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Changing File Names

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Updated January 11, 2017

asked on June 29, 2015

I am new to this so not sure if I am asking this correctly, but we have hundreds of documents that have already been scanned and named (ex. VA 1975 - 01234). Now we have found that we need to rename all of the files (VA75-01234) removing some of the digits and spacing. Is there a quicker way to do this besides going into each file and "renaming" each individual file name?

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replied on June 29, 2015

Your workflow would be as simple as this. Please note that I made some assumptions in the naming based on your example.

Here are the pattern match tokens.

Here is the rename action dialogue:

%(PatternMatching_First 2 Letters)%(PatternMatching_Year Last 2)-%(PatternMatching_Last 5 digits)

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replied on June 29, 2015

If you have Workflow, you can create a workflow to rename them for you. You would get the current name and then parse out the separate pieces to rename as needed.

Otherwise, you could use SDK to do it.

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replied on June 29, 2015

You can create a workflow / business process where you can use regular expressions in a pattern matching action to first "break apart" the original name into individual tokens, then use those tokens to create the new name in the Rename Entry action. In the past when I have had a similar situation, I have chosen to manually run the business process by selecting the appropriate documents and run the business process, then once completed, altering the workflow so that any new documents are automatically named with the correct format.

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replied on January 11, 2017

If I want to rename all the filename sequence number from 0001 to 0100 or more, How can I do this?

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