Name your documents

You can have DocuGen give a fixed name to your generated documents, or give them 'dynamic' names using placeholders.

Note the special considerations related to document names at the bottom of this article.

Go to your DocuGen view and click on the Settings tab:

Static Names

You can give all your documents the same name if you enter any string in the “Default Document Name” text box. For example, this setting: 

will name all your documents “My newly-created document”.

In addition, you should not use unsupported characters in the document name.

Dynamic Names

You can use placeholders to give your documents varying names. For example, this setting:

will give a result similar to this:

Other examples:

• <<user_name>>‘s document from <<board_name>>
  will give a result similar to this:
  John Doe’s document from Invoices
  (assuming the user name is "John Doe" and the board name is “Invoices”)
• Invoice for <<column_firstrow:Item>> dated <<column_firstrow:Invoice Date>>
  will give a result similar to this:
  Invoice for Dell Technologies dated 2020-11-20
  (assuming the name of the first row is “Dell Technologies” and there is a column “Invoice Date” on the board.)

Considerations related to document names:

1. Document name length: Document names are limited to 160 characters; otherwise, you may get a corrupted document. Make sure the default document name is shorter than 160 characters. If you're using placeholders in your default document name, make sure that the values inserted when generating the document do not cause the document name to exceed 160 characters.
2. Unsupported placeholders: Tabular placeholders (<<table>>, <<table_body>>, <<subitems>>, <<subitems_body>>, etc.) are not supported in dynamic document names.
3. Unsupported characters: Do not use the following unsupported characters in the document name. Also, if you are using placeholders in the default document name, make sure the placeholders do not result in such characters being inserted in the document name.