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Find And Run Robot / Re: Creating a shortcut to a URL
« Last post by mouser on February 15, 2011, 05:53 AM »Welcome to the site iota! Glad you are liking FARR.
Ok so this is easy enough to do but i must say up front that FARR could use a little wizard to make these things easier.
There are a ton of FARR videos by the way that show how to do all sorts of things; you can find them: here.
But to be brief, in FARR any time you want to create a custom thing you can type that does something means you are working with "Aliases/Groups".
So:
Let me know if it works.
ps1.
At some point I need to make a little wizard to guide people through creating basic aliases from within the program. It's not that it's hard but it should be easier to do without looking up help file, etc.
ps2.
If you are creating an alias to a file (not a url) there is actually an easier way -- which is to first find the file using normal FARR searching in normal window, and then right-click on the file and then choose "Add to group alias".
Ok so this is easy enough to do but i must say up front that FARR could use a little wizard to make these things easier.
There are a ton of FARR videos by the way that show how to do all sorts of things; you can find them: here.
But to be brief, in FARR any time you want to create a custom thing you can type that does something means you are working with "Aliases/Groups".
So:
- Open up options and switch to the Aliases/Groups tab.
- Choose myaliases.alias from the drop down in order to select the alias file where your own custom ones go.
- Right click in the list and say "Add new entry"
- For the "Alias Trigger Text" specify the next you want to match on, like: customer logs
- Then in the Resuts list put your urls (including the http) or any other file location, etc.; you can put multiple items in here.
- Leave the rest set to defaults.
- Click Ok and then close options, you are done.
Let me know if it works.
ps1.
At some point I need to make a little wizard to guide people through creating basic aliases from within the program. It's not that it's hard but it should be easier to do without looking up help file, etc.
ps2.
If you are creating an alias to a file (not a url) there is actually an easier way -- which is to first find the file using normal FARR searching in normal window, and then right-click on the file and then choose "Add to group alias".
So the only way it works is if this kind of donation-by-purchase is done on a huge markup item, like a $200 mug. The cafepress shop was initially set up for that purpose, but in effect we never used it for that and instead used it to give away mugs for special events rather than having people buy things directly.
