Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Naming rules when exporting multiple Maps from a Map Series

The value of the field that specifies the Map Name (a Map Series property) will be used. If there are several Maps with same Name the ID will be appended to the name.

Any invalid filename character (\/:*?"<>) will be replaced with an underscore "_".

Example
ID: 100, Name: Map A
ID: 101, Name: Map B
ID: 102, Name: Map A

The resulting filenames will be:
Map A.pdf
Map B.pdf
Map A (102).pdf

In case there are duplicate filenames after the ID is added, a number will also be added.

Example
ID: 100, Name: Map A
ID: 101, Name: Map A (102)
ID: 102, Name: Map A
ID: 103 Name: Map A

The resulting filenames will be:
Map A.pdf
Map A (102).pdf
Map A (102) (2).pdf
Map A (103).pdf

2 comments:

RH said...

Would be nice to get a warning if a file exists, perhaps with an option to "Overwrite any existing output file".

Martin said...

There is a warning if the file exists. Im also planning to add that overwrite without prompt option.