Adding bookmarks to the Tree

mjbrookes · Post by **mjbrookes** » 2007 Sep 19, 11:33

Hello,

Is it possible to add bookmarks to the Tree view?

I see that MyDocuments is displayed within the tree, but that My Music is not, I would like to add My Music to the tree, then in principal I would like to be able to add other bookmarked folders to the tree.

For example about 5 levels down from c: I have a folder for my website files. This folder has many subfolders and quite a few sub-levels. I would like to put a bookmark on the top level of the tree, so that I do not have to find my way down the first 5 levels each time I want to use it.

I realise that I can bookmark that window to show that folder, but I like the features on the tree that allow me to scroll up & down the branch and have the folder files display in the first pane. The current bookmark to the folder means that I have to click-into & out of every folder that I want to review.

Is this clear? I hope so, anyway, is ther any way to do this?

regards
MArk

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Sep 19, 14:12

mark, what you need is the scrap pane (View menu) that's available in the professional version, then you can have something like this picture
http://www.zabkat.com/pic/s2a.png

mjbrookes · Post by **mjbrookes** » 2007 Sep 19, 15:12

Hello Nikos

Thank you for your reply. I have downloaded the Trial Pro versions to see if Mini Scrap pane was what I wanted. I have done a bit of testing & a Bit of reading the manual.

I can see that the mini scrap pane can be useful however I have not been able to get it to do quite what I was looking for. I managed to get it to work like a Bookmark. What I want is for something to work like the Tree-view - but just for a branch of the tree. IOW once I specify which folder is to be the "root" of the Branch, I want the tree functions to work for all the files & sub folders. (especially as I browse the subfolders in the tree I would like the files in each subfolder to appear in the first pane).

Can I get the mini scrap pane to work like a branch of the TREE View?

Can I add a Dummy Branch to the main tree view?
EG MY Documents is really a folder several levels down from c:/ but it shows up at the top level of the Tree view. Can I add my own folders to the Tree-view?

There is so many things that xploere2 can do that I am not sure if I just haven't learned how yet, of if it really cant't.

Regards
Mark

Post by **nikos** » 2007 Sep 19, 16:15

as you've seen the miniscrap is just like a plain flat view, so it can't be made tree=like

it is possible to use the /R: optional command line switch to restrict the tree and everything else to browsing into a limited branch, e.g. /R:c:\documents would only allow you to browse under c:\documents and nowhere else. But if you had to jump to D: say, you'd be stopped

mjbrookes · Post by **mjbrookes** » 2007 Sep 19, 16:49

Hello Nikos

Thank you for your reply.

I understand your idea & it's limits, thanks for it.
I have thought of an alternative.

It is a bit klunky and I foresee problems in the future with my drives & network, and I can't create as many as I want , however it works reasonably well for now:-

If I Map the target folder as a Network drive then it will be included in the TreeView.

Clever heh? as a stopgap measure.

How does one make a suggesti0n/FeatureRequest for the next version?
i.e. that users ;be allowed to add folder/branches to the Tree View. (I think from reading the manual that these might be called 'nodes?)

regards
Mark