Folder action - rename & colorize new files

Hello,
to help myself handling / managing my incoming aka download folder i am trying / willing to write a script which does some automated tasks for me.
a) unquarantine (solved)
b) rename - add date/time(yyyymmdd) in front of the filename (open)
c) label them with colors (open)
*General question:*
Well right now i am wondering about some general points first:
Is it better to split that into 3 sep. folder actions scripts which would be attached to the same folder ... .no idea if that may result in problems regarding which script goes first.... or should i add it to a single script ?
*Regarding a)*
i found this post here:
http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/10/lift-the-leopard-download-quarantine
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
repeat with anItem in addedItems
set anItem's contents to (quoted form of POSIX path of (anItem as alias))
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
do shell script "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine " & (addedItems as text)
end adding folder items to
which explains an unquarantine routine ... works pretty good. I have just added a growl routine at the end for my personal use
*Regarding b)*
I'm not really sure how to handle the date_idea in applescript. I know i could use "do shell script" and save the output of date to a variable but i hope there are better methods to get the name in my desired format (yyyymmdd)
And how would you realize the rename-action itself in applscript ?
*Regarding c)*
I guess "set label index of myFile to 1" is the correct comd here for Finder. Or would you suggest any other method ?
any help is appreciated
best regards
fidel

Is it better to split that into 3 sep. folder actions scripts which would be attached to the same folder ... .no idea if that may result in problems regarding which script goes first.... or should i add it to a single script ?
A single script, for sure.
If you have three separate scripts you will encounter a race condition were all three scripts are trying to run at once. This is asking for trouble, especially when one of the scripts renames the file making it impossible for the others to find it (e.g. they start off looking for 'download.doc' but by the time they do their thing that file has been renamed and no longer exists).
i found this post here:
(snip)
That code, as written is fatally flawed. I can't believe it works.
First of all it starts off by looping through the addedItems, which is fair enough, but it doesn't do anything worthwhile within the loop - It just converts anItem to a POSIX path, but doesn't do anything with the result. It goes on to set the text item delimiters, but doesn't restore them later.
Finally it calls do shell script, but not in a way that will work. You cannot pass addedItems as-is because it is not in a format that will work in the shell.
I'm not really sure how to handle the date_idea in applescript. I know i could use "do shell script" and save the output of date to a variable but i hope there are better methods to get the name in my desired format (yyyymmdd)
Ironically I would go for a shell-based approach to get the date, mainly because simple date formatting like this is far easier in the shell than in AppleScript (it can be done in AS, but takes multiple lines of code).
I guess "set label index of myFile to 1" is the correct comd here for Finder. Or would you suggest any other method ?
set label index is the way to go, for sure.
So putting the above together you'll end up with something like:
on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
  set theDate to do shell script "date +%Y%m%d"
  repeat with anItem in addedItems
    do shell script "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine " & (quoted form of POSIX path of (anItem as alias))
    tell application "Finder"
      set label index of anItem to 1
      set name of anItem to (theDate & (name of anItem as text))
    end tell
  end repeat
end adding folder items to

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