Create symbolic links in the Script Editor

Hey guys,

Is there any way to make the installer create SYMBOLIC links? I tried a "Run command line mklink /D "%USERPROFILE%\Google Drive\Desktop" %USERPROFILE%\Desktop" But it does not accept environment variables %USERPROFILE% because it says that its not defined. Is there a way to solve this?

Thank you!

Hello,

Because the percent sign is used to signify the value of a variable, you need to use two percent signs next to each other if you want to use a percent sign in the message text of a script command. %%USERPROFILE%% should work fine.

BTW, there is a "Get System Info" -> "Expand Environment Variable" script function to retrieve a specific Windows environment variable value (in case you need this).

Does this help?

Support for symbolic links (NTFS junctions) is planned for SetupBuilder 9.

Friedrich

Hello Friedrich,

First of all, thanks for the help. I tried running a console command doing this:

Code:

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mklink /D "%%USERPROFILE%%\Google Drive\UZ-Desktop" %%USERPROFILE%%\Desktop

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I wasn't sure this worked or not so what I did was add an output to, this:

Code:

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mklink /D "%%USERPROFILE%%\Google Drive\UZ-Desktop" %%USERPROFILE%%\Desktop > %%USERPROFILE%%\Desktop\output.txt

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But that did nothing. On both Run Command Line I activated Show Window, but it doesn't do anything. Here is a screenshot of where its placed in the Script Editor.
http://cl.ly/image/3Z1l1A2K1J0u/Scre...2014.44.01.png

Any tips?

Hello Alejandro,

mklink is a subcommand of CMD.EXE. That means you have to launch the command interpreter and must be run "inside" of CMD.EXE

Something like:

cmd.exe /C mklink yada yada

Does this help?

Friedrich

Thanks Friedrich,

That worked perfectly, it even bypassed the fact that .bat or cmd files require administrator permissions to create a symbolic link.

I'll be having some questions in the future because we bought this software and now we're really using it a lot and I'm new to it.

Thanks and regards

Perfect! Glad it's working fine now.

Always ask if there is any question. I am here to help :)

Friedrich