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title: "The Gift of Script: Create a Shortcut in Google Drive with Google Apps Script"
author: "Martin Hawksey"
date: 2020-05-13T15:05:00+00:00
modified: 2020-05-15T08:08:44+00:00
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description: "The following Google Apps Script is designed to create a Shortcut to an existing Google Drive folder, within another folder.. For Google Drive pros you can currently place a file in multiple folders, but Google..."
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# The Gift of Script: Create a Shortcut in Google Drive with Google Apps Script

![The Gift of Script: Create a Shortcut in Google Drive with Google Apps Script](https://pulse.appsscript.info/files/2020/05/shortcuts-demo-acme.2019-08-13-09_57_01.gif)

> Image source: [Google G Suite Updates Blog](https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/08/drive-shortcuts-beta.html)
> The following Google Apps Script is designed to create a Shortcut to an existing Google Drive folder, within another folder..

For Google Drive pros you can currently place a file in multiple folders, but Google will be removing this functionality on 30 September 2020. In March [Google announced general availability of shortcuts in Google Drive**](https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2020/03/shortcuts-for-google-drive.html), is is designed to replace the ‘file in multiple locations’ feature. For Google Apps Script developers wanting to migrate to Drive Shortcuts Phil Bainbridge provides this useful Apps Script snippet.

Source: *[The Gift of Script: Create a Shortcut in Google Drive*](https://www.pbainbridge.co.uk/2020/05/create-shortcut-in-google-drive.html)

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*Published by [Martin Hawksey](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/author/admin/) on [Pulse](https://pulse.appsscript.info/). Original article: [https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/05/the-gift-of-script-create-a-shortcut-in-google-drive-with-google-apps-script/](https://pulse.appsscript.info/p/2020/05/the-gift-of-script-create-a-shortcut-in-google-drive-with-google-apps-script/)*