Make photoshop action that saves file with specific filename

Is there a way to make a photoshop action that does a SaveForWeb, but adds text to the original filename when saving?
For example, if I open a file called "coverPage," and I want the action to do SaveForWeb as a JPEG, can I have it save as "coverPageWEBVERSION"?
Thanks for your time and help

No this is one thing you will need scripting for.
They really should have introduced some modification to the Save dialog that allows file naming additions or modifications triggerable within actions. But they never did.
As a workaround, Bridge is a good tool for renaming, because naming convensions can be SAVED and quickly applied to groups of files. Not often known fact - On a mac there are also OS scripts that can do the same thing. There is a script called 'rename items' hidden away somewhere. This is accessable by Control or right clicking on a group of files, and going through the 'automate' submenu

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[svn:fx-trunk] 7661: Change from charset=iso-8859-1" to charset=utf-8" and save file with utf-8 encoding.

Revision: 7661
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-06-08 17:50:12 -0700 (Mon, 08 Jun 2009)
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Change from charset=iso-8859-1" to charset=utf-8" and save file with utf-8 encoding.
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