What is a clean way to add timestamps and _quarto.yml information in a filename?

[liyongg]

In my Quarto book project, I am trying to add a timestamp and additional information to the filename of the rendered output based on the project _quarto.yml. However, from #606 I assumed that it would not be possible in the output-file tag under book.

Now I have written a script and tagged it in post-render under project. Is this the correct way (as of now) for what I am trying to achieve?

[mcanouil]

Simply use date and the formatting feature of Quarto, see https://quarto.org/docs/reference/dates.html.

[cderv]

Will this really allow to write date information to output filename ? It is dedicated to tweak the date information for output document content, isn't it ?

it seems to me the post render rendered script is the way to go to had some information into the output filename of a rendering.

[mcanouil]

Oh, I misread "in filename" as "in file".

Indeed, the only way to add a timestamp and/or rename/move rendered files is using post-render script (https://quarto.org/docs/projects/scripts.html#pre-and-post-render).

[liyongg]

Thank you! Good to know that the post-render script was not a waste of time (;