SageMC Custom Menus

[wayner]

I am just switching over to SageTV7 and I am using Sage MC which I installed through the new Plugin manager. I am trying to add a menu item that goes right to part of my Video Library - I had this exact same customization in V6. The new menu item shows up but I don't see any files - has something changed with V7?

Can you still customize your menu in SageMC in V7 or is this functionality gone?

Here is the syntax of my custom menu item:

        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Isabella">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\sageserver\\f$\\videos\\Isabella's Shows")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>

And here is the syntax that I used on my old V6 server:

        <internalScreenMenuItem icon="hover_my videos.png" screen="Video Library Folder View" title="Isabella">
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExprs", new_java_util_ArrayList())</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>java_util_List_add(PathFilterExprs, "\\\\standrews\\videos\\Isabella's Shows")</evalExpression>
            <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("PathFilterExcludes", false)</evalExpression>
        </internalScreenMenuItem>

[gplasky]

Wasn't the ability to customize menus in SageMC actually based on Dynamic Menus? Dynamic menus plugin was actually built in as a part of SageMC. My understanding is Dynamic Menu does not function for SageTV 7.

Gerry

[robogeek]

It's possible that some of the Dynamic Menu functions do not work in V7, but I'm wondering if the dollar sign (f$) in the UNC pathname might be causing a problem. The dollar sign is used in regular expressions as a special character. So if the Dynamic Menu function call is using that UNC pathname in a Java regular expression, the dollar sign might be causing it some problems. Try creating a new share name instead of using the builtin administrative shares and see if that works. Or you might be able to escape the $ with a \ like f\$ and see if that would work, but I'm not up-to-speed with Java regex handling so I'm not sure about that.

[Fuzzy]

I would recommend not using those admin shares anyways. they are... quirky at best. permissions for them are not as defined as setting up your own share.

[wayner]

Thanks guys I will try changing the share name.

[wayner]

I changed the share but that didn't help - it is likely as Gerry indicated that SageMC is using the dynamic menu functions that aren't supported in V7. The menu item is actually displayed on the main menu you can select it and go into the video library screen but it doesn't see any files or folders.

[Fuzzy]

I do know a lot of the metadata stuff in the core has changed, and that's probably causing the issue (it's filtering it to a property that is not longer the same thing it used to be). It's shouldn't be a problem with the dynamic menus, themselves, but with the video library display in SageMC, when using the PathFilterExprs static context.