https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification Gravity Support Forums Topic: Extract File Upload Name in Email Notification en-US Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:05:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification#post-69993 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:53:45 +0000 Chris Hajer 69993@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>It's a good idea. It may be built in already, but I could not find it easily, so I worked around it. I'll tag this as a feature request and bring it to the attention of the developers. Maybe I made hard work of something which was actually very easy. Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification#post-69938 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:33:57 +0000 joeykirk 69938@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>excellent. That worked great. Wouldnt it be better in a future release of the plugin to have this functionality built in? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification#post-69404 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:09:22 +0000 Chris Hajer 69404@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I was not able to figure out in the plugin code if it's possible to use just the sanitized filename or not. I worked around the problem by creating a shortcode you can use in your notification area. <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Where_Do_I_Put_This_Code%3F" rel="nofollow">Add this code</a> to your theme's functions.php.</p> <pre><code>[php] add_shortcode (&#39;gf_filename&#39;, &#39;uploaded_file_basename&#39;); function uploaded_file_basename( $atts, $content = null ) { $filename = basename($content); return $filename; }</code></pre> <p>Use the shortcode in your notification like this:</p> <pre><code>[gf_filename]{MERGE TAG}[/gf_filename]</code></pre> <p>Wrap the merge tag from the drop down in the shortcode [gf_filename]. That will output the plain text filename as it was being used in the {all_fields} notification.</p> <p>If you want to link the file to the name, exactly as it is when used in the {all_fields} notification, you can do this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;a href=&quot;{MERGE TAG}&quot; title=&quot;click to view&quot;&gt;[gf_filename]{MERGE TAG}[/gf_filename]&lt;/a&gt;</code></pre> <p>Be sure to use the drop down for your actual merge tag, to replace {MERGE TAG} in this example. Please let me know if you have any questions about that.</p> <p>For reference, I put the code online here as well:<br /> <a href="http://pastebin.com/Ta4WeEwv" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/Ta4WeEwv</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification#post-69399 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:56:07 +0000 Chris Hajer 69399@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thank you for bumping the topic. Sometimes the topics fall off our radar. It was unintentional. My apologies. I will take a look through the code and see what provides this functionality so we can use it in your notification. I will post back in a bit. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification#post-69384 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:39:47 +0000 joeykirk 69384@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Still waiting to hear a response. It has been over a week. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification#post-67963 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:35:35 +0000 joeykirk 67963@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I am trying to obtain the file name of my file upload in my gravity form notification email section. If I use the {all_fields} tag the email I get for the file upload shows the file name as the text of the link. However when I just want a specific file upload tag like {Attach file 1: 6}, the email I get shows the full url as the text of the link. Is there a way to format the tag so I only get the file name as the text of the link?<br /> Any help would be greatly appreciated. </p>