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OLR_A
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8 years ago
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API V2 Access team folders of bussines plan with Folder/Files operations

 i want to acces team folders using application user api for list,create folders, upload and download,etc.. and i'm going crazy. In API Explorer  with function "list_folder",  only can acces user ho...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago

    It sounds like you're using a Business team with the new team space and member folders configuration that some teams have access to.

     

    That being the case, you'll need to specify the team folder specifically when making API calls to access its contents, for example, by supplying the 'Dropbox-API-Path-Root' header. You can find more information on that here:

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/namespace-guide

     

    The Dropbox API Explorer is built for the older configuration, but we're working on updating the API and SDK support and documentation to support the new one. That's not quite ready yet though, so unfortunately there isn't a good way to use the API Explorer for this right now, but you can run it outside the of Explorer. Apologies for the inconvenience!

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

tianhong To set the 'Dropbox-API-Path-Root' header, you should instead use the provided 'Dropbox.with_path_root' method, like this:

dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(TOKEN).with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.namespace_id("1990815600"))
dbx.files_list_folder('')
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steve_r
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4 years ago

Are there constants for the root_namespace_id and home_namespace_id? Seems unnecessary to have to call the 

api to retrieve the namespace IDs. Can you use a constant for the these IDs given the current user? For example:
dbx = dropbox.Dropbox(TOKEN).with_path_root(dropbox.common.PathRoot.namespace_id(".root"))
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    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    steve_r No, the Dropbox API doesn't offer a constant for the root like that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though. Note that the root namespace ID can change though, so while you can cache the value so you don't have to look it up each time, be aware you can get an error if/when it does change, in which case you would look up the new one. Refer to the documentation for more information.

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