[jdig4240]

I have recently got back into playing with Autowidgets as I trying to mod Aeon Nox Silvio skin to integrate better with it.  As others have pointed out there are some limitations with what can be linked as a shortcut within Autowidget - Favourites being the example most often used although I would prefer being able to have a shortcut to File Manager (seems not possible).  

Curious, cant you just add activatewindow(filemanager) as a custom command in a submenu for File Manager? Or is it because you want File Manager in an Autowidget Group?

I was able to make an AW shortcut for File Manager. It looks like this...
        {
            "label": "File Manager",
            "content": "none",
            "file": {
                "file": "ActivateWindow(filemanager)",
                "filetype": "directory",
                "art": {
                    "icon": "DefaultAddonsSearch.png",
                    "thumb": "special://home/addons/resource.images.skinicons.wide/resources/icons/filemanager.png"
                }
            },
            "color": "white",
            "window": "filemanager",
            "target": "shortcut",
            "id": "search-1634328954.9411094",
            "version": "3.4.2"
        },

But yea, It would be nice if there could be a "Create Custom Shortcut here" option in the context menu while you are inside an AW group like SuperFavorites has. Then be able to add a custom command for the shortcut. Instead of adding a dummy shortcut first and then editing it to work.