[GNC] Transaction Linked Document - acceptable Linked Location values

[Patrick James]

Kalpesh,

FOSS only.

I suggest taking a look at a DMS. Today some very good DMS are available as FOSS. I personally use paperless-ngx, but there are various other options. Once you move up to a DMS, the options to use the document link in GnuCash increase greatly.

When I want, I simply put the link to the document in GnuCash, which is structured by server name (e.g. servername:port/specifics/for/document)

Real Example: servername:8010/documents/2431/details

That's a link to the document assigned serial 2431 in my paperless-ngx system.

Because paperless-ngx uses a full database, there are other ways to get to the same end without using the serial numbers. It also has OCR, so generally I can simply search for what I want in paperless-ngx without even the need to find the link in GnuCash. Also if I don't have the link in the document field, then I most often can quickly find what I need just based on dates.

Again, FOSS only. There is no charge for anything related to paperless-ngx, and the code is fully available.

https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

I offer the above only as my personal solution to many of the challenges related to the transaction linked documents.

> On 01/30/2026 1:46 PM PST Kalpesh Patel <kalpesh.patel at usa.net> wrote:
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> No worries - I got the idea you.  I also wanted to have a links to estate documents which don't nicely fall into one of those assets where opening balance entry can server as a document link. I may be a bit overboard in trying to keep individual entries for them hence the second use case.
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> As for the virtual account, I'll merge it with the broker's actual account (where I keep track broker transactions like money transfers, interest received, etc.) and then point the opening balance to the folder which removes that one level. I do, however, want to track individual commodities in each account hence it can serve both function by a single parent account.
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