Who may request what — and how much
The moment more than one person joins in, a pleasant interface becomes a question of agreement: may everybody request anything? What if somebody adds thirty shows in one evening? Nexview answers that with three roles, quotas and approvals — each adjustable, and cautious by default.
Administrator, approver, user
The administrator sets things up and manages them: services, accounts, quotas. The approver may only approve, reject and cancel requests — nothing else. The user browses and requests.
That separation is the actual point: somebody helping with approvals needs no access to your Radarr keys. An approver never even sees the settings.
New accounts come from an e-mail invitation. The invitee picks username, display name and password themselves; the invitation lasts seven days. You only set address and role — everything else you adjust on the account afterwards.
Quotas per period
Per account you set how many films and how many shows may sit inside it — per day, per week or per month. Films and shows count separately, because a show with eight seasons is not a film.
Under the fields it says what has already been used in the running period. The requester sees the same thing under My requests before clicking — not afterwards as a refusal.
If a request is cancelled, its place in the quota is freed again. That is no detail: otherwise one misstep would lock somebody out for the rest of the week.
Automatic approval
People you trust get automatic approval: their request goes straight to Radarr or Sonarr, with no detour past you. Separately for films and shows — and separately for 4K, because that is another order of magnitude.
For administrators and approvers it is always on anyway; the switches sit there greyed out rather than pretending to have an effect.
And there is a third way: you can decide that the approver picks the target folder — then the requester enters no destination at all, only the wish, and you decide where it goes when approving.
Two ways to block
Blocked quality profiles apply per account and per instance: whoever may not request 2160p does not see the profile in the list. No tick means every profile is open.
The block list is something else. It concerns individual titles, applies to everybody and works the other way round: the title stays visible but cannot be requested. That is the difference from parental controls, which never show the title at all.
Why visible? Because a vanished title produces questions (“why can't I find this?”), whereas a blocked one gives an answer.
