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wojwal
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
Best approach for Dropbox-API-Select-Admin for files endpoints using Team credentials for Business
Hi guys, I'm currently integrating with Dropbox Business. I have Team credentials with "team_id"... And I don't want to work on behalf on specific user/admin. My main goal is actually to work wit...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
5 years agoDropbox doesn't have an official best practice/recommendation for this, nor a "Default" option like you described, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.
So, you can do whatever works best for your app. I suggest something like option 2, but instead of rechecking on a schedule, just catch the relevant error if/when the admin ID is no longer valid and then get a current admin ID and retry the call.
Also, there is the /2/team/token/get_authenticated_admin endpoint to check which admin authorized a particular access token, so that may be a good value to start with.
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