Adding a small voice to the chorus here: As others have said, it feels really unprofessional to be sharing download links full of randomly generated text. This is just one of way too many problems with Webflow's CMS. I would never recommend Webflow to anyone else at this point.

It's been 7 years now and there is not even a tag on this topic yet? Even though this idea has even been merged 4 times already? Could you guys please look into that?

I've just downloaded hundreds of image files from my webflow site and they all have a 25-character numerical prefix added. If I make edits and re-upload them will webflow add another 25 characters? This seems really bad for SEO. Do we know what the barriers are to fixing this issue? It's bananas that there are threads going back years asking for WF to respond.

Last night I paid for a tool to help me remove all the prefixes and give them all nice SEO-friendly file names before it dawned on me that y'all are going to change the names as soon as I re-upload them.

THIS IS CRUCIAL

As others have pointed out, PDF files need to be hosted on different platforms (creating additional costs) to maintain clean asset links under the same familiar domain name. In addition, tracking data like file views is also challenging.

I hope this will change soon, ideally becoming a standard feature without extra fees.

Please fix this! It looks really unprofessional to have the random string in front of the file name, and it's kinda ridiculous to have this limitation on a paid hosting plan.

This is urgent, please solve this.

It's 2024, and this hasn't been actioned....🥲 Please implement this soon Webflow

Surely this has to be actioned by now Webflow... every other platform out there has no issues with retaining the file name for the download. This is one of the first things clients ask to be changed once their site is up... to which I have to advise it can't be...

This would be soo much simpler. Cleaning a website and having an optimized landing page is almost impossible because of that

Please implement this!

Clients use our site to discover new case studies and publications. We offer full versions via download links on cms pages, and I hate to think of the user experience for them finding these junk PDF filenames on their desktop. It looks unprofessional and they are less likely to re-share with their colleagues in that form.

Any updates on this?

This can be done with some custom code. Embed the following script after the "Download File" button element:
<script>

document.getElementById('downloadButton').addEventListener('click', function() {

var fileNameWithPrefix = this.getAttribute('data-file');

var fileName = fileNameWithPrefix.substring(fileNameWithPrefix.indexOf('_') + 1);

// Decode the filename to replace '%20' with actual spaces

fileName = decodeURIComponent(fileName);

// Create a temporary link element

var link = document.createElement('a');

link.href = 'path_to_download/' + fileName; // Replace 'path_to_download/' with your actual download path

link.setAttribute('download', fileName); // Set the download attribute to specify filename

link.style.display = 'none';

document.body.appendChild(link);

// Trigger the download

link.click();

// Cleanup: remove the temporary link element

document.body.removeChild(link);

});

</script>

And create a custom element set as a button:
<button id="downloadButton" data-file="{{wf {&quot;path&quot;:&quot;file-to-download&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;FileRef&quot;\} }}" class="button">Download File</button>
replacing {{wf {&quot;path&quot;:&quot;file-to-download&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;FileRef&quot;\} }} with the relevant field from your cms

I just wanted to emphasize how important this would be for Webflow users. We're looking forward to this update!

As an enterprise customer, it's disappointing to see this has been requested since 2017 and has not been addressed yet.

Please add this to your roadmap. File names should not be prepended with a random string of characters, and we should have the option to have files under our own custom domain name.

Need this one very badly. Cant be showing webflow or other domain other than our client domain.

We need exactly what Kevin has described below. Ay updates on when this will be in beta would be highly appreciated.

lo veo totalmente fundamental, esto me limita hacer mucho. Me parece muy poco profesional tener los archivos con ese dominio.

THIS IS CRITICAL

Businesses need this functionality to link directly to PDFs customers frequently access. We need the following features:

• Asset URLs need to be customizable and come from our custom domain rather than the CDN domain. This is necessary for SEO, and security concerns (Customers might question wether the asset really belongs to the business if the URLs don't match).

• Assets need the ability to be replaced whilst maintaining the same URL. Imagine posting the Asset link to external sources and then having to make a revision to the asset. Now you have to go and replace all the extrernal source links. (# of Assets × external sources × revisions and it starts getting ridiculous).

Hey! New update since my last post on 22nd May: We were so disappointed in my company about this issue so we decided to build this simple and free tool https://cleanassetlink.com to have this issue solved, it's live now and working so well!!