Better help for Shortcut Launched trigger

As far as I can see, there is nothing in the help about how to make a home screen shortcut for a Shortcut Launched trigger. Right there in the basic Help for each trigger, Shortcut Launched should tell you how to make a shortcut, for the new people. I can't even remember how I got the information, I may have just figured it out by trial-and-error.

I'm sorry if this is redundant somehow. I asked about this issue in the general forum but no one seems to have read my post to the end. Plenty of people told me how to make shortcuts and widgets, but no one told me if the information was already in there and I was just missing it.
 

Snurre

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As far as I can see, there is nothing in the help about how to make a home screen shortcut for a Shortcut Launched trigger. Right there in the basic Help for each trigger, Shortcut Launched should tell you how to make a shortcut, for the new people. I can't even remember how I got the information, I may have just figured it out by trial-and-error.

I'm sorry if this is redundant somehow. I asked about this issue in the general forum but no one seems to have read my post to the end. Plenty of people told me how to make shortcuts and widgets, but no one told me if the information was already in there and I was just missing it.
That help you are searching for has actually nothing to do with MD

This trigger gives other apps/launcher the possibillity to launch a macro, so what you are looking for is the help file in the other app/launcher

 

FrameXX

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In the macro list long press on a macro and choose option to create a homescreen shortcut. Upon pressing this shortcut "Shortcut Launched" trigger will be invoked. That's what you meant?
 
In the macro list long press on a macro and choose option to create a homescreen shortcut. Upon pressing this shortcut "Shortcut Launched" trigger will be invoked. That's what you meant?
The issue I'm trying to raise is that I can't find any help in the program that tells anyone how to do that in order to use the Shortcut Launched trigger. Not for me but for new users. But yes, that is what I meant.
 
That help you are searching for has actually nothing to do with MD

This trigger gives other apps/launcher the possibillity to launch a macro, so what you are looking for is the help file in the other app/launcher

Edit: After reading the link I see that you're right. However, this is also on that page: "For macros that are only designed to be invoked from Android shortcuts it still makes sense to use this trigger to make it clear this is the intended use." In other words, it is good for the sake of clarity. And further clarity for new users is what I'm getting at with this line of thought.
 
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