 

Are you saying you want us to restrict the items of a collection to only being in a single library?

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Yes existing outside libraries is the easy option or was never thought about - which is very do-able as each library has a parent id - so use that - put it in the collection xml file

 

If you have gone to the trouble of splitting out libraries i think your are unlikely to then create a collection of items across libraries - and even if you did just use the first video added as the owning library for the cross collection er.. collection

 

if that puts it in the wrong library for your setup - just change the library id

 

Or possibly add the option to add more than one id so the odd collection could appear in two collections

 

Not difficult to do or program

 

There are probably other ways to do it - have not checked the DB structure

[Happy2Play 9780]

But that's the thing - a collection doesn't belong to a single library.  It can contain items from any number of libraries.

 

Are you saying you want us to restrict the items of a collection to only being in a single library?

 

It comes down to how people have there libraries setup.  I have separate Kids movies and Movies libraries structured way before Emby.  So tmdbid colledtions should reside only in the library they are present in.

 

As for custom collections that would be a debate.

[Happy2Play 9780]

This issue was resolved for Genre when it has the same issue.

Edited August 31, 2017 by Happy2Play

[Nick's MCE 59]

I have had movie folders structured separately forever as below, The combining of collections from Sets & Kids Sets has been there since the launch of Theater. This didn't bother me because I would access my collections directly through each folder and not through the collections Tab.

 

At the moment I cant see any collections or even the movies in the collections due to the last build

 

Can anyone tell me where to get the last build so I can roll back.

 

 

 

Movies

Sets 

Kids Movies

TV

Kids Movies

Kids Sets

Kids TV

Home Movies

[moviefan 187]

3.2.28 fixes the issue.

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/releases

Edited September 3, 2017 by moviefan

[Mohamed Selim 24]

I Have multiple libraries for movies (idian, english arabic etc) when i choose a library to choose from its collections i see that the collections are mixed with other libraries (so if i choose for example library indian movies i see the collections of english movies libray and arabic movies library and all collections of all libraries) so it misses the point of separate libraries

I think the expected behaviour is when i select a library to see its collections only not mixed with other libraries

I use the old boxset collections method

Please fix

Thanks alot

[Mohamed Selim 24]

Please could anybody understand my problem or reply to me Thanks alot