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Just upgraded our Dev servers to GAS 3.20.15 and the GBC is complaining the "Style=FileUpload has been deprecated Use fgl_getfile().  We use fgl_getfile after we get the windows file location using the input from the edit box.

I am wondering if there is a work around for this process or whether my thinking is still in version 2.X.   

There's no workaround that I am aware of.

We use a button edit in the form:

buttonedit f002 = formonly.file_src,required,not null,image="DownloadFolder",action=uploadfile;

and the corresponding action will be along the lines of, with some error handling of course:

        on action uploadfile
            call ui.Interface.frontCall("standard", "openfile", ["", %"Excel Files", "*.xlsx", %"Upload File"], file_src)
            if file_src is not null then
                call fgl_getfile(file_src, file_dst)
            end if

There is a page in the 3.0X GAS docs that explain this.   That page does not appear in 3.1X or later docs and it probably should, I have asked for it to be reinstated.

Gary has it right.  There needs to be an openFile front-call followed by FGL_GETFILE.  This is the cross platform solution for all front-ends, rather than having IF gdc do this ELSE IF Web do something different.

Essentially in a browser environment, you cannot have a standalone FGL_GETFILE(source filename, destination filename) where the source filename variable is coded by the developer without any user input.  For instance the equivalent of FGL_GETFILE("/etc/hosts",...), FGL_GETFILE("C:/<guess>/password.txt",...) etc, browsers simply do not allow to happen .  You have to force the user to choose a file via the openFile frontcall.  FGL_GETFILE then puts the chosen file in the desired destination.

Reuben