Approvals
Administrator, approver, user
The administrator sets things up and manages them: services, accounts, quotas.
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Approvals
Quotas that hold
Per account you set how many movies and how many shows may sit inside it.
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Approvals
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.
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Approvals
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.
Three roles
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 invitation. The invitee picks username, display name and password themselves, and role, quotas and, if you like, media server access come along.
Keeping measure
Quotas that hold
Per account you set how many movies and how many shows may sit inside it. The period applies house-wide, per day, per week or per month, set once for everyone. Until 0.19 it sat on each account; three accounts with three different periods explain to nobody what “3 movies” means. Movies and shows count separately, because a show with eight seasons is not a movie.
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.
Trust
Automatic approval
People you trust get automatic approval: their request goes straight to Radarr or Sonarr, with no detour past you. Separately for movies 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.
Limits
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.
New people
Inviting, with media server access
A wizard asks one thing after another: the e-mail address, what the person gets access to, their role, quotas, 4K and whether they see the house rules. It checks every setting against the rules of the installation while you set it; whatever is not possible is locked and says why. The link goes to that address, is valid for seven days and works once. The wizard also shows it right away, in case you would rather pass it on yourself.
Pick Jellyfin or Emby as well, and on redemption Nexview creates the account there, with the name and password the person chooses and only the libraries you ticked. Afterwards Nexview checks what the new account really sees and locks it if that does not match. On Plex, the person signs in with their own account and gets the libraries shared.
And the other way round: when an account is deleted, the dialog shows its accounts on Jellyfin and Emby and its Plex share. Only what an invitation created is preselected. Nexview never deletes an account that manages a server, and if a server fails, nothing is deleted at all.