Tags for Access

[Misinthe 46]

Hello everyone,

You know how there's a way to Tag content in order to block it for users? I was wondering if there's something like that but to give access to users? Like, my son's account is TV-PG and I want to give him access to a TV-PG13 show, I could just tag that show and give him access to that tag.

Thank you.

[roaku 842]

You can whitelist by tag as well as blacklist.

But, in this case, you'd be better off using the custom/parental rating field in the Metadata Manager, instead of tags.

This lets you display the real rating in the apps but the system will use the custom rating to decide access.

Edited March 29, 2021 by roaku

[Misinthe 46]

22 hours ago, roaku said:

You can whitelist by tag as well as blacklist.

But, in this case, you'd be better off using the custom/parental rating field in the Metadata Manager, instead of tags.

This lets you display the real rating in the apps but the system will use the custom rating to decide access.

Thank you for your answer, this works well for Movies, but not for TV Shows. I tried editing the TV show, then it appeared on his profile, but no seasons, then I edited each season, they appeared on his profile but without episodes, so I would need to go to each single episode of a TV show and change its Metadata, which would be a lot of work for long TV shows. 

 

As for the white list, how do you do it? I only see the "block by tag" section. 

[Happy2Play 9783]

13 minutes ago, Misinthe said:

Thank you for your answer, this works well for Movies, but not for TV Shows. I tried editing the TV show, then it appeared on his profile, but no seasons, then I edited each season, they appeared on his profile but without episodes, so I would need to go to each single episode of a TV show and change its Metadata, which would be a lot of work for long TV shows. 

@Lukeshould PA apply the entire Series not just Series level when applying custom ratings?  I have reproduced this.

13 minutes ago, Misinthe said:

As for the white list, how do you do it? I only see the "block by tag" section. 

This is one or the other per the Tag restriction mode drop down box.  But there becomes a conflict with tag and Maximum allowed parental rating as it uses both values.

Edited March 30, 2021 by Happy2Play

[Misinthe 46]

On 29/03/2021 at 20:06, Happy2Play said:

@Lukeshould PA apply the entire Series not just Series level when applying custom ratings?  I have reproduced this.

This is one or the other per the Tag restriction mode drop down box.  But there becomes a conflict with tag and Maximum allowed parental rating as it uses both values.

So tonight, all the episodes are showing, maybe it needed some time to compile them. I will test another one with just the TV Show, without doing the Seasons and see if it works after giving it some time. Thank you for all your help though. 

[Happy2Play 9783]

1 minute ago, Misinthe said:

So tonight, all the episodes are showing, maybe it needed some time to compile them. I will test another one with just the TV Show, without doing the Seasons and see if it works after giving it some time. Thank you for all your help though. 

I would have to test, but thinking back a library scan need to be done to push the custom rating to the entire series.

Confirmed doing a Scan library files on the Series worked.  So any library scan will propagate the custom rating.

[Misinthe 46]

4 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

I would have to test, but thinking back a library scan need to be done to push the custom rating to the entire series.

Confirmed doing a Scan library files on the Series worked.  So any library scan will propagate the custom rating.

Understood, I'll make sure to do a scan afterwards then to refresh the rating. Thank you so much for your help. 

[Luke 42083]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.