Setting the FULL filename via the .properties file

[tpaige]

When creating a new document from a template, I understand that you can customize a filename using via the filenamePrefix and filenameSuffix parameters. Is it possible to set the ENTIRE filename? I would like the generated filename to contain ONLY the current date, for example, 2021_01_01.dita.

What I've done:

• Disabled the "Use the title to generate the file name" option in DITA / topics.

  

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• Added filenamePrefix=${date(yyyy_MM_dd)}

The generated filename contains the "untitledxx" string. Is there a way to prevent this from happening so that the generated filename contains ONLY the date?

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[sorin_carbunaru]

Hello,

I cannot think of a way of properly doing this. I believe that usually a filename is manually provided or generated based on the title, to reflect the content.

If you don't need a title for your DITA topic, perhaps you could re-enable the option to generate the filename from the title, and only provide an underscore as the title. We have an extra-processing step that removes leading underscores from the filename, but we still try to generate a name from the title, and you should get the desired result ("untitled" is removed). It looks like a fortunate coincidence for your use-case.

Unfortunately, there is a bug when trying to set the prefix in the text field, and often times you won't be able to do this, because of the special characters of the editor variable ($, {, }). I logged this issue internally on EXM-47480.

Best wishes,
Sorin Carbunaru
Oxygen XML Editor

[tpaige]

Thank you very much for your help!

[Radu]

Hi,

As an update we released Oxygen 24 which should have a fix for issue EXM-47480 described above.

Regards,
Radu