Related Documents - New Functionality

[TonyDuke]

I am looking to dynamically rename documents on upload using the dropped documents function, my idea is to simply prefix the existing name with the current Unix timestamp in seconds, this way I can almost guarantee a unique name; so I was think something along the lines of: -

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fd.updateDroppedDocuments($('.emailUpload), function(listItem) {
    //new name for the file:
    var prefix = Date.now() / 1000 | 0;
    var currentName = [i]Unsure of the code to get the current name?[/i]
    var newName = prefix + currentName;
 
    //file name with the current directory:
    var newFileName = listItem.get_item('FileDirRef') + '/' + newName;
 
    //finally, renaming the file after all the code:
    listItem.get_file().moveTo(newFileName);
});

Any help with the code would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

[Nikita Kurguzov]

This should work:

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fd.updateDroppedDocuments($('.emailUpload'), function(listItem) {
    //new name for the file:
    var prefix = Date.now() / 1000 | 0;
    var currentName = listItem.get_fieldValues().FileLeafRef;
    var newName = prefix + currentName;
 
    //file name with the current directory:
    var newFileName = listItem.get_item('FileDirRef') + '/' + newName;
 
    //finally, renaming the file after all the code:
    listItem.get_file().moveTo(newFileName);
});

Don't forget the second quote mark in $('.emailUpload')

[TonyDuke]

Hi Nikita,

Ok so this works, the document is uploaded all the fields I want setting get set and the document is renamed.
One little thing on the document being renamed it disappears from the related items viewer, on save the Linking Items dialogue still appears and on checking the document library it is there, renamed and all correctly linked to the parent, it shows up in the display and edit forms.
This isn't a huge issue, but from a user point of view a new or inexperienced user could think the function had failed and upload multiple copies of the same document.
Is there any way around this?

Thanks again for all your help.

[Nikita Kurguzov]

So it seems that after renaming the document, it does disappear if you have filtering set up to show only new items. So it shouldn't be a problem for Edit Form. But there is a solution for New Form as well. If you place listItem.update(); after renaming the file, it will still display the file, but it won't show the new name until you refresh the page. So, the file will get renamed, it will get stored with the new name, but you won't see it straight away.

So, your final code will look like this:

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fd.updateDroppedDocuments($('.emailUpload'), function(listItem) {
    //new name for the file:
    var prefix = Date.now() / 1000 | 0;
    var currentName = listItem.get_fieldValues().FileLeafRef;
    var newName = prefix + currentName;
 
    //file name with the current directory:
    var newFileName = listItem.get_item('FileDirRef') + '/' + newName;
 
    //finally, renaming the file after all the code:
    listItem.get_file().moveTo(newFileName);
    listItem.update();
});

Hope this answer helps!