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cjdshaw
Helpful | Level 6
6 years ago

Illegal characters in IFTTT tags

I'm surprised that nobody else has flagged this, but a common use for IFTTT / Dropbox is:

 

IF

some event happens or data becomes available

THEN

log or download it to a file in Dropbox, named for when it happened

 

Most triggers include a {{CreatedAt}} or {{OccurredAt}} tag to allow this, but it's usually in a readable format like

April 7, 2020 at 01:31PM

or

07/04/2020, 01:31pm

 

This means that the created Dropbox files don't sort properly, and contain illegal characters for Windows. Could the Dropbox actions provide their own ingredients? Like

{{ISO8601time}} 2020-04-07T123100Z

{{FilenameFriendlyTime}} 2020-04-07_13-31

 

or at the very least, offer an option to sanitise incoming filenames to convert illegal characters to underscores

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