[GNC] Relative paths in transaction associations

Justin Haynes justin at justinhaynes.com
Wed Feb 13 11:43:46 EST 2019


What provision is there for relative paths in transaction associations?  I
often associate transactions with files where the files are almost always
receipts.  This results in a URL to an absolute path which appears in the
Tools -> Transaction Associations dialog.  Also from a transaction I can
access the file I linked to with Transaction -> Open Associated
File/Location.  The file opens in whatever program is associated for that
file type.

I would rather have relative paths which resolve with relation to an
absolute base path I can figure.  This would allow me to move from system
to system and only change the absolute path on the target system's GNUCash
instance.  I then only use one instance at a time on the same files of
course.  These files exist on local machines but sync with a cloud service
so that the file is available wherever I'd like it to be.

Tools -> Transaction Associations brings up the "All Transaction
Associations" window, where I see columns for the Date, Description,
Association (URL link to the resource, either local (file:// with link to
absolute path) or remote).  There is then an "Available?" column populated
with "Unknown" in each row, and a column called "Relative" with no data.

Since there is  "Relative" field, I assumed there must be some proviision
for this.

Thanks,

Justin


More information about the gnucash-user mailing list