{"id":3615,"date":"2015-11-03T21:41:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T20:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2020-11-12T23:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T23:33:50","slug":"how-to-add-more-files-from-a-previously-used-folder-visual-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/how-to-add-more-files-from-a-previously-used-folder-visual-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add more files from a previously used folder (Visual Installer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that you sometimes are in the situation that you need to add more files from the same source folder as some of the files that already are included in your project. But to get there you need to browse through many folders on your hard disk which may take some time.<\/p>\n<p>To simplify and speed up this process we have added a new menu item to the local (right-click) menu in the <strong>File list<\/strong> tab in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/visual-installer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visual Installer<\/a>. The name of menu item is <strong>Add more files from same source folder<\/strong> and the picture below shows where in the menu to find the new choice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi2015-editor-filelist-local-menu-add-from-same-source-folder.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>If you right-click on a file in Visual Installer&#8217;s file list and thereafter choose the <strong>Add more files from same source folder<\/strong> menu item, the <strong>Add files<\/strong> dialog box in Visual Installer will be opened with the files in the same source folder as the selected file listed.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you right-click on a file in Visual Installer&#8217;s file list which source folder is <strong>C:\\My&nbsp;Pictures\\My&nbsp;Second&nbsp;Project<\/strong>, this folder will automatically be chosen and the files in this folder will be automatically listed in the <strong>Add files<\/strong> dialog box (see the picture below). And you can easily add more files from the same folder to the file list.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi2015-editor-add-files-my-pictures-my-second-project.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>See also<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&gt;<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/how-to-view-source-paths-in-the-file-list-in-visual-installer\/\">How to view source paths in the file list in Visual Installer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that you sometimes are in the situation that you need to add more files from the same source folder as some of the files that already are included in your project. But to get there you need to browse through many folders on your hard disk which may take some time. To simplify &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/how-to-add-more-files-from-a-previously-used-folder-visual-installer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to add more files from a previously used folder (Visual Installer)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}