HOWTO: Create Nested Shortcuts in the Start Menu

HOWTO: Create Nested Shortcuts in the Start Menu

Document ID: IR02007
The information in this article applies to:
  • Setup Factory 6.0

SUMMARY

This article will explain how to create nested shortcuts in the Start Menu using Setup Factory 6.0.

DISCUSSION

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.

Creating nested shortcuts in Setup Factory 6.0 is a very straightforward process, it should be accomplished using the Create Shortcut action.

Example: 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.

We will create our shortcut using the following Create Shortcut action:

Folder: %SCFolderPath%\Help
Shortcut description: New Help Document
Target file: %SrcDrv%\Docs\Help\NewHelp.chm
Command line arguments:
Working directory:
Icon index: 0
Use external icon: Unchecked
Run mode: Normal
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 Folder to be: "%SCFolderPath%\Help\Docs". Creating a nested shortcut amounts to nothing more than creating the shortcut in a sub folder.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information please see the following topics in Setup Factory's help file:

  • Command Reference | Actions | Individual Actions | Create Shortcut
  • Command Reference | Reference | Shortcuts
  • Command Reference | Reference | Nested Shortcuts

    • KEYWORDS: Setup Factory, Nested Shortcuts, Shortcuts, Start Menu

    Last reviewed: October 8, 2002
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