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Cannot find a way to have a restricted API access to a team-shared folder
Hello, I have an accounting system for which we'd like to leverage our Dropbox Business subscription. What I need is a Dropbox folder, shared with specific members only, and a way to create a Dropb...
Ultimately it worked out fine. I indeed used the trick in point #3, then:
- POST /2/users/get_current_account (with an auth token for the restricted user) then fetch root_info/root_namespace_id
- from there, add the header:
Dropbox-Api-Path-Root set to {".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": the_root_namespace_id}
- fetch using /2/files/list_folder (and continue version)
This allows restricted access to a team-shared folder.
Now a word of feedback: I really hope in the future it will be possible to avoid the creation of a specific user & restrictions, and instead have Dropbox provide an additional level of access (instead of Full Dropbox vs. User-Specific-Folder) to allow access to a restricted list of folders.
In all cases, thanks for your help, which put me on good track!
-- Thibaut
chirstius
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffSounds like that might be the case then. If you have additional questions just post them back, but once you get the root namespace, and add the path root header to your requests, I think you'll be in a good place.
Good luck!
-Chuck
Ultimately it worked out fine. I indeed used the trick in point #3, then:
- POST /2/users/get_current_account (with an auth token for the restricted user) then fetch root_info/root_namespace_id
- from there, add the header:
Dropbox-Api-Path-Root set to {".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": the_root_namespace_id}
- fetch using /2/files/list_folder (and continue version)
This allows restricted access to a team-shared folder.
Now a word of feedback: I really hope in the future it will be possible to avoid the creation of a specific user & restrictions, and instead have Dropbox provide an additional level of access (instead of Full Dropbox vs. User-Specific-Folder) to allow access to a restricted list of folders.
In all cases, thanks for your help, which put me on good track!
-- Thibaut
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
I'm glad to hear you got this working. I've sent this along as a feature request for a way to restrict access to specified paths only. Thanks!
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