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Srinivas P.3
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10 years ago

Associating a new file format with our custom application.

Hello, We have a new file format created for our application. So, our customers in their end would have Dropbox installed and will get these new files. So, the usage would be that first time when...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

I just wanted to follow up on this thread to let you know about a new feature called "Extensions" you may be interested in. It's a way for third party web applications to register certain file type extensions so that users of the app can easily open files of that type in the app from the Dropbox web site. You can find information on it here:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/lp/developers/reference/extensions-guide

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