Honour SHORTCUTS documents in the AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\NewPlus\Templates

[SirClickALot]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

This is a brilliantly useful thing!

Just one key suggestion from me...

I think that if a SHORTCUT to a document is placed in the AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\NewPlus\Templates then that shortcut should be honoured and the linked document should be instantiated, not the shortcut.

Scenario when this would be used?

The current version essentially requires you manage a separate set of templates from those that you may have around your system in a variety of different places.

So, currently, if you update one of your templates you then have to COPY it over to the AppData\Local\Microsoft\PowerToys\NewPlus\Templates folder all over again.

[Jay-o-Way]

FYI @cgaarden

[cgaarden]

I really like this idea. I hope to add this support in a future release.

In the mean time you could try and use mklink.exe from the command line if you are interested. Let me know how that goes.

Thanks for sharing!

[SirClickALot]

Any progress here in terms of enabling this in the app by default.
I understand the mklink idea but that won't really work for less techie students who I would have to explain the concept.

Really does seem to me as though it should be a given that shortcuts refer to their targets since there is no value in creating 'instances' of shortcuts.

Thanks