Hi Thao Nguyen

The File Upload field would already store the filename. Why would you need to duplicate the value into another field in the same form?

Thank Matthew for your reply

Because the name of Uploaded file is a name of process that is exported from another application. I would need only 8 first characters of it then set text field to Datalist View so that it will be easier to track or monitor it.

Could you please show me how i could do it?

Hi Thao Nguyen

You can try using Javascript to copy the value of the "File Upload" field to a hidden field/another text field and using Javascript string processing to truncate the filename value, enclosing everything in a <SCRIPT></SCRIPT> command.

Do download the Service Help Desk app from Joget Marketplace where in the form Enterprise Issue:Update, you can view some working samples of javascripting (in CustomHTML field).

The Simple Leave app Apply Leave form also has simple javascripting to perform client side processing.

Dear Matthew

Noted with many thanks

I get the filename from the FileUpload. But I can not remove the file extension in this case.

Just to remove .pdf . Could somebody help?

Hi matthew, Pls help to check my code below whether correct or wrong: I could not get the filename from field ReferenceNumber. <script> 'var e = $('[name$=FileUpload1]').val() = e.slice(0, -4) ; var s = $('[name$=ReferenceNumber]').val(); var x = $('[name$=FileUpload1]').val(); var s = x.substr(0, x.lastIndexOf('.')); </script>

You can try reading this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substring

Hello Matthew, the reference number textfield value = the id of fileupload ========> but how to put the script to remove *pdf in the reference number? I tried to create a custom html but does not work.