Custom item - Printable Version

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Custom item - o0nightfire0o - 2019-07-21

so first, im not sure where to post this because its not skin spastic, but here goes. i have the latest kodi and am using aeon tajo. but its not a problem with skins. i have my movies separated to different categories so i need custom menu items, i have movies, animated, adult...etc. when i go to select the default action it looks like this...
video library---sources---animated--- create item here---movies. now after i created that i go to the main menu to click on my custom animated and instead of it showing me my movie list it shows like a playlist view or something and i always have to click it to get into my movies. is there a way to set it up to just lead me into the movies?

RE: custom item help please - Karellen - 2019-07-21

@o0nightfire0o

Yes, it is a skin issue. I will move you to the Aeon Tajo forum.

Best you detail what method you used to separate movies into different categories.

Custom home items (wiki)

RE: custom item help please - o0nightfire0o - 2019-07-23

my movies are in separate folders in my computer and i add the different sources to kodi

RE: custom item help please - the_other_guy - 2019-07-24

showing me my movie list it shows like a playlist view or something and i always have to click it to get into my movies. is there a way to set it up to just lead me into the movies?
my movies are in separate folders in my computer and i add the different sources to kodi

you could do it with nodes
(plugin.library.node.editor)

xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<node type="filter">

    <label>mpeg link</label>

    <content>movies</content>

    <rule field="path" operator="contains">

        <value>E:\mpg\</value>

    </rule>

</node>

menu
(if you make a custom folder in \library\video\ "folder" it will show up in video and you can add to favourites to get the link for the menu)
<favourite name="row1">ActivateWindow(Videos,library://video/movies/titles.xml/,return)</favourite>
the link is ActivateWindow(Videos,library://video/movies/ypur file.xml/,return)

RE: custom item help please - mardukL - 2019-08-03

o0nightfire0o ' Wrote: my movies are in separate folders in my computer and i add the different sources to kodi

You can try to create your own smart pkaylists.

e.g.

Here is a working example,
(the " "everything between  can simply deleted if wished and is just for commenting)

xml:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<smartplaylist type="movies">

    <name>Movies in Movie-Source-Folder named Action</name>

    <match>one</match>

    <rule field="path" operator="contains">         <!-- using 'startswith' seems to need full path, when using android, may you like to use 'contains' instead  -->

        <value>\Action\</value>                        <!-- 'startswith' - H:\Filme\Action\ , 'contains' - '\Action\' -->

    </rule>

    <order direction="ascending">sorttitle</order>     <!-- 'ascending' or 'descending' for sorttitle , random (Note that random should be used with care - it is quite slow if the returned results from the <rule> sets is large e.g. more than 500 items )  -->

    <limit>0</limit>                                <!-- The 'limit' tag simply takes a number of songs as it's limit. A missing limit tag, or <limit>0</limit> will retrieve all matches -->

    <group>none</group>                                 <!--https://kodi.wiki/view/Smart_playlists#Grouping tag allows to group the resulting list of media items by a specific category. The final list will consist of folder nodes containing matching media items.

                                                        Depending on the type of the Smart Playlist the following grouping categories exist

                                                        none , genres , years , actors , artists , directors , writers , studios , countries , sets , tags -->

</smartplaylist>

RE: custom item help please - 2nzy2 - 2020-04-18

(2019-07-24, 03:25)the_other_guy Wrote: showing me my movie list it shows like a playlist view or something and i always have to click it to get into my movies. is there a way to set it up to just lead me into the movies?
my movies are in separate folders in my computer and i add the different sources to kodi

you could do it with nodes
(plugin.library.node.editor)
xml:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<node type="filter">

    <label>mpeg link</label>

    <content>movies</content>

    <rule field="path" operator="contains">

        <value>E:\mpg\</value>

    </rule>

</node>
menu
(if you make a custom folder in \library\video\ "folder" it will show up in video and you can add to favourites to get the link for the menu)
<favourite name="row1">ActivateWindow(Videos,library://video/movies/titles.xml/,return)</favourite>
the link is ActivateWindow(Videos,library://video/movies/ypur file.xml/,return)

IS NOTORIOUS FOR FORGETTING FAVOURITES
WILL DO THE SAME THING AS O.P.'S ORIGINAL PROBLEM