# uploadFile

**Type:** GraphQL mutations

**Description:**
Specify a file *name* and *type* for a given file to be uploaded and get a *fileId* and *uploadUrl* for it.

Use HTTP POST to upload the file content to the *uploadUrl*. The *uploadUrl* has a 15-minute expiration time so use it before then.

Pass the *fileId* as a parameter to other mutations, but only after posting the file content to the *uploadUrl*.

## Arguments
- fileUpload (FileUploadInput): undefined
  - name (String): Full file name
  - type (FileType, Not Null): File type

  - category (Category): Service where the file will be used (optional)


## Response
**Type:** FileUpload
**Description:**
Attributes of the file to be uploaded

### Fields
- id (String): Unique File ID
- name (String): Full file name provided by the user
- type (FileType): File type corresponds directly with the MIME type (and often the file extension)
- uploadUrl (String): Signed URL enabling file upload via HTTP PUT with 15-minute expiration