Single File Upload Progress Bar

  • Kincadep
    Asked on June 15, 2018 at 6:56 PM

    Hi There,

    I have a form integrated in my website where users upload files and they are sent to my Google Drive. I have done lots of research to see if I can develop a solution from my end to display a file upload progress bar, but it seems that since the files are not being uploaded to my site directly there's nothing I can do with PHP and FTP. 

    I was reading a JotForm article from 3 years ago, and it said that a status bar is available for the multiple upload field but not the single upload field. It was said to be in development, but it seems it still doesn't exist.

    This is a pretty important feature and it's unfortunate that I can't do anything about it from my end. Can this be added to a feature request list? When users are uploading large files they often don't realize they haven't finished uploading, despite instructions. You always have to assume the user will mess up if it's possible to, and a progress bar would help this immensely.

  • Mike
    Replied on June 15, 2018 at 8:58 PM

    Thank you for contacting us.

    I would like to suggest trying the Multiple Files upload mode. I think that the old limit of 100MB per file is no longer applied to the multiple upload fields.

    Single File Upload Progress Bar Image 1 Screenshot 30

    I have just tested it and was able to upload two 250MB files without any issues.

    For single upload mode we use standard <input> element with type="file", so it uses a standard browser element. Some browsers like Google Chrome show the progress bar like this:

    Single File Upload Progress Bar Image 2 Screenshot 41