Rename the local document

RE: Rename the local document

Harsha Sharma — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:57:36 GMT

Makes sense! As a workaround, try and make use of the description attribute of the document. If your use case is to move files like these to archival, instead of relying on name, change description to save the value 'test.csv_16072025' using Edit Documents and archive using this field if business agrees

RE: Rename the local document

vijayan544557 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:53:08 GMT

This is basically archival file. So after renaming file will get moved to archive location. As I said this is business requirement and this is how they are maintaining currently in all other non-appian applications. So let me recheck with business for any scope of format change.

RE: Rename the local document

Harsha Sharma — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:48:41 GMT

The value after dot should be a proper extension. Your current output is good as per standards and meets the requirement mentioned in your question! Thus, while there are no ways to rename extensions, its not a good use case to tweak extensions.

[quote userid="299691" url="~/discussions/f/general/39465/rename-the-local-document"]I have a requirement to rename the local file with dateandtimestamp on some condition[/quote]

RE: Rename the local document

vijayan544557 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:46:27 GMT

Thanks for your reply Shubham. This is what the business requirement. Anyways, thanks for confirmation.

RE: Rename the local document

Shubham Aware — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:50:45 GMT

You cannot achieve test.csv_16072025.
Appian requires proper file extensions for file type recognition. The system will always try to maintain a valid extension.

Why can't you use "test_csv_16072025.csv" as you can't change file extension.