There are a few places where in order to load or open a file (website import image and in web client), you have to specify a URL. Should be able to do the same from a local file. See Specification for this enhancement (Load from File Spec.docx):
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B3UI2GmfMrltVkpzMHJaQU1LNlk
astrojonathan
commented
5 years ago
There are a few places where in order to load or open a file (website import image and in web client), you have to specify a URL. Should be able to do the same from a local file. See Specification for this enhancement (Load from File Spec.docx): https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0B3UI2GmfMrltVkpzMHJaQU1LNlk