The underscore is added to make sure any extra digits added by wordpress to avoid duplicate filenames are visible, and to avoid totally numeric filenames. I could look into making it optional, but absolutely do not have time at the moment.
There are so many legacy applications with complex file-naming rules like this, and entrywizard cannot support them all.
Do you have the membership number stored in your wordpress database at all? e.g by a membership plugin? If you do (and it has the right number of digits) it should be accessible as a custom field in entrywizard ( see the file ewz-extra.txt that comes with entrywizard ).
Othewise you would probably need to download the files and rename them. There are file renaming programs, or you could generate a spreadsheet with all the data needeed (from entrywizard plus your membership records), and from it generate a set of file renaming commands which you then run on a command line (DOS for windows or unix for mac).
Or there may possibly be a plugin that can rename files on the server.
Thanks for the quick reply. Making the underscore optional will be great. It gives user more flexibility depending on their scenarios. Looking forward to its implementation in the future.
I do use a membership plugin the addon of which allows custom fields. There is no documentation on how to retrieve custom field data. I have made an enquiry to see if they have function to do that. If there is such a function, I can follow your extra plugin instructions. Once it is installed, how do I actually incorporate it in the prefix for the filename. Say for example with membership_num, I already have a membership_num field in the layout, but it is not an option-list field so the number is not incorporated in the prefix as filename. Will the Extra plugin solve this?
Yeah, changing filename will be my last resort. Currently I already use a script to do just that locally. I am hoping to improve my workflow with image upload.
Yes, when you have set up the ewz_extra plugin, your custom fields will be accessible as ~CD1, ~CD2, etc in the prefix — see the popup help beside the prefix item in any webform
