I’m a longtime user of MediaBrowser 2.6 with lots of customized menus for local content. I’m new to Kodi, and want to replicate the menu structure in Kodi/Metropolis. I created a “Documentary” source and added a main menu item by the same name. I also created three subfolders under Documentary (Biology, Economics and Technology), and three playlists using the same names.
The playlists all work fine when I go through the Videos/Playlist menus, but I’m having trouble pointing the main menu item to the Documentary source and the submenus to the playlists from within the Home Furniture GUI. On both the “Choose item for Menu” and “Change Action” options, I can choose pre-existing options, but can’t seem to edit these options to point to my new source or playlists. I have two questions:
How do I use the Home Furniture GUI to create custom menu items that point directly to custom sources and playlists?
Is there an xml file that I can edit directly to alter the menu options in the same way I can edit the sources.xml and *.xsm files for the sources and playlists? The only xml file that gets changed when I make changes in the furniture GUI is the script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml file. I’ve tried editing it manually, but the changes I make are overwritten from somewhere else when Kodi restarts.