File sync. Append Device Name

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Raymond Turrrell
Bournville Village Trust

Hi all

I've set up a photo sync for our devices which works well but ideally I'd like to prepend the file name with the device name to help identify the photos. I've tried doing this as follows...

but the filename just looks like this when it syncs. 

%PERSONALIZED_DEVICE_NAME%IMG_20210824_144205_1.jpg

I've also tried %DeviceID% %DEVICENAME% and 

%ENROLLEDUSER_USERNAME% but nothing seems to work. I'd appreciate any advice you could offer.
4 years ago
Android
ANSWERS
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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
4 years ago (edited 4 years ago)

As far as I know, the use of most default macros in file-sync rule file-naming  are not supported yet.  You can file feature request to Soti.  Until such support is added,  the current workaround is to enable the file-sync rule option of using device-ID/phone-ID etc. as sub-folder to handle your file-name crahes problem for files from different devices.  On your Windows Server hosting MobiControl, there are plenty choices of program/scripts that can be used to subsequently rename or move the synced files to a single directory for subsequent post-processing.

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Raymond Turrrell
4 years ago

Thanks Raymond. Appreciate your help