[lbosley]

Thank you Warner306. You pointed me right to the answer! "In Progress" is handled by the skin, and I really like the Estuary skin, so this is perfect.

I now have Kodi's 'In Progress" working for externally played content!

This was accomplished by editing the XML file 'inprogress_movies.xsp' (found in Program Files -> Kodi -> addons -> skin.estuary -. playlists):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
    <name>In-progress movies</name>
    <match>all</match>
    <rule field="lastplayed" operator="inthelast">
    <value>3 weeks</value>
    </rule>
    <limit>15</limit>
    <order direction="descending">lastplayed</order>
</smartplaylist>

The default Estuary skin now includes external as well internally played movies listed in the order of last played. I've been searching for many weeks for this answer. Got to be more people out there wanting this functionality.