Automatically adding data (revision number) in the file name

[desislavahr]

Hello,

First time here and will be thankful if someone can support with the below and share experience. Any crazy ideas are welcome!

The background: in our team we're processing a lot of artworks in Illustrator and send them to the client for approval. Each AW draft contains a job box where we add the revision number. We keep only one master file (compliance reasons).

The problem: some of the clients want to have the revision number and date not only in the job box but also in the file name.

The question: after reading a lot here I understood that using a script can add the today's date in the file name but not other type of data. Could you please let me know if we can achieve the following: to have an automized way of pulling data from the file itself (the artboard / the job box) and adding it to the file name when we save it? I know that I’m looking for a unicorn but decided it to give it a try.

Thanks a lot,
Dess

[Kurt Gold]

It would be useful if you can share a sample Illustrator file with detailed instructions.

[desislavahr]

Thank you! A sample file is attached now. The idea is when we change the artwork / do some amends to it, to up version also the file name automatically. We change the draft number in the job box (for example for 01 to 04) in the file itself but would like to change automatically also the file name. For example: file name "123456_a1 - project name ABCDEFGH_01.pdf" to be changed to "123456_a1 - project name ABCDEFGH_04.pdf" when the table in the file (field Ver. No) is changed from 01 to 04. Hope it makes sense 🙂