Opening a Document in Another Project

When Scrivener opens a document from another project, it also opens that project as well.
For instance, if I have a project of characters with a link in the project I’m working on and I click on the link, it opens the QR Panel (as per my specification), but also opens the characters project.
Is there a way to suppress this from happening through a Scrivener menu option or command. At first, I understood that adding &view-qr would achieve this, but alas, not so.
If not available, it would be a useful feature, since Scrivener is already open based on the project a user is working on.