When an image is acquired, your software allocates it a default name. For instance, the first image that your software acquires will be named, "Image_01", by default. You can change these names in the Document Name dialog box.
Opening the dialog box
You have several options to open the dialog box where you can define default names.
1.For example, click Acquisition Settings 
button, located on the Camera Control toolbar.
2.Select the Document Name entry in the tree structure.
Different standard names for different acquisition processes
You can define different document names for the different acquisition processes. In the tree structure beneath the Document Name entry, select the acquisition process for which you want to change the settings.
•Select the Snapshot entry, to specify the image name for the snapshot acquisition.
•Select the Movie entry, to specify the document name for a recorded movie. You can find step-by-step instructions on how to acquire a movie here.
Description of the function groups
See also
Overview - Acquisition Settings
Customizing automatically created names
Overview - Placeholders in image and document names
Preview
The Preview field shows the name of the next image that you acquire. This preview will be updated as soon as you change the image's name.
Adjust
An automatically created name is made up of different parts. In the Customize group, you define a prefix and specify the numbering system.
Defining a prefix
Enter the first part of the image's name in the Text field.
To acquire a still image and to record a film, the predefined prefixes are Image and Movie. By default, the images acquired are called Image01, Image02 etc.
If possible don't use any special characters for the image name. Certain special characters, e.g. ? will already not be accepted when you enter them. If the image contains special characters in its name, it may, in certain cases, be impossible to automatically save it.
Shifting the prefix
You can also move the prefix which you defined in the Text field to any other position in the name of the image.
1.To do this, click the All Options... button.
2.A dialog box will open in which you can assemble an automatically created name from various placeholders.
3.You will find the prefix defined in the Text field in the top position of the Selection column.
2.Select the prefix and use the Up and Down buttons.
Defining counters
Define in the Counter digits field how many digits the numbering should consist of, e.g., 3 for the number 001. Please note that the value entered in the Counter digits field will not place an upwards limit on the numbering. This means that, for example, when you have entered a value of 2, and the last image you acquired was the image Image_99, the next image will receive the name Image_100.
If you want to start the numbering from a certain value, change the value in the Counter start field. There, you can, for example, return the numbering to 1 if you have acquired a great many images. Or you can continue the numbering of a series of images from the previous day. If you change the value in the Counter start field then the next image will always start with the set numbering. All additional images will be counted up by the value 1.
Each time your software restarts, the numbering of the images will restart with the value set in the Counter start field.
You can only change the value in the Counter start field, if you have cleared the Reset automatically check box.
Note: The value in the Counter start field may be ignored if automatic saving is active. In this case, your software checks whether a file with the name wanted already exists in the current directory. Should this file exist, the next higher available number will automatically be used.
To switch the automatic storage process on or off, use the Acquisition Settings > Saving dialog box. A detailed description of this dialog box can be found here.
Automatically resetting the counter
Select the Reset automatically check box when you want to be sure that images that belong together will be consecutively, serially numbered without any breaks. You can then no longer change the numbering of the images manually. A detailed explanation of this function can be found here.
Customizing document names
Your software supplies you with a number of placeholders that you can use in image names. Click the All Options... button to choose the placeholders that you want.
A description of this dialog box can be found here.
You can find a list of available place holders here.
Default / Apply to All
You can restore the default settings at any time. To do this, click the Default button.
Click the Apply to All button to have the settings of the current acquisition process adopted by all of the other acquisition processes.
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