Cleaning file picker

Anvil Q&A
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Hi!
when you are saving a form, after saving it to the DB, you want to clean your input fields, for example doing this:
self.txt_comment.text = ‘’
but what about the file picker?
Is there a way to clean it, so the user is ready to pick another file after saving?
Thanks!

2

Hey, that’s a good question. We’ve just updated Anvil, and you can now call clear() on a FileLoader component in order to remove any files in it.

Hope that helps!

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Will this also work for drop down menus?

Cheers,
John

4

Hi John,

If you’re talking about the DropDown component, you can reset those by setting the value property. (If you want to offer a “blank” option, you that should be listed in the items property)

FileLoaders are special, because you cannot write to the file property (it can only be set by the user selecting a file to upload), so they are the only component which needs a clear() method like this.

5

Excellent, thank you. Not sure why I was getting stuck on this :sweat_smile:

Cheers,
John