Advanced file upload support
Easyform supports the following advanced file upload features:
Preview files prior to upload
Rename files prior to upload
File specific and form level progress bars
Here's an example form with file uploads in action:
Click o view in full screen Limit uploads to a single file
To limit uploads to a single file, select the file field and turn on the the Limit to single file setting:
Click to view in full screen Limit uploads to a specific number of files
Select the file field and enter a number in the Max files setting:
Click to view in full screen Limit the file size
By default, easyform imposes the same limit that monday imposes on file size, which is a maximum file size of 500MB.
To enforce a smaller limit, enter the limit in MB in the Max file size setting:
Click to view in full screen Limit to specific file types
You can limit the type of files uploaded to:
Specific file types based on the file's extension. You can either select an extension from the predefined extensions list or enter an extension of your own.
Any combination of categories (image, video, audio) and file extensions
Note: The file types limit:
Will control the files displayed in the operating's system's file selection dialog
Will be enforced by easyform
To limit to specific file types, select one or more categories or extensions:
Click to view in full screen Or add your own by typing it and pressing enter:
Click to view in full screen Retrying uploads
Due to the way the monday api works, files are uploaded to the file column after the form submission was created in the board. If one or more uploads fail, the user can retry and upload the files to the created monday item. This may happen due to API rate limitations imposed by monday on your account. Here's how it will look:
Click to view in full screen Renaming files prior to uploads
A user filling the form can rename a file prior to uploading it so that the file name in the monday board will be different than the file name in the user's operating system. Here's an example:
Click to view in full screen Preview image files prior to upload
Image files added to an upload field, can be previewed to make sure they're the right file(s), by clicking on the file's thumbnail:
Click to view in full screen If the user added multiple image files, they can go through them easily:
Click to view in full screen Editing & translating field texts
If your form is in a language other than English, you can enter a translation for the following file upload related form texts:
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