I would be very interested in seeing responses to this myself - we are in the midst of renaming a couple thousand files in Asset Manager as well.
The process that we are currently using consists of a copy of the Assets directory, and providing users responsible for renaming access to this copy. As they rename files, they move those files into a new folder, update the references to the files by editing source on the pages that reference the files, and then I copy the renamed files back into the Assets dir on the CMS server. I then periodically have been running the Asset Manager maintenance, so that the old file names are removed, and the thumbnails get regenerated. I would have preferred that the users just renamed the files and then updated the pages using the images by just browsing to the renamed files - but they felt this was to tedious and slow. As a result, we have run into a few glitches. Fortunately we have backups! This has definitely not been a very fast or smooth process, the ability to rename directly in Asset Manager would have been substantially more convenient - particularly if the changes would then automatically update all pages that referenced those assets. We are using folders for all assets except for images that are used in our foundation content classes - those ones are stored in the database. CraigNY wrote: > I have become inured to the bizarre nature of Asset manager but here > is a new one. > Because we are going to a flat folder structure with no sub-folders, > we've instituted a naming convention. Users want to re-name their > assets. > It appears that there is no way to re-name a file in Asset manager. > That can't be right!?!? > > Would users have to delete files, re-upload files with t he new name > and then redo all the links to those media elements? > > Please, oh, please Reddot experts. Tell me that I just am not seeing > something so obvious in Asset manager. Please tell me to RTFM! > (preferably what page in the FM) > > Thanks > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
