Is there any way to add file name as suffix / prefix to the path for a slice?

[christerdk]

Doesn't seem like, but I wanted to ask here to make sure. File name in path would be convenient. 

 

 

[GarryP]

I could be thinking about this wrong but wouldn’t that create some kind of recursion?

The file name is made from the things that are specified by the path components (with the file type suffix) so, if the file name was also included in the file name wouldn’t that cause the file name to simply keep growing until it reached the maximum length limit for the OS?

Or are you asking for something else? Or am I just wrong?

Note: There are user variables which can be used as path components; would that be what you want?

[lepr]

27 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Or are you asking for something else?

Seems likely the OP meant the document name, not the name of the exported file.

[GarryP]

Ah, that would make more sense to me.
That’s already been requested a few times, for example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/73646-export-slice-path-variable-document-name/

[christerdk]

Correct!

Apologies if I'm not using the correct terminology yet, I'm still relatively new to Affinity Photo.

I'm trying to make a reusable template in which I can place a photo into an embedded document. After doing so, I want to save the document with a name and then export the slices. Here it would be very convenient if I could include the document name in the slice file name, a la DocumentName-Slice1.jpg

But I understand now that it's not a possibility at the moment. 

[v_kyr]

4 minutes ago, christerdk said:

Here it would be very convenient if I could include the document name in the slice file name, a la DocumentName-Slice1.jpg

Well if it's always a new so far not otherwise saved doc, it doesn't make much sense to me if that would then be saved as "Untitled-Slice1.jpg" here, so I think it's overall no big deal to add & customize instead an own wanted export name for that (as it is actually).