indico/indico

Ensure unique attachment title within folders

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#2,703 opened on Nov 10, 2016

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Description

Related SNOW ticket CHG34472.

Some users tend to upload new files instead of updating already uploaded ones. In many cases, this causes having two attachments with the same title and having no way to tell which one is the newer one (at least from display view).

While we should probably make more obvious that files can be replaced in the material editor, an easy improvement could be ensuring uniqueness in attachment titles. Maybe by appending (1), (2), ... if there's already one with the same name.

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Inspect the attachment model and folder logic in Indico to ensure titles are unique within a folder by appending a suffix like (1), (2) when duplicates are detected.
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python
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backend
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