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Summary: $UploadSuffixFmt (to work like $UploadPrefixFmt)

Created: 2006-07-05 09:15

Status: Awaiting comments

Category: Feature

From: Henning

Assigned:

Priority: 4

Version: 2.1.7

OS: XP/Apache 2

Description: I'd like to suggest the addition of a variable

$UploadSuffixFmt

that works just like $UploadPrefixFmt except that it does not precede the path name but the file name itself instead.

The benefit: In an application where files are stored in a systematical manner per page (typically using WikiForms), it would be possible to relieve the user from having to think of a unique file name "manually". (The benefit is reaped when downloading and re-using the files.)

Exmaple:

$UploadSuffixFmt='$Name-'
Markup: Attach:Report.doc on page "0001" in group "Reports"
Qualified file name: /uploaddir/Reports/0001-Report.doc

Since I'm using the WikiForms recipe for different applications and the "unique file name" generation problem applies to them all, I guess this is sort of a universally useful mechanism.

--Henning July 05, 2006, at 09:21 AM