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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
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
Dropbox Community ModeratorI'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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