Append To Filename

Many of the tasks have the 'Append to filename' option for web downloads, Ftp , zip or copy files etc..  You can either append Date or Date/Time to the filename or you can add your own Custom Text to your filename.  You can also set the format that you want the Date or Date/Time to be in using the options indicated below in Settings Menu / FilenameFormat dialog.

Appending Custom Text to your filename
You can add your own Custom Text to your filename according to the rules below:
1)  Text         will add 'Text' to the end of the filename (after extension).
2)  P1::Text   will add 'Text' before the filename
3)  P2::Text   will add 'Text' before the extension
4)  P3::Text   will add 'Text' at the end (after extension if an extension exists)
5)  P4::            will add the Date to filename (before extension if an extension exists)
6)  P5::            will add the Date/Time to filename (before extension if an extension exists)
7) You can add multiple Text to your filename using + after each rule used
8) You can also enter task or system variables to be added to the filename, except for the P4:: & P5:: formats which already add the date or date/time.

IMPORTANT:  P1:: , P2:: etc.. should be entered exactly as shown (case sensitive etc..)
Examples:
Filename Custom String Entered Resulting Filename
test.txt -java-$%DATE::ppddyy%$ test.txt-java-012704
test.txt P1::pre_ pre_test.txt
test.txt P2::_beforeExt test_beforeExt.txt
test.txt P2::_$%DATE::ppddyy%$ test_012704.txt
test.txt P3::_afterExt-$%DATE::ppddyy%$ test.txt_afterExt-012704
test.txt P2::_beforeExt_+P4:: test_beforeExt_01-27-04.txt
test.txt P1::pre_+P5:: pre_test01-27-04_12:32.txt

Appending Date or Date/Time
If you select 'Date', the current date is appended to the filename.  If you select 'Date/Time', the current date and time is appended to the filename.  This is useful for archiving purposes.  The date and month are always 2 digit numbers.  If time is appended, the hour and minute are always 2 digit numbers.
Please note that we do not use the standard date time separators like  / or : since they cannot be used in pathnames or filenames on many platforms.  Hence we chose  -, _ , or none as the separators.

Date Format Sequence
This allows you to select the sequence of date , month, and year.

Year Format
You can set a 2 or 4 digit year or choose not to have the year appended to your filename.

Date Time Separator
This sets the separator between the date and time parts if the 'Date/Time'  'Append to Filename' option is selected.

Date Component Separator
This sets the separator between the date, month and year.

Time Component Separator
This sets the separator between the hour and minute, and between minute and seconds, if seconds are to be added also.

Include Seconds
Select this option to append the seconds after the minute.