Forms: How to select a file?

[Das Goravani]

Dear Paul,

When you decide to drop in and answer on the list you are so very helpful. You get right to the thing. 

Thanks so much,

Das

> On Apr 25, 2022, at 2:38 AM, Paul Mulroney via omnisdev-en <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Das,
> 
>> On 24 Apr 2022, at 1:51 am, Das Goravani <goravanis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> BUT I wish there was a File Picker dialog that I could pop up over the form (good only on desktop/laptop computers).  I haven’t found that yet in the docs for remote forms. I’m glad I found out how to do drag and drop of file system files. 
>> 
> 
> There is such a thing - it's the File Control object in the remote form.  You can trigger an upload by putting code that looks like this in a button:
> 
> Calculate irFileData as row(ilMIMEHeaders,'tvFileData')
> Calculate $cinst.$objs.FileControl.$action as kJSFileActionUpload               ## this triggers the file upload
> 
> Look for the File Control object in the online docco - https://www.omnis.net/developers/resources/onlinedocs/WebDev/03jscomps.html#uploading-files <https://www.omnis.net/developers/resources/onlinedocs/WebDev/03jscomps.html#uploading-files>
> 
> Regards,
> Paul.
> 
> 
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