File browser dialog box like app.browseForDoc()

Dear all,
Is it possible to write script in LC Designer ES2 such that a file dialog box is presented to the form filler to choose a file he wants?
It should be similar to app.browseForDoc() (which I can't use in Designer ??security issue)
or xfa.host.importData() which will prompt the user to provide a location and file name.
All I want is to get the path and filename information for the chosen file.
Rgds.

Dear Paul,
In my case, the form is originally defined an ODBC connection with a specified Excel file.
The file name and path will then be held or hardcoded in the connectString under xfa.sourceSet.source.
Sadly you told me that it can't modified by script as it is protected, So I clone a new dataconnection
to modify the connectString such that I can point to another Excel file and work on that new connection..
It works so I moved further step to try if I can open a file dialog to let the form filler to choose his own file.
Is there any other method I can try?
Rgds.

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