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I have a gallery on each of my single entry pages, that includes image files uploaded by my users.

Is there a way to automatically change the filenames of these images upon upload? Something like IMG1074.jpg to entry_title_001.jpg?

I'm outputting the images via CE image, and I have tried the filename= parameter, but that renames all the images within the gallery to the same filename.

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  • Auto renaming files on upload is a bit tricky, but not impossible. We currently are working on a new release of Channel Images, ill try to see if i can sneak that feature in.
    – Manuel Payano
    Feb 13, 2013 at 18:30
  • Would love it if you could work that in!
    – shorn
    Feb 13, 2013 at 19:21

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If there's something unique per-image in the Channel Images output (assuming your gallery is just a dump of all images assigned to the field), you should be able to append that unique value to your entry_title, right?

filename="{url_title}_{image:id}"

It's not something I've done, but I'm assuming you can do more with the filename parameter to make those filenames unique.

I think this solution was successfully applied in this question: Renaming image file names.

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  • You're right. I totally forgot the values of channel images. image:id has worked for the output. Still would be nice to have the originals renamed, but will suffice for now.
    – shorn
    Feb 13, 2013 at 19:20

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