File Uploader Component Conflict

Hi there! I'm seeing some odd behavior occurring with the file uploader component.

One of my clients has built a complex, multi-page form that has many required fields and quite a few conditional ones as well.

In particular, he has a file upload component that is triggered by a conditional field.

If a user lands on this page and does not put any data into the required fields, then clicks the Upload button on the file uploader component (without browsing first), the user is then able to bypass all required fields on the form and move to the next page. Furthermore, if there is data in the fields that precede the file upload component, and the Upload button is pressed without first browsing, all the data in the required fields that precede the uploader is wiped out.

I'm fairly confident that the issue is with the file uploader component because, when the form is filled out like it should be, things work just fine. It only starts to exhibit this odd behavior when the Upload button is pressed without having first browsed for a file.

This is a weird, deep issue that would require a user to do some rather unpredictable things, so I'm not expecting any kind of immediate solution. I would be interested in knowing if anyone else has experienced an issue similar to this, though.