https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/link-to-file-rather-than-upload Gravity Support Forums Topic: Link to file rather than upload en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:58:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/link-to-file-rather-than-upload#post-43840 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:40:57 +0000 Chris Hajer 43840@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Good reading:<br /> <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81180/how-to-get-the-file-path-from-html-input-form-in-firefox-3" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/81180/how-to-get-the-file-path-from-html-input-form-in-firefox-3</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/link-to-file-rather-than-upload#post-43838 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:34:33 +0000 Chris Hajer 43838@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I see what you're trying to do now. Not upload the file, but submit the path only. I don't think you can do that with a file upload dialog in a browser. You might have to fake it with JavaScript to get the path, and then submit that to the form in a text field, not the file upload field. You'd have to write some functionality to make it look like a file upload dialog to the browser, to trigger the browse dialog on the user's computer.</p> <p>I don't know exactly how to do this, as it won't be Gravity Forms functionality, but I will leave this open for other suggestions. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/link-to-file-rather-than-upload#post-43824 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:57:50 +0000 bleepa 43824@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks for the quick reply.</p> <p>I basically want a field where the user can browse to a mapped network drive and point to a file and then submit the form with the field storing the UNC path to that file.</p> <p>I don't want the form to upload the file that has been selected.</p> <p>Hope that makes sense. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/link-to-file-rather-than-upload#post-43757 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:27:13 +0000 Chris Hajer 43757@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You want to allow visitors to upload the file still, but you want to store the UNC path rather than the URI? And then where will you use that path? I'm curious what you're trying to do. Please post more details. Thanks </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/link-to-file-rather-than-upload#post-43740 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:46:41 +0000 bleepa 43740@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Is there any way to use the file upload field to save the link to the file (UNC path) rather than actually upload the file? </p>