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title: "Mapp Intelligence: Optimized Export File Names (pre-announcement)"
slug: "mapp-intelligence-optimized-export-file-names-pre-announcement"
updated: 2024-04-04T08:25:51Z
published: 2024-04-04T08:25:51Z
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# Mapp Intelligence: Optimized Export File Names (pre-announcement)

**04 Nov 2020** Mapp Intelligence will optimize the file names of your exports next week, as of 12 November 2020. Instead of an internal ID, they now show the export title and a timestamp that shows when the file was generated. This way, you can easily identify the report or analysis you are looking for.

## Key Benefits

- Easily identify the report you are looking for by the export title.
- Find the latest version immediately by the date included in the file name.
- The date is the actual timestamp of the calculation. If you generate the file twice, but no data has changed, the file name will be identical.
- Illegal characters used in file names will be automatically replaced.

## Description

The new file name has the following format:

mapp-%export-title%-%FileCreationTime%_UTC.{csv|xls|pdf}

| Element | Description |
| --- | --- |
| export-title | The title of your report or analysis. > [!TIP] > Characters which are not allowed in file names are replaced by "-". |
| FileCreationTime | This is the timestamp of the calculation. It is in format **YYYY-mm-dd_HH-MM-SS** in UTC. |
| .csv, .xls, .pdf | Shows the format in which the file is generated. |

### Illegal characters

These characters are not allowed in file names.

| # pound | % percent | & ampersand |
| --- | --- | --- |
| { left curly bracket | } right curly bracket | \ back slash |
| < left angle bracket | > right angle bracket | * asterisk |
| ? question mark | / forward slash | blank spaces |
| $ dollar sign | ! exclamation point | ' single quotes |
| " double quotes | : colon | @ at sign |
| + plus sign | ` backtick | \| pipe |
| = equal sign |  |  |

## Example

| Old file name: | webtrekk-export-1562229760005_29469.pdf |
| --- | --- |
| New file name: | mapp-marketingreport-2020-11-04_10-10-30_UTC.pdf |

## Availability

This is a default feature in Mapp Intelligence.