Button to add shortcut to drop down menu (button)

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Hi all,
I am in need of a button to save the current path as a shortcut to a drop down menu.
I'm at a lose and could really use some help.
Thanks

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The Favorites menu is the usual way to do that. You can then add the current folder to favorites, and it's added to that menu.

It could also be done using Go FOLDERCONTENT and shell shortcuts, but only if you want to avoid using favorites for some reason.

(If the aim is to have something separate from the main favorites list, you can make a button which adds the current folder to a special branch of the favorites tree, and then have a menu which displays only that branch.)

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Thanks for the help Leo. I thought about using favorites but it seems to be an any and everything link.
I may look into using the favorites branch. I do not know how to use go FOLDERCONTENT but I'll look at that as well. Up until now I have a button to save the current location as a new Lister to a pull down menu for the locations on one server and another for a vault server (autodesk inventor). The problem is it opens a new Lister every time. My goal is to go to the different location as needed using the current Lister.

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Another thing that might be useful is you can filter the favorites list by path.

e.g. Put this command in a menu and it will show you only the favorites items that point to things below C:\

Favorites SHOWICONS USEQUALKEYS NOOPENINTABS FILTER "C:\*"

(The FILTER "C:\*" is the important bit. The other arguments are probably wanted as well, but not specific to what we're talking about.)

If you want to look at adding things to a specific favorites branch, and showing only that branch in a menu, have a look at the BRANCH arg (for adding) and the PATH arg (for filtering what's displayed by branch):

https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html#!Documents/Favorites_Command.htm

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Thanks for everything Leo. I’ll work on using the favorites the way you suggested.
I think that will work for me.