Re: Q: setting/changing search path for links by id

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

I think you are looking for the variable org-id-locations-file. This
file contains entries like ("~/vc/journal/2018/03/29/2018-03-29.org"
"A6509542-9C85-46ED-BFE3-715CE44BAA70") and is used to create a hash
table that provides a way to search for Ids. You can see it still holds
information to a file name, so if these change, then at some point the
location file will be out of date and need to be updated.

I think the function org-id-find is used to search for ids.

You can add files with the function org-id-update-id-locations.

I hope that helps.


Julius Dittmar writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use links for cross referencing. As filenames are very prone
> to change in my system, I'd like to use IDs for those links.
>
> What I could not fathom yet is how the search path for those IDs is created.
>
> Is there a way of (session-globally) setting that search path, in a
> specialized init file for example?
>
> Is there a way of adding a directory to this search path from inside an
> org file?
>
> Thanks for any hints,
>
> Julius


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