DataMystic

Tried to start my filename by date in this format: 2015.03.15 (instead of 20150315 allowed by @date variable).
Yet all of my attempts have failed.

Will be grateful for any help.

How did you try and do this? Not sure if you can, but can you use a subfilter of the split filename filter to split the numbers out into 3 variables e.g.
(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})

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It seems I cannot as there are no numbers to split. To make this format - 2015.03.18 - I've got to somehow process the result given by @date. Yet I've found in this forum that the name of the final output is defined at the very start of the job.
As far as I can see, at present the only way to achieve my goal is to make TP launch itself two times in a row as a third-party program.

So I've got the following suggestion:
It seems natural to replace the in-built macroes @date and @time by their constituent parts
@year @month @date @hour @minute @second.
With this approach handling date becomes far more flexible.

Agreed. I just don't want it to conflict with existing definitions that people might have for those common names.

How about
@_year @_month @_date @_hour @_minute @_second

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that'll be even better. thank you