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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>HOWTO: Create Nested Shortcuts in the Start Menu</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><h3>HOWTO: Create Nested Shortcuts in the Start Menu</h3><b>Document ID: IR02007</b><hr>The information in this article applies to:<ul><li>Setup Factory 6.0</li></ul><hr><h3>SUMMARY</h3><p>This article will explain how to create nested shortcuts in the Start Menu using Setup Factory 6.0.</p><h3>DISCUSSION</h3><p>Sometimes creating nested shortcuts in the user's Start Menu is a good way of grouping 'like' shortcuts. Examples of this might be grouping all the shortcuts to documentation, or grouping all the shortcuts to certain template types together.<br><br>Creating nested shortcuts in Setup Factory 6.0 is a very straightforward process, it should be accomplished using the <b>Create Shortcut</b> action.<br><br><b>Example:</b> In this example we will create the same shortcut in our default Start Menu location (%SCFolderPath%), except we will nest it within the "Help" sub-folder.<br><br>We will create our shortcut using the following Create Shortcut action:<br><br><PRE><code><b>Folder:</b> %SCFolderPath%\Help<br><b>Shortcut description:</b> New Help Document<br><b>Target file:</b> %SrcDrv%\Docs\Help\NewHelp.chm<br><b>Command line arguments:</b><br><b>Working directory:</b><br><b>Icon index:</b> 0<br><b>Use external icon:</b> Unchecked<br><b>Run mode:</b> Normal</code></PRE> Notice that all we had to do was add '\Help' to our folder path (%SCFolderPath%) and we create a nested shortcut, if we wanted to create the shortcut in a folder named 'Docs' within the Help folder we would simply set <b>Folder</b> to be: "%SCFolderPath%\Help\Docs". Creating a nested shortcut amounts to nothing more than creating the shortcut in a sub folder.<br><br></p><h3>MORE INFORMATION</h3><p>For more information please see the following topics in Setup Factory's help file:<br><br><li><b>Command Reference | Actions | Individual Actions | Create Shortcut</b></li><li><b>Command Reference | Reference | Shortcuts</b></li><li><b>Command Reference | Reference | Nested Shortcuts</b></li></p><p>KEYWORDS: Setup Factory, Nested Shortcuts, Shortcuts, Start Menu</p><hr><FONT SIZE=1>Last reviewed: October 8, 2002<br>Copyright © 2002 <A HREF="http://www.indigorose.com" target="blank">Indigo Rose Corporation</a>. All rights reserved.<br></FONT></BODY></HTML>