Adding a SubMenu to the Start Menu Group

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:01 pm

Hi, I want to have a Start Menu Group like this: My Company Name\\My Product Name.

I enter that information in the Shortcut Folder of the Project Properties page, but when testing the installation returns an error that the Start Menu Group contains invalid characters.

So how can I make this entry work in InstallAware?

Thanks!

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:57 pm

Edhy,

There is no Shortcut Folder field in the Create Shortcut command. There is a Link Location field which is what you should be using.

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:19 pm

Hi Michael,

I am not talking about creating Shortcuts, this is about the Shortcut Folder in the Project Properties page in the Visual IDE.

So when my installation is complete, you should be able to see My Application Folder and then my Shortcuts. Like this:

Start Menu->My Company Name->My Application->My Shortcuts

Right now if I enter in the Shortcut Folder something like:
My Company Name\\My Application

I will get an error.

Hope you can understand my question here.

Thanks.

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:10 am

Edhy,

In my Shortcuts pane of the IDE I have created all my shortcuts with
$SHORTCUTFOLDER$\\Product Name

I even have several that are three levels deep like
$SHORTCUTFOLDER\\Product Name\\Sub Group

Edhy · Post by **Edhy** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:47 am

Hi Jimo,

Thanks for jumping here.

It looks like the Pre-Defined Variable $SHORTCUTFOLDER$ does not exist in the demo version I have 5.12 (Build ponderosa_sp2.060222).

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I enter the following in the Shortcut Folder:
$SHORTCUTFOLDER$\\MyCompany Name\\$TITLE$

and when testing I got this:
$SHORTCUTFOLDER$\\MyCompany Name\\My Title

I also looked at the help file and could not find any reference to this variable $SHORTCUTFOLDER$.

This should be simple entering MyCompany Name\\$TITLE$ what am I missing here?

Thanks again!

jimo · Post by **jimo** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:46 pm

The initial value for shortcut folder is defined in the Project Properties page of the IDE.

The $SHORTCUTFOLDER$ variable is set in the "Main Install" section of the script.

If you use my example in the IDE for the Link Location value it will work as it is designed.