One of the nice customizations that Dashboards provide is the ability to create shortcuts to commonly used actions in Control. Did you know that you can create a shortcut to any file in Windows and Control will attempt to open it with the default provider.
Concept
Control allows you to add a file as a dashboard shortcut. You can add it as a URIURI = Uniform Resource Identifier. See the wikipedia entry on File URI scheme for more information on URIs and URI syntax. , but you can also add it directly as a file.
Steps
- Open or create a Dashboard. Be sure that the Dashboard is Unlocked.
- Add a Shortcut instrument.
- Click on the Add Instrument button, then choose General and Shortcut.
- Move the shortcut instrument to where you would like it.
- Click on the edit link at the top right of the dashboard instrument. This will open the instrument editor.
- Add a new File shortcut.
- Click on the Add* button, and choose File**.
- Click in the “X” at the top right of the box to return to the Dashboard with the added link.
- Enter the file path and name of the document.
- The file type (extension) will be used to determine what action to take when the shortcut is pressed.
- If you omit the file name, Control will open the folder in Explorer.
- You can enter a network path as well as a local drive path.
- Save the Dashboard to preserve your new link in the next Restart.
Source
Contributor: Team Cyrious
Date: 03/2010
Version: Control 4.0+
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