i tried uploading a file in lucee and used this to extract name and got null

GetPageContext().formScope().getUploadResource('#arguments.fieldName#').getName()

Why not use the standard approach

and what is the standard approach

it's already uploaded

You can't expect to run code on the server and detect things that are still on the client machine. How would that work? @Simone do you actually understand how.... web... requests... work? I mean seriously? Do you?

Is there a code of conduct for this cfml workspace? The above is not particularly helpful or welcoming to someone trying to learn..

well, i solved it and @Adam Cameron and saying its not possible, is just all wrong, Thanks for coming back to my question again

saying its not possible, is just all wrong

Um. OK then. I'll play your game. How can the CFML server "get the filename before upload"?

@Adam Cameron I don’t disagree that some devs don’t know the fundamentals, my comment is directed more at the condescending tone you’ve used toward someone asking for help.

And that's worth a figuratively waving the code of conduct around is it? I see. TBH I'm not sure how to not sound a bit patronising when asking if a web dev understands how web dev works. I did try to use the ellipses to make myself sound hesitant that I was even asking (and, I thought, in a slightly light-hearted way. I'll stick to coding I guess ;-) FWIW I referred myself to the other admins, and those that replied confirmed I did not have a case to answer. So I did take your comment seriously in the official sense, if not really in a "seriously? That's how you've chosen to participate in the thread?" sense.