I am running 3.6.1 (build 1392).  I now have a number of box sets added as a parent profile, with individual film child profiles.  This is a neat feature.

I often will chose a film to watch based on running time (e.g. something I want to watch on TV in 2 and a half hours, what films can I watch to maximise that time).  If I sort by running time in the collection list window (clicking on column header), the films in the boxsets are sorted by the total time for the complete boxset rather than the individual film. 

I haven't found any way to switch this so that it will by default allow me to search by individual items rather than parents.  The closest I have got is by also applying a running time filter, however that doesn't 100% fix it. 

As an example I have the two Che films on Blu-Ray.  If I add the filter runtime less than 6 hours, the two films appear as a parent child collection, only sortable by total run time.  If I change the runtime to less than four hours, the two films appear in the collection list as individual entries and the parent disappears.

The parent has an entry of 269 minutes as total running time for the two films.  As this is between 4 and six hours, I can understand there being a change.  If I remove the time for the parent, i.e. set it to zero, it always appears as a collection.  If I set it to a large number like 1000 minutes it always appears as only the two child items with a runtime filter, but I'd rather not do this as somethimes its nice to watch all films in a series.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks,
Jon.

Thanks Muckl,

I hadn't used the tags feature before.  That works perfectly!!

I'll check out Mark's Database Query plugin too, sounds like there could be some useful stuff in there too.

Thanks again.