Checking file name against photo title

I’m afraid I’ve always tried to avoid putting titles in file names wherever possible. That is mainly because I use an operating system that makes things difficult if you put spaces or special characters in file names, but also because I have my own file naming conventions that get disrupted when uploaded files have to be named specially.

Our club adds a prefix to the uploaded filenames that identifies the user and webform, but that is all.

My setup is also prefixing the uploaded filename with webform code and user ID. The question is the original file name which in our case is the title. This title gives us a way to associate the image with a title for easy management outside the Flexishow application. Problem arises when members forget to use the title as file name when uploading, e.g. a file name of 3HA3889.jpg while the title in the Title field is Wonderful Sunset. This results in extra corrective work. Or we would just accept the file name as is and move on.

Is it possible to pull in the title and attach it to the upload file’s file name, like using [~title]?

Yes, if you have the right version of entrywizard. But only if the renaming is done on download. Read the help item next to “Optional Prefix”.

Thanks. I am using version 1.3.20. It is the most current one I believe. All along I have been reading the old version of the Help document so I missed this one completely. I did some testing with complete replacing file name with prefix, [~WFM][~UID]-[~Title]. After submit the upload, on the upload page the file name did not change. But when the image and spreadsheet were downloaded, I could see the new file name in both.
Is this the expected behaviour? Are there any got-you kind of stuff I need to be aware with this setup?

Yes, that’s exactly what should happen. The filenames get changed when you download the images, instead of when you upload. You should be aware that if you ever use ftp to access those image files, the filenames will not match your downloaded ones.

The main help for any item is the popup next to it. The Help page is just a collection of all those items, and may not be as accurate. It seems two versions of the Prefix item were included — thanks for pointing that out, I’ll fix it for the next version.

Thank you.