From one click to a finished file
Somebody sees a film they want and presses a button. What happens next should not concern them — but you, running the thing, want to know exactly what goes where. This page walks the whole way once.
What the requester sees
The detail page says up front where the title stands — not requested, requested, searching or already downloaded. The request button only appears if it is actually missing.
Then a panel opens with two fields: quality profile and target folder. Both are read live from Radarr and Sonarr — the only options offered are the ones that really exist there. If people should not choose at all, they never see the fields.
Series get a third field: individual seasons instead of the whole show. That is the difference between 40 GB and 400 GB.
The state sits on the poster
Once sent, nobody has to ask again. Every card in the catalogue carries its state visibly: what is already there is marked already downloaded, what is running is marked searching.
This is more than decoration. It prevents the single most common duplication — three people requesting the same film one after another because none of them could see it was already on its way.
My requests
Anyone wanting to know what became of their wishes finds them under My requests — with date, state and the quota they have left. Longer lists page in twenties.
The bell up top reports every change: approved, found, finished. Anyone who would rather not know switches it off in their own profile — per event.
Approve — or let it straight through
By default a request lands with you first. You see it in the approval list, grouped by person, and decide. Only with your yes does it go to Radarr or Sonarr — before that, nothing happens there.
People you trust get automatic approval; their requests then run straight through. Separately for films and series, and separately for 4K.
The full story is on the page about approvals, roles and quotas.
What Nexview does in the background
After handover Nexview keeps asking what became of the title and writes the state forward. That is why a card flips to already downloaded on its own, without anybody clicking.
When something goes wrong, the difference matters: a timeout only means the answer went missing — not that the request failed to arrive. Such cases stay at approved and resolve themselves on the next pass.
Only a real failure is shown as one. And a title that failed, was rejected or deleted again can be requested afresh — one mishap does not lock it away forever.
Cancelling really deletes. If somebody cancels a running request, the title is removed from Radarr or Sonarr — including files already downloaded. The requester's quota is freed again in the process.
The same film twice, in 4K
Optionally you enter a second Radarr and Sonarr instance. The same title can then be requested once in 1080p and once in 4K — two files, two folders, two requests that stay out of each other's way.
Root folders and quality profiles belong firmly to their instance. Nexview refuses a profile that does not belong — the ids of the two instances overlap, and Radarr accepts an unknown one without complaint. Without that check the mistake would surface only when the file lands in the wrong folder.
Each user has three switches — 4K films, 4K series, 4K without approval — all off by default. Enter no second address and none of it is visible anywhere.