Update progress for custom files upload

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Hey guys!

I’m trying to create a multi file drag & drop upload and I’m having some issue with the built-in progress bar.
I am not using the native workflow, but a loop with multiple http PUT calls. So far so good, I managed to make the thing work, but now I’m facing the problem of the progress bar:
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They do not update themselves anymore, logic since I bypassed the native flow but I was wondering if there was a possiblity for me to:

  • Bind some king of variables to the Http request, to know the progress of it (upload progression)
  • Not having to create an array to bind each file to a variable to assess when it’s done (since I have 20 files, it seems overly complex)

Thank you for the really nice product!

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Can we see your workflow? And to what do you bind the list of files

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Hey Luka, thank you for your answer. Here is the workflow to upload files to my server:

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Here’s the fomula linked to the body of my request
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I simply iterate through the array created by the drop zone.

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Maybe someone can correct me, but I’m not sure you will be able to get the percentage of the upload back with just the API call - from Perplexity

How about putting a infinite spinner on the file until the rest api is done and then just remove the spinner to indicate that it’s uploaded?

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Thanks for your answer! That’s indeed what I am going to do.
I was just wondering how you could have a loading bar in your buit-in functions and if we could use this value in a Rest API call.