Set series begin WITH year, search plugins not ignoring year

@ZileXa wrote:

(please feel free to delete all the topics I created today and solved myself, I was too quick creating them).

My Discover task was ignoring lot's of series, the reason was clear, take for example for NCIS:

2017-07-16 21:08 VERBOSE  next_series_episodes download-series-discover Series `NCIS` has no history. Set begin option, or use CLI `series begin` subcommand to set first episode to emit

My next_trakt_episodes task already set the beginning of each show, but it included the release year in the title of each series. The beginning of "NCIS (2003)" has been set, but no beginning has been set for "NCIS".

When I set the beginning for "NCIS" manually, my Discover task DOES start searching for NCIS.

Is this expected behaviour for Flexget?
According to @cvium in the second post of the following topic, the search plugins should always search series both with and without year:

Also, some series require a release year date, because an older tv show with the same name exists.
So I am not sure what to do here. If I would use strip_dates inside my next_trakt_episodes task, it will remove the date from ALL series.

Is that a wise thing to do? Kodi might need the tv show episode files inside a folder WITH the release year date, otherwise it won't recognise it correctly.

strip_dates
If set to yes the year will be removed from the end of
titles that contain them. (Note that as of 2017, Trakt includes the year
in the title of all television series, even those that
wouldn’t ordinarily need them to distinguish from another series. This
option removes years from all series titles.)

When adding series to Transmission, I do use TVDB series default name, will that include the release year when Kodi needs it to distinguish from other series?

##### Transmission series config#
  transmission-series:
    transmission:
      <<: *transmission-settings
      main_file_only: yes
      include_subs: yes
      rename_like_files: yes
      content_filename: "{{tvdb_series_name|default(series_name)|pathscrub}} - {{tvdb_ep_id|default(series_id)}}{% if tvdb_ep_name|default(False) %} - {{tvdb_ep_name|pathscrub}}{% endif %}{% if quality|default(False) %} - [{{quality}}]{% endif %}"
      path: "/{? folder.root ?}{? folder.downmedia ?}{{tvdb_series_name|default(series_name)|pathscrub}}/"

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