oh since I've been asked a couple of times privately since that last comment: Mostly the rough edge in Sergey's rename script is UI stuff, especially the fixed dialogue size, which I believe is kind of down to the UI stuff Adobe makes available to scripts being pretty rough. In terms of functionality it’s done what I’ve needed quite handily; cloning it in Illustrator, except with a resizable window, would be a *heck* of a good start.

ALSO:

Note that his script renames not just artboards, but also layers and selected items. It would be delightful if the native "rename" functionality this feature request involves building was available for all of those places, as well as everywhere there's a list of things - ideally every single palette that has a list in it should have a 'rename' button in its bottom edge, or maybe a 'rename' item in its menu! If you implement this for just *one* kind of entity that we have a collection of, we *will* start asking for it everywhere else. I wouldn't be surprised if there's *already* separate requests out there for renaming swatches, styles, layers, brushes, etc.

Sergey's script is a decent workaround but it has some rough edges. Get this into a requestor summoned by the Layers palette's menu.

I would really like there to be an option to name a series of artboards at once instead of naming them one by one manually. It could be included in the artboard organization window, where you can choose a suffix and initial serial number to rename.

Yes please. While you are add it, please add a tool to bulk rename, search and replace layers AND artboards. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Egor! This plugin literally just doubled (if not tripled) my productivity!

Brandon, so far I can advise to use this free script from Sergey Osokin to do that: https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/md/Artboard.md#batchrenamer

Please comment back if it works for you.

Hi Illustrator Dev Team,

I would like to request a feature for a future update to the software. Please add in the ability to Find & Replace names of artboard. I need to do this about 100-200 times a day (or more) for my job and it is PAINFUL to have to rename them manually. I can't imaging it's THAT hard to pull off, but I may be wrong. It is something I've felt has been grossly overlooked in years since the artboard feature was introduced. Thanks in advance!

Brandon DeStefano, Designer

I would like to be able to
1) select any combination of artboards
2) Bulk renaming them in the same manner as in OSX, with options of string replacement, adding before and/or after existing name etc

This would save me a lot of time by not having to do it manually

Hi Sergey,

Wondering if possible to have a script for "Insert" on this script artboard rename https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/jsx/BatchRenamer.jsx? An option to insert a word, xxxxx-insert-xxxx-01?

Something like attached. Thanks

For batch renaming of artboards, layers and objects I made a free script:
https://github.com/creold/illustrator-scripts/blob/master/jsx/BatchRenamer.jsx

+1 to this please, it should be easy to implement and super standarized tool in 2021

Great idea, even if the developers end up not implementing a full-fledged function as described in https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/31629217-for-complex-artboard-setups-artboard-groups-fold , at least having the ability to import a csv file with all the artboard numbers and names (maybe sizes and etc?) would be great. That way, you would be able to process the csv file in Excel or other word processing app, then import the result, greatly facilitating the management of artboards. Currently I work with many languages, brands and platforms, my Illustrator files for generating branding imagery for social media have an average of 30 artboards, some go up to 90 or more. Renaming all those artboards by hand is a big pain in the back. Dear devs, please, please come up with something to address this?

PS: Yes, scripting can get us halfway there, but scripting is a too complicated skill to learn just to rename artboards....

For sure, as Illustrator now can handle lots of artboards in it, it's good to have some managing assets and tools to make it more comfort to work with them and managing them.

This is an important Need of every asset designer, font designer and lot of us out here.

hope it will soon.

I use external scipt (linked), Please embed similar tool :)
And add more functions:
- offset numbering (start number)
- Scale factor in the artboard name (1:1, 1:10, 1:25 etc.)
This script use 1:10 size

and other useful batch renaming function...