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Here is an example you can use.
If you click on step 1 - 3 as the attached image shows, you can make a rule that fits your preferences.

Thank you, that ${sourcepath} entry works perfectly!

But I have so far just managed to make a command for one shortcut. How can I generate multiple shortcuts within the same User Defined Command?
(If I have more than one MC.Utils.CreateLink in the command window, it just uses the first command)

Sounds like the perfect opportunity to learn some Multi Script 

AlanJB,
Do you have a website you would recommend for looking into this? (I have no knowledge about this at all)

Thank you, both Mathias and AlanJB! MC just gets better and better I tried to check out the Online Documentation before I asked here, but it had no content about the panel tabs, http://multicommander.com/docs/paneltabs

["Lock Tab"]

The two settings "Lock Tab" and "Lock Tab - Allow subpath change" - what is the purpose of them?

I have a few sets of tabs I regulary use, and thought to try out the "Lock Tab" option. But I don't get how it works?

When I lock a tab, I expected it to stay the same when MC relaunches. But instead it just view the C:\ root path.
I allso expected that when I open a new folder in a locked tab - but allowing subpath change, it would create a new tab and jump to it, while the original tab stays the same.

What am I missing here?

[Template_Folder]

Thank you for the reply.

The only thing in the shortcut that needs to change is two path-names.

D:\Template_Folder\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Bob\templates-shortcut.lnk
Should change to
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Bob\templates-shortcut.lnk

And the folder "Projectnr_12345" is the only name that changes in all the different shortcuts for every new project

I have no knowledge in making scripts, so I need help in making one if that would be a solution for my case 

I don't imagine any File Commander on the planet could cope with that scenario!

- Ok, thats a pity. I have seen that MC has a lot of options when copying files so I had hoped that one of them would work for my scenario.

(...), but can I ask why the shortcuts?  Which application uses these templates - or the shortcuts?  How many are we talking about?

- I work in a small team where we have to organize the "file flow" so all co-workers know where to find everything. Shortcuts make this a lot easier for everyone. Some of them, myself included, use CAD-application for the projects. Everyone has its own work-folder, but some of the files do we have to share.  The CAD-application allways start in the work-folder when we are opening/saving a new file. So having a shortcut in each work-folder pointing to all the different "shared" folders (10+ different folders, on different locations in the project folder) is a real time-saver.

(Small) Example:

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D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Bob
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Bob\Exref-shortcut.lnk
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Bob\recources-shortcut.lnk
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Bob\templates-shortcut.lnk
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Bob\Old versions-shortcut.lnk
<all shortcuts with same name pionts to same path>
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Ed
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Ed\Exref-shortcut.lnk
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Ed\recources-shortcut.lnk
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Ed\templates-shortcut.lnk
D:\Projectnr_12345\CAD-drawings\Workfolder - Ed\Old versions-shortcut.lnk

This is not a huge issue, but it's really time-consuming to re-make these shortcuts manually for every new project.

You could, for example, copy the folder/file structure and then use VBScript or Powershell or a free tool like XXMLink to create all your shortcuts in the new structure.

- That could work, but I have no knowledge of how I should set up a script to make this.

I have a project template folder with subfolders, template files and shortcuts (pointing to different paths in the template folder)

Every time I start a new project I copy the template folder to a new path and rename it to the new project name. Problem is, as you sure can imagine, that all the shortcuts in the new project folder points back to the template folder.

- Does Multi Commander have a feature to solve this issue?