File Naming Conventions

In Cascade, every File Name becomes a URL (web address), so for SEO purposes, file names have a few restrictions.

• No capital letters
• Hyphens (and ONLY hyphens, no underscores) instead of spaces
• No special characters (this includes apostrophes, ampersands, accent marks, etc.)
• No punctuation, except for a period in a file suffix (e.g. .txt. .jpg, .png, .docx, etc.). This will only be found in document and image assets.

By default, when creating a new asset (which includes uploading a document or image into Cascade), the File Name field will have a default value that follows these conventions. Examples include the following:

• new-folder
• new-page
• new-document
• new-image

File Naming Examples

The following are several examples of different file names in Cascade.

Document File Name

Image File Name

Page File Name