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Cue-Sheet Renaming Guide

The Cue Sheet templates in PDF Manager help you instantly rename files to match specific industry conventions — without tedious manual edits.

Use this feature to ensure consistent formatting across all cue sheets before storing or sending them.
If your team follows a different convention that’s not listed, you can request it via TūlBOX support.

🎯 When to use each template​

There are two built-in templates:

TemplateUse when filenames…
Cue Sheet T1Include the episode title.
Cue Sheet T2Do not include the episode title.

📋 Applying a template​

For filenames with episode titles (T1)​

  1. Open Search & Replace.

  2. Click Show Templates.

  3. Select Cue Sheet T1.
    This automatically adds the specialized rule:

    .* → CUE_SHEET

  4. Review the preview table for changes.

  5. Manually adjust any rows if needed.

For filenames without episode titles (T2)​

  1. Open Search & Replace.

  2. Click Show Templates.

  3. Select Cue Sheet T2. This automatically adds the specialized rule:

    .* → CUE_SHEET_NO_EP

  4. Review the preview table for changes.

  5. Manually adjust any rows if needed.

Special TūlBOX Behavior

In TūlBOX, some words in the Replace box are not treated as plain text — they act as commands.

For example: .* → CUE_SHEET

  • .* = match any filename, no matter what it is.
  • CUE_SHEET = a special keyword that triggers TūlBOX’s dotify process.

When triggered, dotify will:

  1. Check and fix delimiters.
  2. Move leading articles (A, An, The) to the end.
  3. Truncate and add . . . if too long.
  4. Remove extra spaces and stray punctuation.
  5. Apply correct capitalization rules.

The result is a perfectly cue-sheet-compliant filename — not literally CUE_SHEET.pdf.

The same applies to:

  • CUE_SHEET_NO_EP → dotify without episode-title logic.

⚠ Expected delimiter format​

These templates rely on very specific spacing between sections of the filename. If delimiters don’t match exactly, the filename will remain unchanged and show a Status = Error.

T1:

  • Three parts: Production title, episode title, episode number
  • Delimiters:
    • Three spaces between production and episode title.
    • Two spaces between episode title and episode number.

T2:

  • Two parts: Production title, episode number
  • Delimiters:
    • Three spaces between production title and episode number.

🔧 Behind-the-scenes adjustments​

Both templates (T1 & T2) also apply automatic formatting tweaks:

  1. Move leading articles The articles A, An, The are moved to the end of production and/or episode titles.

    Example:

    THE SHOW   The Episode  Ep No. 1234
    → SHOW, THE   Episode, The  Ep No. 1234

  2. Truncate long names Keeps the total filename length ≤ 60 characters. Long sections are shortened and suffixed with . . ..

    Example:

    THE VERY VERY VERY VERY LONG SHOW TITLE   The Long Episode Name  Ep No. 1234
    → VERY VERY VERY VERY LONG SHOW T. . .   Lon. . .  Ep No. 1234

  3. Consistent casing

    • Production title → ALL CAPS
    • Episode title → Title Case

  4. Whitespace cleanup

    • Extra spaces are removed.
    • Trailing , . ' ! ␣ characters are stripped if followed by . . ..

  5. File extension normalization The .pdf extension is always lowercase on download.

📌 Status indicator reminder​

The Status badge in the table reflects overall file validation, not just cue-sheet rule checks. For example, even if a cue-sheet rename succeeds, a file might still be flagged for length or duplication issues.

💡 Tips for best results​

  • Errors are your friend — incorrect delimiter spacing is easy to miss when scanning filenames - now you can catch them easily.
  • Run on a clean batch — avoid mixing files with and without episode titles in the same rename run.
  • Preview first — confirm formatting in the table before downloading.
  • Use manual edits for edge cases that don’t fit the template exactly.
  • Watch for duplicates - duplicates will not be downloaded since this would cause file loss; fix the duplicates first.