This is very important. and also, common sense. The structure exists already in dreamweaver to use relative links. work to implement that here.

I'm adding my name to the list of people begging for this feature. I'm working on automating a very repetitive ad campaign build that includes two print components, a digital ad component, an email and a static homepage landing image for 19 separate entities within our corporation. I can get everything to automate beautifully on my end but it breaks on the team members desktop. The reason is because the linked file structure is looking in my desktop, not the designers and the export is doing the same.
I'm trying the OneDrive override mentioned here, but it would be much more ideal to be able to set up linked file structures and exports as something more akin to linking assets in html.

Bump! This feature would be incredibly useful for anyone dealing with a team of more than one person.

+1

THIS WORKS WITH SHAREPOINT!!

The important part is to ensure you've set up sync on both devices using the EXACT same location so that the relative folder paths match. Even though InDesign shows C:\Users\USERNAME in the linked file path, it does automatically update on other devices.

Further details can be found here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/linking-an-image-from-sharepoint-online-onedrive-sync/m-p/13885216#M531253

Still waiting to find a proper solution to this, anyone had any other updates?

I can't BELIVE inDesign is not using relative path as the default feature. Adobe DO create tools to create websites afterall, so they must know about this Internet ABSOLUTE (lol) standard. Even in more modest setups like an individual creator that has only TWO computers, between witch they want to move a document, absolute path would ruin everything. Please change this ASAP yess, it really affect anyone's workflow I'm sure.

YES PLEASE. It's even a pain when I go back and forth between my two different computers and I have to fix all the links.

Still not possible to choose relative links in 2022? Hurry up Adobe!

I work with extremely large documents with 10,000 links. The process of duplicating a document and changing the link addresses takes hours. If relative links were incorporated, then it would dramatically simplify the process and save time.

//Script will update the document's links based upon its current location.
var doc = app.activeDocument;
updateLinksRelativeToDocument(doc);
function updateLinksRelativeToDocument(doc){
var docLinksFolder = new Folder(doc.filePath + '/Links');
var docLinksFolderFiles = docLinksFolder.getFiles();

var docLinks = doc.links;
for(l = 0; l < docLinks.length; l++){
var link = docLinks[l];
var newLink = findLinkRelativeToCurrentDocumentLocation(docLinksFolderFiles, link);
if(newLink){
link.relink(newLink);
$.writeln('successfully relinked');
}
}
}

function findLinkRelativeToCurrentDocumentLocation(linksArray, link){
var linkFile = link.name;
for(var i = 0; i < linksArray.length; i++){
var linkToSearch = linksArray[i];
if(linkToSearch.toString().search(linkFile) > -1){
var x = 0;
return linkToSearch;
}
}
return null;
}

I, too, have been experiencing this. I realize this is an old post, but I found this to be very helpful. It fixed my problem.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/graphics-links.html

3/4 down it says this:

"Find missing links"

• To change link settings, open the File Handling section of the Preferences dialog box, and determine whether the Check Links Before Opening Document and Find Missing Links Before Opening Document options are selected.
• To let InDesign attempt to resolve missing links, choose Utilities > Search For Missing Links from the Links panel menu."

The links has always been full path since the past 21 years, I've used Indesign for that long, and even if we Would link to files on example H: (mapped network drive in Windows), it would actually use the underlying UNC path link....imagine when that name is changed? Well, instant break, since they didn't save reference to "H:".

So, will that get fixed? Hardly, its taken 21 years so don't expect the next 20 to be of any different.

Exact same problem in our organization. I rely on relative paths in ArcGIS and it has been around for the exact same amount of time as InDesign.

The easiest workaround is to open your links panel, select all the items which have been moved and say relink to folder and then navigate it to the new folder. It's not perfect but it definitely works if you keep the same folder structure/names and filenames.

I truly just don't understand how this wasn't a feature from early on. How does Adobe use this software internally and not get continually frustrated whenever they need to relink an entire InDesign document?

Any news on this? Seems like a massive oversight....

I'd also love to have this feature. Thanks!

I am yet another dissatisfied customer! All these links and their interconnectivity should be stored in one place and be up for change at the press of a button!
Wake-up Adobe and put this right.

Yup, this is most certainly needed! We have a mix of Mac and Windows machines and we constantly collaborate. Many of our projects share the same images so we are not wasting all the disk space by duplicating images in every projects links folder by using package.