User-Defined Commands (UDCs) are menu commands that let you decide where to place them in the menu, what their caption is, and what they do when clicked. As with all menu commands in XYplorer, you can optionally assign keyboard shortcuts to them. UDCs are all located in the User menu. At the top of this menu you will find the item "Manage Commands...". Let's take a look at some examples...

Example #1: Going to Mars

Do you have to visit D:\Company\Projects\2024\MarsLanding\TopSecret\ about 25 times a day, 7 days a week? How about a keyboard shortcut, e.g. Ctrl+Shift+M, to get you there?

Here you go:

Managing user commands. (Click to enlarge)

Pressing Ctrl+Shift+M now will instantly beam you up to D:\Company\Projects\2024\MarsLanding\TopSecret\
from wherever you are (assuming the folder exists, of course). It's as simple as that!

A corresponding new menu item "MarsLanding" has been automatically created in the User | Go To menu.

Example #2: Go to the URL in the Clipboard with Firefox

There's a URL on the clipboard that you want to visit with Firefox? A UDC of type "Open" is the fastest way to do this. Just set the Item field to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" <clipboard> (adapt the path to your system, of course!), and assign Ctrl+Alt+F as the shortcut. Now you can use Firefox to open URLs stored in the clipboard with a simple keyboard shortcut.