Plex Collectionless

This is not needed if you're using Smart Label Collections.

Finds every item that is not in a collection unless the collection is in the exclusion list. This is a special collection type to help keep your library looking correct. When items in your library are in multiple collections it can mess up how they're displayed in your library.

For Example, if you have a Marvel Cinematic Universe Collection set to Show this collection and its items and an Iron Man Collection set to Hide items in this collection what happens is the show overrides the hide, and you end up with both the collections and the 3 Iron Man movies all displaying.

Alternatively, if you set the Marvel Cinematic Universe Collection to Hide items in this collection then movies without a collection like The Incredible Hulk will be hidden from the library view.

To combat the problem above you set all collections to Hide items in this collection then create a collection set to Hide collection and put every movie that you still want to display in that collection.

With the variability of collections generated by the Kometa maintaining a collection like this becomes very difficult, so in order to automate it, you can use plex_collectionless. You just have to tell it what collections to exclude or what collection prefixes to exclude.

There are two attributes for plex_collectionless:

• exclude: Exclude these Collections from being considered for collectionless.
• exclude_prefix Exclude Collections whose title or sort title starts with a prefix from being considered for collectionless.

At least one exclusion is required.

Example Plex Collectionless Builder(s)

collections:
  Collectionless:
    plex_collectionless:
      exclude_prefix:
        - "!"
        - "+"
        - "~"
      exclude: 
        - Marvel Cinematic Universe
    sort_title: ~_Collectionless
    collection_order: alpha
    collection_mode: hide

• Both exclude and exclude_prefix can take multiple values as a List.
• This is a known issue with Plex Collection and there is a Feature Suggestion detailing the issue more on their forms.