Creating a start menu shortcut

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We have created a few shortcuts using the "create shortcut" command and they are called before Apply install and works fine. Now we need to add one more shortcut whose target is constructed from variables that are created after the Apply Install. The problem is that we need this last shortcut to be created but we can't call Apply Install a second time (if we do our install time doubles since there's a lot of calls to Install files).

Is there any other way to create a short cut which is not dependant on Apply Install? Is there some dll we can call instead?