Add 'delete all' button to (Multi)FileField

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I would like to delete all files in the “Upload files” area automatically via a button. The reason for this is that I want to be able to upload new photos again in order to insert them into a new report.

Currently “files_picture” is deleted and the content in “MultiFileField” remains. I have not found anything helpful in the documentation and manually deleting all images is not an option in the long term.

Here is the view window “upload files”:

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Here is the Code:

files_picture = MultiFileField('Upload files', file_types=['.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg'], max_size=499_000_000)
delete_files_picture = SetParamsButton('Bilder löschen', method='delete_uploaded_pictures')

def delete_uploaded_pictures(self, params, **kwargs):
        uploaded_files = params.files_picture
        if uploaded_files:
            uploaded_files.clear()

        return SetParamsResult({
            "files_picture": uploaded_files,
            
        })
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Hi Johannes,

Welcome to the forum, thanks for posting!!

That’s a very interesting issue you’re raising there. There’s always a way to do everything, in this case I suspect your solutions has to lie somewhere in using a few API calls to remove the files. Our API documentation shows the different functionalities.

Just so I can maybe give you a working example: what app type are you using? and are there multiple FileFields in this entity?

3

Hi Daniel,

the app type is editor. Yes there are two FileFields. The first is for uploading a Word template and the second is for uploading several images.

4

Okay, after discussing it with our platform team we decided that rather than looking for a very hacky (and most likely quite unstable) workaround, we’d be better off just building this into the product itself.
Hence I will relabel this topic to a Feature Request and I’ll also add it to our internal issue tracker.

We’ll then keep you updated on the progress in this post