FileInput Upload Location

💬 App Building
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Is it possible to determine the folder location when using "Upload file to Retool Storage"

There are a couple of things that I want to accomplish:

  1. My "OCD" is having issues saving the files in the root folder, so having similar files on the same folder is "nicer".
  2. When a user changes the file before submitting or if the application is closed before submitting, the old file stays in the folder. It will be easier to run a query to delete all the files on a specific folder on a regular basis to keep the folder clean instead of having orphan files filling the space.

Thanks

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With the code method of using Upload File, there's an option to set folder name.

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Thanks @Michael_Huang

Yeah, that was an option I explored but wanted to use the builtin option in order to make sure the user doesn't do anything before the file is loaded as it shows the loading icon... I don't want to need to play with awaiting logic in my app to get the file loaded and handle error/success.

Also the builtin option has the file id in the FileInput object; no need to have anything else...

It would be very useful to have an option to choose the folder

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Feedback about choosing folder noted.

Adding event handler for Change would allow skipping user action.

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Thanks @Michael_Huang . I already changed the logic to have a modal frame for the user to simply select the file so then it can trigger the query to upload the file into the folder I want. Sucks because it is a modal on top of a modal; but it works for now.

Thanks,