Automatically add or add file names uploaded with a date or random number in SharePoint

Question

I somehow turned into a person to oversee my SharePoint organization, and I was tasked with finding a way that when a file is uploaded to any of our document libraries, the file name of the specified file is either added, added with a date or a random string to prevent name collisions.

I understand that SharePoint will block the download of files with the same name, but I would just like to approximate or add a date or line to the file name to just get around the whole problem. Our users are not the most technical specialists, therefore, to automatically rename their files for them, they will help us and both of them.

Is there any way to do this currently in the SharePoint settings? I looked at the versions and document id, but still haven't prevented naming. Is there any plugin I could use? or do I need to have code written by someone and add it to SharePoint?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The Content Organizer feature in SharePoint 2010 lets you set a duplicate submit tag in documents.

" Duplicate content This option specifies whether to use SharePoint versioning or add unique characters to the end of duplicate file names if the document is loaded with the same name as the document that is already in the destination library."

Play around with this to see if it helps before worrying about a more complex coded solution. Your users can also evaluate the approach to uploading a document.