Collections

[gotson]

Ability to group Series into Collections.

Those collections could be used for different purposes:

• group related Series, for example from the same universe
• curate lists, for example reading lists or favorites

Collections should be manually managed by each user.

Collections could also be shareable, but the details of this need to be refined.

Expected behavior:

• Only admin users can create, update, and delete collections
• All users can see collections, limited by the libraries they are authorized on
• When refreshing metadata, the SeriesGroup field from ComicInfo.xml should be used to generate a collection if it doesn't exist, or add the series to an existing collection see Generate Collections from ComicInfo.xml's SeriesGroup field #210

[janbo208]

It would be great if collections could be created automatically from metadata fields.

I would like to use the Series Group field from ComicRack metadata (#54) to group related series.

[gotson]

It would be great if collections could be created automatically from metadata fields.

I would like to use the Series Group field from ComicRack metadata (#54) to group related series.

There's no Series Group in ComicInfo as far as the spec says.

[janbo208]

That file seems to be an old version. There are a number of missing fields: Characters, Teams, Locations, ScanInformation, StoryArc, SeriesGroup, AgeRating

This one looks accurate: https://github.com/wyldphyre/ComicArchive/blob/master/ComicArchive/ComicRack/ComicInfo.xsd

[gotson]

Thanks, that's very useful. How does this SeriesGroup work or is expected to behave then? You just put a string key, and then you can see all the Series that have the same key?

[janbo208]

Yes, but I mainly thought about the issue of displaying Series located in subfolders as mentioned here: #46

I would like to see Series grouped under SeriesGroup:

Manga
├── Series A
├── Series B
├── SeriesGroup C (Collection)
│   ├── Series C1
│   ├── Series C2
...

[gotson]

Once collections are there I plan to add a helper to easily create collections from subfolders, and I could have one that would create collections from the SeriesGroup field in ComicInfo too.

[gotson]

Yes, but I mainly thought about the issue of displaying Series located in subfolders as mentioned here: #46

I would like to see Series grouped under SeriesGroup:

Manga
├── Series A
├── Series B
├── SeriesGroup C (Collection)
│   ├── Series C1
│   ├── Series C2
...

I just added Sort Title for series, so for now at least you can see series grouped together, even if the title is very different, without changing your folder names.

[cesalo]

Just thinking out loud here: Why not something similar to what Plex does? At library level there could be available all the different characteristics/properties of series/books and sorting details .. then you choose what ever you want: Publisher and/or Series and/or StoryArc plus order by name or date added plus series ended or ongoing plus series that are unread or in-progress .. and then an option to create a collection from it (In Plex is a Playlist or Smart Playlist).

[gotson]

That's an entirely different feature. Plex has collections, that's what I want to replicate here. Feel free to open a feature request for smart playlists.

[gotson]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 0.40.0 🎉

The release is available on:

• v0.40.0
• GitHub release

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