Token reference

Set by the Group action in the selection toolbar (see Manual groups) or by mapping a group column in CSV Import. Rows with no group assignment render {group} as empty; if the active format references {group}, those rows are skipped on export.

Only - and _ are honoured. Stored group names with whitespace already collapse to - at write time, so this option re-shapes the existing internal hyphens without touching the source value.

SKU is a metadata key like any other; {sku} and {val:sku} resolve to the same value. The dedicated {sku} token exists because SKU has slightly different sanitization rules at write time (see Groups & metadata). Rows with no SKU render {sku} as empty; if the active format references {sku}, those rows are skipped on export.

keep preserves whatever mixed case the user typed (rare — the workspace lowercases SKUs at write time by default).

Only - and _ are honoured. Other separators are rejected at parse time with a warning; use a literal chip in the Format Builder if you need something exotic.

If the descriptor is empty and the format string references this token, the filename short-circuits to empty (the image is not renamed on export). This is the default behaviour for every built-in starter template and every workspace format that includes {descriptor}.

For zero-padded output use {seq} instead — {position} intentionally does no padding because some platforms (Shopify, Etsy) expect unpadded position digits.

Any positive integer. A width smaller than the rendered number is ignored (the number is rendered at its natural width rather than truncated).

group restarts at 1 for each new group. batch continues across the whole export in the order the workspace renders rows.

Useful when delivering shoot #3 of a multi-day engagement and you want 100 to be the first file name.

• now — the current wall-clock at the moment the filename renders, in UTC. Same across every image in one render pass.
• mtime — the file's lastModified timestamp, read from the OS. Uses local timezone (the OS itself stores lastModified in the machine's local zone).
• exif — EXIF DateTimeOriginal; falls back to EXIF DateTime; falls back to mtime; falls back to empty with a warning. Uses local timezone because EXIF timestamps carry no timezone data.

iso is an alias for YYYY-MM-DD. yyyymmdd is the compact legacy form. Any custom string containing the placeholders YYYY, MM, or DD has them substituted; everything else passes through as a literal.

When the key is missing or empty, renders empty and emits a warning. Combine with default= to avoid warnings. Note that {val:sku} and {val:group} resolve identically to the dedicated {sku} and {group} tokens — the dedicated tokens exist for clarity and slightly different sanitization at write time.

Fallbacks are also passed through case and sep normalization so the rendered filename stays consistent regardless of which branch fired.

Always rendered last in every built-in starter template. Renamerly never changes extensions on export — a JPEG stays a JPEG, a RAW stays a RAW.

Reads from the browser's webkitRelativePath property. Resolves to empty for flat file-picker selections (no folder hierarchy). Out-of-range depths render empty with a warning.

Falls through to empty if EXIF is absent (PNG, screenshots, HEIC without metadata).