Quick & Easy Access
Posted by Jason on May 1, 2008
How much time in a day do you spend clicking through files in File Explorer? Sometimes this process can be more painful than being a certain ex major league baseball pitcher right now. Well there is a way to make this a little better if you are working in the same folder or series of folders for an extended period of time. For those of you that use the Design Library on a regular basis you may already be aware of the method to add a folder to the Design Library tab in the Task Manager. In Tools>System Options>File Locations you can set the location of your Design Library but there may be another folder that you don’t want to be included in the Design Library but you still want a spot where you can have quick and easy access to a certain file or folder. Well here is a trick to accomplish this that Matthew Cummins shared at the WMSWUG meeting in March during his presentation.
The first step is to expand the Task Manager tab in User Interface.
After you have done this select the Icon that looks like 3 library books with a star above them and then browse to the folder that you would like added to the Design Library tab and select “Open”.
Now the folder you just added should be in the lineup of items already in the Design Library tab. This folder will now act as Design Library folder and features act by allowing you to drag an item from that folder into your work area and drop multiple instances of the same component at a time.
You can delete these files just as easy by right clicking and select “Delete”. This will delete the folder from this tab but NOT from your hard drive or network location.
