Found it.

Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Path head for Transaction Association
Files.

Now i just need to experiment with it to see how it behaves.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 10:43 AM Justin Haynes <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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