Can we force InDesign to look for links in current directory.

Question

An InDesign document has links to images/InCopy stories located at some location,say, "Dir_1". The copy of all the linked items are present in current directory of InDesign document.
When we open this document in InDesign CS3 , the document is linked with the items under "Dir_1".
If the linked items under "Dir_1" are deleted(while opening the document) InDesign CS3 looks for the linked items in current directory and links them to the document,automatically.
Is there any option/API provided by InDesign CS3 UI/InDesign SDK to force InDesign to look for linked items in the current directory, irrespective of whether the original links are present or missing.

Answer 1

Ha! I've been playing with this all morning long. In the long term, I think we might need a plugin developer, to be honest. In the short term: you could affix a set of Latin-script characters to each word to force the sort order:
ΩUʿUnuq
ΩHḪirbet
ΩLLondon
So: generate an index, grab your place names, peel off the omega, resort the index, then GREP for two caps in succession and peel off the first. I dunno if this would work, I'm not 100% clear on how you are working.
Or, alternately, another way to force a secondary sort order: Go to "Sort Options" in the Index flyout, add a sort order you know you won't be using (Greek?), then learn correct alphabetical sort order in Greek, then prefix all of your placenames with Greek letters, in the way you wanted the final sort to run. What I've been doing is styling my Hebrew glyphs (for indices in Farsi and Kurdish) with a separate character style so they're easier to find and remove.