@Mike Choo, I don’t expect much form this dialog anymore.
The team obviously don’t have enough of real cases and users don’t really share examples of the names they need to get, offering solutions and to-do lists instead. That’s how out minds work :)

But perhaps this script can serve you better?
https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Artboard.md#batchrenamer
It’s versatile enough and offers many placeholders, supports Regex.
The author responds to feedback and can include things you might need.

Hi. This is critical for my work in Illustrator, which often involves storyboards.

These can often need to be moved around, re-ordered, new artboards adding in. Having a strong naming convention is vital for when they are taken in to edit to lay out animatics.

Currently the only way I can find to export with incrementing numbers at the end is to manually name the artboards each time before export, which gets very time-consuming when there are a lot, or if client amends are frequent.

My ideal upgrades for the Export for Screens panel are as follows:

- Option to prefix with the file name, as per InDesign PDF export. This would be a checkbox. This would save a lot of time and ensure consistency in file names.

- Option to include/exclude artboard names - this would also be a checkbox. This would be useful in conjunction with the numbering options mentioned below, as it would negate the need to name artboards if numbers are all that's needed, saving a lot of time.

- Use of tokens similar to the current implementation (e.g. #AN, #IN), but change so that the export does not automatically append another number at the end of the filename, as this can override the file sorting in some circumstances.

- Option to use those tokens as suffixes, to come at the end of the exported filenames.

- The option to add leading zeros - this is vital if you have more than 9 files. I'd suggest either a checkbox to add leading zeros and the program figures out how many it will need, or that users can manually choose how many digits they need. This is also vital if exporting for animation.

- A wider Prefix text box! There is free space to the side, and in lieu of being able to use filename as prefix, this would be very helpful on a daily basis. It's currently too small to be of use for most naming conventions I know of.

Pleas ask if there is any clarification needed, this is a massive productivity issue and hopefully it can be improved going forwards.

Many thanks!

Hi, the beta implementation is a good step forward, thank you.

As improvements I'd strongly suggest either adding the ability to choose the number of digits in the number prefix, or have it default to the largest number of digits.

Currently it will export 1, 2, 3, and then on to 10, 11, 12 etc. It would be much better for sorting files if the option was there to export 01, 02, 03, so the files sorted in the correct order when pulled into other applications.

My primary suggestion would be to get whoever many artboards are being exported, and have all the exported boards have that number of digits - if there were hundreds of artboards then it would notice that and the first exported board would be 001 and so on.

It would also be really useful to have a checkbox to include/ignore the artboard names - as they cannot be blank they currently need to have something - in the example image attached they have all been set to 'A' as a single non-space character.

One issue I've seen while testing is that numbered artboard exports (#AN) seem to be having the number below them appended on the end of the filename. For example, 'prefix #AN' would produce files named:
prefix -1.png
prefix -2_1.png
prefix -3_2.png
and so on. I cannot figure out what is causing this - any help gladly appreciated!

Also please expand the width of the prefix text box - our naming conventions often need longer prefixes and the text box is narrow.

Many thanks

As a product designer, I sometimes have a need to export very similar designs (but not exactly the same) and it would be good if I could have the ability to say "Name all the files the same but add a number on the end". So for example, if I'm designing a deck of cards. Sometimes I don't need to name all the cards, I need to add an incremental number to the end. Artboard name. - "Card" then add #1, #2, #3 to the end without going into each artboard and renaming them.

Or to simply add the artboard number. Card + Artboard Number

+1 for Helen M's description - being able to prefix with the artboard number while reordering artboards would be a big time saver.

My primary use case is storyboards, which can change in order quite a bit as a result of feedback, and having to go through 50+ artboards and manually re-number them each time is painful.

I like the approach Sergey Osokin uses in his BatchRenamer script:
https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Artboard.md#batchrenamer
(watch the video)
It allows to use a variety of placeholders in both prefix and suffix fields.
It does not have an ability to use the actual artboard numbers, but since they are always consecutive anyways (except for the dreaded bug with extra/missing numbers! https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/39220252-artboards-with-the-same-number) — one can choose an ascending or a descending order to number them.
As I see it, it covers all cases I might need for exporting assets/artboards.
Perhaps using coded placeholders might seem a bit technically, and one can prefer having dropdowns instead, — it’s OK. But since placeholders are common within a variety of renamer tools we have to use to workaround this problem, I assume it’s a level we can handle.
I’d like to know what others think of it.
Dropdowns or annotated placeholders?

I echo Helen M’s comment.

The request is a prefix option like one of the following:
- A simple checkbox to add artboard number as prefix
- Or support some sort of regular expression for the prefix text field that would dynamically be replaced by the artboard number.

Having the artboard names on export is great, but what would be even more useful is if the artboard number (see 'image_01.jpg') can be automatically added as a prefix on export.

Therefore after export, from this example image, the exported artboard name would include '01_' before the artboard name. E.g '01_D_No-account_not-logged-in'.

Advantages to this mean that if you have exported 30 artboards, all with unique artboard names they go in the order of artboard number, rather than alphabetically based on the artboard name itself.

So for example, when I look in the folder where I have exported them to, they are in the order I intended when ordering the artboards by number, in Illustrator. Not all jumbled because of the first character in alphabetical naming protocol.

Currently when I have exported a batch of artboards, I would have to go through each exported file and rename with the 'artboard number' at the beginning so that they are list in the correct order. This means when I present the images to someone, they are in the order I want them to be.

You could argue that I number them at the time of naming the artboard, however the order of these gets rearranged frequently, and after a review, there may be more artboards added, so it is inconvenient to have to go through all the artboards proceeding the one I have renamed and change the numbers when the numbering is already there as the artboard number.

Please add this. Would be super helpful.

Something like this and Just AUTOMATE Adobe.png

This would be such a nice feature to have. Having to manually enter the number is really frustrating on files with many artboards,. Especially when something new comes along that needs to be inserted in the middle causing you to have to rename each artboard.

Found this post by Googling for exactly this functionality! Sometimes I want the number, other times I don't. Including in the export would be really nice, especially for larger projects.

Great take on the artboard naming!
I'd just like a general set of abilities, like the ability to reset artboard names back to their order number, or auto add artboard name suffix/prefixes, etc. Just some general options for auto artboard naming would be so time saving for storyboarding.

Would love this as well!

+1 Would love to see the option where artboard number can be used as prefix.

Big plus one on this idea - I end up manually entering artboard numbers and if they need to change it's very time consuming to update

Would love to see the option where artboard number can be used as prefix.