I'm a little lost. When I tried it, I got a non-empty string for each file input field that had a filename, and there was an empty string for each one where the user hadn't entered anything. Isn't that what you want? That way, you can test to see if anything was entered. Let me show you what I was testing. Here is my form, with two file-type inputs: <html> <form action='see_request2 '> <input type='file' name='file1'><br> <input type='file' name='file2'><br> <input type='submit' value='Try It'> </form> </html> Here's my handling form, see_request2: <html> <dtml-in "REQUEST.form.keys()"> <dtml-var sequence-item>:<dtml-var "_[_['sequence-item']]"> <dtml-if "_[_['sequence-item']]"> (passed if)</dtml-if><br> </dtml-in> </html> Here's the result, copied for the screen, where I entered "aaa" for the first file name and nothing for the 2nd file name: file1:aaa (passed if) file2: You see, it DOES differentiate between the fields where the user entered a filename and those where the user didn't. Isn't that what you want? If not, I need more clarification. I'm probably assuming something without realizing. Better show us a (shortened) sample of the form, at least. Tom P [Laurie Nason]
I tried this and it doesn't differentiate between ones where the user has entered a file to upload and ones where they haven't. I really need to be able to call the .filename method to see if it has one - but _['sequence-item'].filename doesn't like the fact that the _['sequence-item'] returns a string (thanks Casey again on a different post!) rather than the object itself. What I would like to be able to do is to call <dtml-if expr="_.getitem(sequence-item).filename">
But you can't escape the sequence-item again due to the fact that it returns a string...AARRGGHHH!!!
Any ideas???