Append uppy Dashboard files on existing form data

This may be the silliest question ever but I’m struggling for hours now and thought to give it a shot:

I’m using Rails and have a simple form with the following input fields:

• Name
• Email
• Attachments

My question is this: Is it possible to attach uppy (with its cool-looking Dashboard) in my existing form and submit all data at once using the parent form’s submit button?

I think I currently can’t do this; If I use XHRUpload and let a user submit attachments asynchronously I’d have to do lots of “housekeeping” since I won’t have a user model id on the server to attach the files to.

Using a regular form field instead, I do get all the files on form submission but I don’t get to use the awesome Dashboard. Is there a middle ground?

Is there a way to use uppy and let users select and remove files through its Dashboard but only upload on my form’s submit?

[arturi]

Hi! What you can do:

1. In Dashboard optionally set inline: true to show Dashboard inline with your form, and then hideUploadButton: true to hide the upload button, so you can use your own from the form. See https://uppy.io/docs/dashboard/ for details.
2. Use Form plugin https://uppy.io/docs/form/ to attach <form> input key/values to file uploads. Use Uppy’s upload button or uppy.upload() to trigger the upload.

Or intercept your form’s submit event and call uppy.upload() so that Uppy will send the files along with metadata to your server. You could also get files that user selected from Uppy by iterating over uppy.state.files object. There’s currently no way to just use the Dashboard as file picker that will add actual files to your form’s input, but there is a way to upload those files first, and then append results (urls) to your form.

I am not sure which of those would help the most, but I think this is a valid use case which we were hoping to cover with Form plugin, and I’d be happy to add more options to it.

[andrew-oko-odion]

please how did you resolve this issue, I am challenged with the same problem