Iāve calculus-summary1-1.pdf asset, and I want save as name to be calculus-summary1-1.pdf instead of 1595023185-calculus-summary1-1.pdf, Iām not sure where 1595023185 is coming from may be itās the id of the asset.
Here is the full url,
https://www.datocms-assets.com/25569/1595023185-calculus-summary1-1.pdf
How to get only the asset name when save as clicked.
unfortunately @henok.tesfaye we prepend all the assets with a timestamp. We cannot remove that, sorry!
Unless you do something on top of us, no, sorry 
A suggestion / feature request regarding thisā¦
There are many scenarios where an application would like to construct a URL to an asset based on a known pattern, i.e. no CMS API request required to determine the assetās URL. If we have a list of 100 items on a page (that come from somewhere other than the CMS) and each needs an image, we donāt want to have to make a CMS API request for that specific 100 items to determine their URLs.
Iām not sure how many application features weāve developed where we rely on this, but itās at least double digits.
It would be ideal if we could specify the URL to the asset or, alternatively, specify a secondary valid external URL where we could follow our pattern.
Thank you.
Hello @donnie.hale and welcome to Community 
Would you be able to provide an example to help me understand better your use case?
Wouldnāt be possible for you to fetch all the assets that you have tagged somehow with one API call, for example?
The secondary URL could be managed with a model in the CMS where you have a string field which represents the slug and an asset field with the final asset. But this will require one API call to retrieve the asset URL. It can be done with a lambda function, and itās also the recommended way to have stable assets URL, if you need to change an asset and retain the same URL.
(Sorry for the delay in replyingā¦)
As I mentioned, weāve had this scenario come up multiple times in another application where weāre using a different CMS vendor which allows us to directly control the path and URL of assets. In other words, we donāt have to attach an asset to a content item and use a content request to retrieve the assetās URL.
Hereās the typical scenario: Thereās another system, e.g. a CRM or inventory system, whose content and structure we donāt control. So we canāt add asset URLs to the items in that system. Each item has a unique ID. Weāre developing an application which allows users to interact with those items: view, page, filter, etc. Say the users are viewing 50 items at a time out of 2,500 total items.
Because of the sorting, filtering, and paging capabilities, the set of unique item IDs displayed at any time are not contiguous nor are they predictable.
In the application weāre developing, we want to associate an asset with each item - an image, a pdf file, whatever.
If we can directly control the URL of these assets in the CMS, then we can know that each itemās asset URL is of the form: https://{tenant-domain-name/assets/crm-items/{unique-item-id}.png. Our application can simply construct URLs of that form just by knowing each item ID.
As things stand with DatoCMS now, weād first have to define a content model to represent each item. Then weād have to create 2,500 content items of that model. That in itself is a significant amount of overhead. But then, worse than that, at runtime of our application, weād have to construct a query thatās essentially: āWHERE unique-item-id IN (list,of,50,item,ids)ā, process each content item returned in the response to that query, and then pull the asset URL out of each.
Hopefully that makes sense. As I said, weāve followed the above pattern of āconstruct the asset URL b/c we know the convention of the asset URL formatā in several features of another application.
I really appreciate you asking me the follow-up question.
Donnie Hale
Thank you @donnie.hale I understand now.
Unfortunately since the filename cannot be set, you will always need to do at least one API call to get the upload objects, from which you can get the asset URL.
But, you can filter by filename and if you have simple letter-only string that you can use for your filename, that will be present in the final URL. So you can use that to find the asset and get the URL.
I know that you need one extra API call, but maybe if you have only 2500 items you could do it once at build time and store all the upload URLs so that then you have the mapping locally and you can skip the API call when you only need the URL?
What do you think?
Thanks again for the reply.
I understand that there are workarounds and optimizations that can be made in view of whatās currently possible.
You said, āsince the filename cannot be set.ā
The argument Iām making is that it would a valuable enhancement to DatoCMS to allow the filename/URL to be set to a known value at the time the asset is uploaded.
-Donnie
Yep, I see.
I think this is the closest feature request that we have at the moment: When replacing asset keep same url
If you want to upvote and add a comment there it will surely be helpful and give a bit more priority to that. I cannot promise anything, but weāll surely review it when evaluating new features to implement.
Thank you!