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On [[Custom Field Type: Link – Single File|Single File]] and [[Custom Field Type: Link – Multiple Files|Multiple File Upload]] fields, you can enforce a file naming convention to files uploaded to SmartSimple. 

To configure this feature, edit the custom field, enter the file name you want to enforce on all files uploaded to this field, and save your changes. 

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The file name restriction feature is [[Variable processor|variable processor]] compatible for both [[Custom Field Type: Link – Single File|single file]] and [[Custom Field Type: Link – Multiple Files|multiple file uploads]]. For example, the following configuration will enforce uploaded files to be renamed to: ''name of the current Level 1 record'' - ''current year'':

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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;  white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  white-space: -pre-wrap;  white-space: -o-pre-wrap;  word-wrap: break-word;">Note: Enforcing a file name does NOT affect the file extension.</pre>
When users upload their files, they will be presented with a message informing them that their files will be renamed per the naming convention you have specified:

[[Image:File Renamed To.png|link=]]


When ''File Name Restriction'' is configured, multiple files uploaded to the same field will be named with version numbers. If your ''File Name Restriction'' is set to ''filename'', the first file uploaded will be renamed ''filename'', the second file uploaded will be renamed to ''V_1_filename'', etc. 

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;  white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;  white-space: -pre-wrap;  white-space: -o-pre-wrap;  word-wrap: break-word;">Note that any spaces in file names specified will be replaced by the underscore character ("_"). Certain special characters including colons, commas, asterisks, percentage signs and question marks in the file names will also be replaced with underscores.</pre>

==See Also==
* [[Custom Field Type: Link – Single File]] 
* [[Custom Field Type: Link – Multiple Files]]
* [[File Type Restriction]]
* [[Display Additional File Attributes for PDF Documents]]

[[Category:Custom Fields]][[Category:Files]]