{"id":1348,"date":"2012-03-15T19:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T08:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2019-07-01T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:01:46","slug":"i-often-fake-it-with-subst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/i-often-fake-it-with-subst\/","title":{"rendered":"I often fake it… with Subst"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spend lots of time developing for different clients, and the problem is most clients have their own drive mappings pointing to specific network locations. In a lot of cases, I need to replicate these drive mappings as it\u2019s usually where they store their Workgroup templates for Word, Excel and PowerPoint.<\/p>\n

So instead of setting up all these drive mappings that point to network locations, I use the old SUBST command from a command prompt\u00a0 to create a \u201cfake\u201d drive mapping that points to a local directory.<\/p>\n

Generally I setup a single \u201cClients\u201d directory on my C: drive, and then create a subdirectory for each client in there.<\/p>\n

Then, I use the subst command to map the drive:<\/p>\n

subst t: “C:\\Clients\\Client 1”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now you have a new T: drive mapping that you can use like any other drive mapping.<\/p>\n

Once you\u2019re finished with the mapping, you can remove it with the following command:<\/p>\n

subst t: \/d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you want more info on using SUBST, just check out the Wikipedia article<\/a> which contains some good additional information.<\/p>\n

So who says men can’t fake it? They can now! \"Winking<\/p>\n

Now all we need is a utility to change all of the Word File Locations and to set these drive mappings, then we could easily switch between different Word environments for clients or testing.<\/p>\n

Well as it turns out, I\u2019ve already written one (Ah, nothing like a bit of self promotion) If you\u2019re interested in trying it out, let me know \u2013 it\u2019s very handy if you\u2019re a Word coder, developer or tester, and best of all it\u2019s free. I\u2019ll get around to putting it on the site one day!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here\u2019s a screenshot of the latest build of WordConfig\u2026<\/p>\n

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I spend lots of time developing for different clients, and the problem is most clients have their own drive mappings pointing to specific network locations. In a lot of cases, I need to replicate these drive mappings as it\u2019s usually where they store their Workgroup templates for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. So instead of setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docassist.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}