[Lefrenchman36]

Have latest V of Kodi and am using Amber (not my ideal choice) - but it has the ability to add to the home menu, which my preferred, confluence, can't

Video data is in 3 separate NAS boxes as follows
1) Film
2) TV-Shows
3) Documentaries
each of the 3 have a folder structure of #, A to Z - so 27 sub folders per Box - it's neat and exactly as i need!

the above is NON-negotiable vis a vis change

I have created 2 sources (possibly may have done this in confluence before i switched to Amber) for movies & TV
i now need to
1) create a 3rd source to the documentary NAS
2) add that source to a 'Documentary' menu item on the HOME menu
when i look at settings i can see the two original sources but can neither edit them or create a new one

Need a 'KISS' solution - not some overblown, 'round the houses' dsicusion.

[Karellen]

each of the 3 have a folder structure of #, A to Z

I think the only problem will be with TV Shows. You will need to create 27 Sources for them, otherwise each subfolder will be scraped as a tv show, and all the episodes within each sub-folder will be added to that random show.

when i look at settings i can see the two original sources but can neither edit them or create a new one

Ensure Show "Add source" buttons in file lists is enabled ... https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/Media/Ge...file_lists

add that source to a 'Documentary' menu item on the HOME menu

That should be pretty easy. If you are not sure, ask in the Amber section of the forum. Or follow this guide for AeonNox:Silvo and the process should be fairly similar for Amber.
https://kodi.wiki/view/Custom_home_items/Aeon_Nox_Silvo

[Lefrenchman36]

>>Ensure Show "Add source" buttons in file lists is enabled
thanks for that, i'd forgotten - must have got disabled somewhere
will check and change
>>you will need to create 27 Sources for them, otherwise each subfolder will be scraped as a tv show,
I've got round this by creating a main mode (via Node editor) called A to Z, and under that 27 XML sub nodes
---- for instance
under  -  Owner\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\library\video\movies i have a folder called 'A to Z'
under this 'A to Z' folder there are 28 .xml files ('index', '0-9' and 26 individual letters)
the index.xml is
--------------------------
<node visible="Library.HasContent(Movies)">
    <label>A to Z</label>
    <icon>DefaultMovies.png</icon>
</node>
----------------------
and each of the letters/numbers is
---------------------
<node type="filter">
    <label>A</label>
    <content>movies</content>
    <match>any</match>
    <rule field="title" operator="startswith">
        <value>A</value>
    </rule>

    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Abbot & C</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>De Funes</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Studio Ghibli</value>
    </rule>
</node>
------------------------
the playlist rules are for subfolders under the Film NAS that have multiple movies - so M:/Films/A has a folder called 'Abbot & Costellio' which has all the A&C films and is a playlist
with that rule it displays all films that start with A or the appropriate playlist