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Ok I'm not sure if this has been covered yet, but here goes I'm using the default Confluence Theme and looking at using the Aeon 5 if it can't do what I want but this is more of a general question rather than a theme question.

On Main Screen I have the following Menu's Enabled

Videos
Movies
TV Shows
Music
System

I have Movies linked to \\192.168.1.15\Movies
I have TV Shows linked to \\192.168.1.15\Shows
I have Music linked to \\192.168.1.15\Music

I would like to add another menu that will use a scaper but when I add it, I get three options TV Shows, Movies, Music Videos.. I want to use Movies so it scraps the information but I do not want it added to the "Movies" Main Menu button I only want those added to the new button. How can I accomplish it so it looks like this on the Main Menu / Links

Videos
Movies
TV Shows
Music
New Item
System

I have Movies linked to \\192.168.1.15\Movies
I have TV Shows linked to \\192.168.1.15\Shows
I have Music linked to \\192.168.1.15\Music
I have Music linked to \\192.168.1.15\New Item

Any help would be appreciated.

Use one of the modified Confluence skins that allows you to customize the main menu options, including the creation of custom shortcuts. Assuming you have all your movie files from both the "Movies" and "New Item" folders scanned into your library,

• create a smartplaylist that includes Movies from path that starts with "\\192.168.1.15\Movies"
  
• create another smartplaylist that includes Movies from path that starts with "\\192.168.1.15\New Item"
  
• using the GUI settings, hide the main menu option for Movies (which lists all movies in your library)
  
• create a custom main menu shortcut called "Movies" that invokes your first smartplaylist (which lists only movies in the \Movies path)
  
• create a custom main menu shortcut called "New Item" that invokes your second smartplaylist (which lists only movies in the \New Item path)
  

Will the above advice give you the library count also ?

What I'm worried about is if I add anything in the "New Items" and its scaped into the "Movies" to use the scaper it will then show in the Movies sections. If that makes sense

That's why I said to hide the normal "Movies" menu option (which does show all movies in the library from both of your physical locations) and to replace it with your own "Movies" shortcut which launches your smartplaylist that only shows movies from the "\\192.168.1.15\Movies" path. Likewise, your "New Items" shortcut launches your smartplaylist that only shows movies from the "\\192.168.1.15\New Items" path.

Ok I've done that and it works great the for "Movies" for the playlist, but it seems my other videos aren't scaping properly so it won't show any in the playlist, is there a way to force that submenu link to show the folders/files even though they have no scaped information?

Smartplaylists only work with library content, so you'll need to resolve the issue of why the files in the other location ("New Items", I presume?) aren't being scraped properly.

• Be sure you have defined the content type ("Movies") and scraper (themoviedb or Universal Movie Scraper) for your "\\192.168.1.15\New Items" location.
  
• Is there anything special/different about the files in "\\192.168.1.15\New Items" vs. the ones in "\\192.168.1.15\Movies"? For example, are they foreign titles, home movies, documentaries, porn, etc. that would result in them not being listed among mainstream movie titles on the scraper site? If these titles aren't ones you can readily add to themoviedb site, you can use nfo files to provide metadata information locally so the movies can be incorporated into the video library.