diff --git a/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolver.java b/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolver.java
index 2b414493..51235a5e 100644
--- a/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolver.java
+++ b/spring-restdocs-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolver.java
@@ -82,11 +82,12 @@ public final class StandardWriterResolver implements WriterResolver {
 	@Override
 	public Writer resolve(String operationName, String snippetName,
 			RestDocumentationContext context) throws IOException {
-		File outputFile = resolveFile(
-				this.propertyPlaceholderHelper.replacePlaceholders(operationName,
-						this.placeholderResolverFactory.create(context)),
-				snippetName + "." + this.templateFormat.getFileExtension(), context);
-
+		PlaceholderResolver placeholderResolver = this.placeholderResolverFactory
+				.create(context);
+		String outputDirectory = replacePlaceholders(placeholderResolver, operationName);
+		String fileName = replacePlaceholders(placeholderResolver, snippetName) + "."
+				+ this.templateFormat.getFileExtension();
+		File outputFile = resolveFile(outputDirectory, fileName, context);
 		if (outputFile != null) {
 			createDirectoriesIfNecessary(outputFile);
 			return new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(outputFile),
@@ -103,6 +104,10 @@ public final class StandardWriterResolver implements WriterResolver {
 		this.encoding = encoding;
 	}
 
+	private String replacePlaceholders(PlaceholderResolver resolver, String input) {
+		return this.propertyPlaceholderHelper.replacePlaceholders(input, resolver);
+	}
+
 	File resolveFile(String outputDirectory, String fileName,
 			RestDocumentationContext context) {
 		File outputFile = new File(outputDirectory, fileName);
diff --git a/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolverTests.java b/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolverTests.java
index a4d3460d..9dc871a1 100644
--- a/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolverTests.java
+++ b/spring-restdocs-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/restdocs/snippet/StandardWriterResolverTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2014-2016 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2014-2017 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,14 +17,23 @@
 package org.springframework.restdocs.snippet;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Writer;
 
+import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;
 
 import org.springframework.restdocs.ManualRestDocumentation;
 import org.springframework.restdocs.RestDocumentationContext;
+import org.springframework.util.FileCopyUtils;
+import org.springframework.util.PropertyPlaceholderHelper.PlaceholderResolver;
 
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
+import static org.mockito.BDDMockito.given;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
 import static org.springframework.restdocs.templates.TemplateFormats.asciidoctor;
 
@@ -35,6 +44,9 @@ import static org.springframework.restdocs.templates.TemplateFormats.asciidoctor
  */
 public class StandardWriterResolverTests {
 
+	@Rule
+	public final TemporaryFolder temp = new TemporaryFolder();
+
 	private final PlaceholderResolverFactory placeholderResolverFactory = mock(
 			PlaceholderResolverFactory.class);
 
@@ -69,6 +81,30 @@ public class StandardWriterResolverTests {
 				is(new File(absolutePath, "baz.txt")));
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void placeholdersAreResolvedInOperationName() throws IOException {
+		File outputDirectory = this.temp.newFolder();
+		RestDocumentationContext context = createContext(
+				outputDirectory.getAbsolutePath());
+		PlaceholderResolver resolver = mock(PlaceholderResolver.class);
+		given(resolver.resolvePlaceholder("a")).willReturn("alpha");
+		given(this.placeholderResolverFactory.create(context)).willReturn(resolver);
+		Writer writer = this.resolver.resolve("{a}", "bravo", context);
+		assertSnippetLocation(writer, new File(outputDirectory, "alpha/bravo.adoc"));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void placeholdersAreResolvedInSnippetName() throws IOException {
+		File outputDirectory = this.temp.newFolder();
+		RestDocumentationContext context = createContext(
+				outputDirectory.getAbsolutePath());
+		PlaceholderResolver resolver = mock(PlaceholderResolver.class);
+		given(resolver.resolvePlaceholder("b")).willReturn("bravo");
+		given(this.placeholderResolverFactory.create(context)).willReturn(resolver);
+		Writer writer = this.resolver.resolve("alpha", "{b}", context);
+		assertSnippetLocation(writer, new File(outputDirectory, "alpha/bravo.adoc"));
+	}
+
 	private RestDocumentationContext createContext(String outputDir) {
 		ManualRestDocumentation manualRestDocumentation = new ManualRestDocumentation(
 				outputDir);
@@ -77,4 +113,13 @@ public class StandardWriterResolverTests {
 		return context;
 	}
 
+	private void assertSnippetLocation(Writer writer, File expectedLocation)
+			throws IOException {
+		writer.write("test");
+		writer.flush();
+		assertThat(expectedLocation.exists(), is(true));
+		assertThat(FileCopyUtils.copyToString(new FileReader(expectedLocation)),
+				is(equalTo("test")));
+	}
+
 }