How to rename files when saved to S3

SumitC · July 9, 2021, 3:07pm

Does anyone know how to rename files when saved to S3?

I haven’t been able to figure it out or find any documentation for it.

boston85719 · July 9, 2021, 7:11pm

This may be a feature that is only available on certain plans?

I would reach out to Bubble support if no users have a solid answer. I haven’t found a way yet either.

bartek.dev · July 9, 2021, 8:43pm

hidden gem…

SumitC · July 10, 2021, 1:46pm

Thanks guys

@boston85719 I am already on Pro plan and contacted support. Will try again today.

@bartek.dev I used the same approach but it didn’t work for me. Can you try if it changes the name of file in file manager for you?

boston85719 · July 10, 2021, 1:53pm

I tried @bartek.dev and did not see any change to the file name in the file manager, or in the file URL

SumitC · July 10, 2021, 1:54pm

I agree with you. Same here

bartek.dev · July 10, 2021, 3:04pm

I think you have to always include file type as in name.svg, name.png etc

bartek.dev · July 10, 2021, 3:28pm

unfortunately you have to use regex to make dynamic text work (or am I missing something obvious?)

Regex: .[0-9a-z]+$ That will get you the file extension - works in safari

SumitC · July 10, 2021, 3:55pm

@bartek.dev I just tried that on Safari as well. It doesn’t change the name for me.
I used a png file and gave every uploaded png file a static name of ‘sumit.png’. Nothing changed in file manager.

Can you check the file manager that the name of Image/url is getting changed? If yes, I’d appreciate more info on how are you doing it.

SumitC · July 10, 2021, 4:04pm

This works well for extracting the extension though. Thanks for sharing this

bartek.dev · July 10, 2021, 4:24pm

I promise it did work for me just a sec ago and now nothing works…

Bug report time

SumitC · July 10, 2021, 4:26pm

No worries. Thanks for to helping out and regex

gnelson · August 16, 2021, 4:37pm

So bubble added the ability to rename files but there’s no documentation on how to do so? Frustrating! @josh

gnelson · August 16, 2021, 5:07pm

This appears like it should work, but the file name doesn’t change.

HAs anyone figured this out?

Thanks,
George

myflappd · August 16, 2021, 5:23pm

It only works with files generated via external API. I know this after 13 emails to Bubble. Hope it helps

gnelson · August 16, 2021, 5:28pm

@myflappd,
@josh

Thanks for this information.

I wonder why that would be the case? The action is available in the workflow for uploading a file.

I wonder why when they said they added this feature they didn’t provide any documentation on how to accomplish it.

I wonder why it took 13 emails for them to get around to telling you the feature’s limitation?

George

appsheet · August 17, 2021, 11:48am

Eu perdi 2 semanas da minha vida nisso. hahah

philledille · August 23, 2021, 9:27am

I created an API call in the app, then call that using the API connector (aka calling the original app). I get the file that way, but renaming does not seem to bite:

What am I missing?

Best, Peter

myflappd · August 23, 2021, 9:47am

Not really sure. Looks correct setting.

Have you tried removing the .txt extension.

philledille · August 23, 2021, 11:26am

I did, and I tested using the same extension as the original file. No luck.