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App Folders and Business access
I am a member in a Business account with no special permissions. If I create an App with App Folder access, who else in the business gets access to the app folder while the app is "in development"?
The web interface suggests the access is "Only you", but I'd like to make it available to the whole organization. Is that possible? Would the answer be different if my permissions were different?
- The special "app folder" created for an app with the "app folder" permission is only accessible to the user that connected the app (you, in this case). This is the same regardless of your account plan (free, paid, Business, etc.) as well as the app's status (development vs. production).
It's unfortunately not possible to share the app folder with others. If you need to have the app interact with shared folders, you'd need to create an app with the "full Dropbox" permission instead, so that can create and share arbitrary folders.
- Greg-DB
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The special "app folder" created for an app with the "app folder" permission is only accessible to the user that connected the app (you, in this case). This is the same regardless of your account plan (free, paid, Business, etc.) as well as the app's status (development vs. production).
It's unfortunately not possible to share the app folder with others. If you need to have the app interact with shared folders, you'd need to create an app with the "full Dropbox" permission instead, so that can create and share arbitrary folders.Thanks for the quick reply. Any chance, down the road, that we'll get more flexible control over API access control? Something linked to Team Folders, perhaps?
- Greg-DBI'm not aware of current plans for anything like that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
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