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Calvin-Nickelson
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

File Request File Name Issue

Hi everyone!   Just checking in here to see if anyone has any ideas for how to work around this!   I work for a company where we collect thousands of files a week to submit to clients.  We us...
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Jay
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3 years ago

Simply having the default filename in the naming convention window would be enough, like so. 

 

 

You can test this yourself by uploading various filetypes with different names to see how they appear on your account.

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Calvin-Nickelson
Helpful | Level 5
3 years ago

Hi Jay,

 

Any update here given Rich's post below confirming this issue?  

 

Thanks so much!

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