Tabular form - field to open explorer select file name to same in field

Question

Hi
I am using apex 4.1 and would like some help with a tabular form I have created.
It is based on a table which has two fields
description
path_of_source_file
in the form I would like to be able to open windows explored to select a file name and save the path in the path_of_source_file field
Does anyone know how to do that
Many thanks
Jayne

Answer 1

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Start by editing your forum profile with a real handle instead of "user1647153".
I am using apex 4.1 and would like some help with a tabular form I have created.
It is based on a table which has two fields
description
path_of_source_file
in the form I would like to be able to open windows explored to select a file name and save the path in the path_of_source_file fieldYou need to seriously rethink what you're trying do. Not only does APEX not provide support for file browse items in tabular forms (which are horrible anyway; even more so with an ugly file picker in every row), but file path information is not available in standard browser configurations (or at all in most browsers). As has been noted in many previous threads on this topic:
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For security/privacy reasons recent versions of browsers by default do not send local file path information from File Browse items to the server, nor expose the file path in the control's JavaScript methods. Firefox, Safari and Chrome only provide the filename. IE6 & IE7 still yield the path in Windows format. IE8+ and Opera have adopted an irritating approach of replacing the path with a wholly imaginary "C:\fakepath\"—and this monstrosity has sadly had to be enshrined in the HTML5 spec...
Changing IE's security config setting "Include local directory path when uploading files" enables the path to be exposed in IE, but unless you're working in an intranet environment where: IE is the only browser used; it's possible to make remote changes to this setting on every desktop; and this won't break/expose anything else, then trying to achieve this is pointless.
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For more information see:
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/018980.html
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/03/20/rtm-platform-changes.aspx
http://developers.whatwg.org/number-state.html#file-upload-state
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Go right back to the start and explain what this is all about. We need to know what the ultimate goal is in order to determine what use—if any—can be made of APEX here.