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sonofsylvanus
5 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Creating a Share Link Destroys Another Share Link
Hi. I hope you can help me!
I have an Integromat.com scenario involving the Dropbox "Create/Update a Share Link" module. It works great, in and of itself.
Using information from Monday.co...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
5 years agoCreating a shared link for any particular item via the Dropbox API should not (and does not, in my testing just now) automatically destroy the shared link for an enclosing folder of that item.
We'll be happy to look into what is happening in your case specifically, but we'll need some more information. Please have the developer open an API ticket here with the technical details of the API calls they're making, and the unexpected results they're getting so we can investigate:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact
Thanks!
sonofsylvanus
5 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Hi Greg,
Thanks for your reply.
Greg-DB wrote:Creating a shared link for any particular item via the Dropbox API should not (and does not, in my testing just now) automatically destroy the shared link for an enclosing folder of that item.
Aha! This is good to know.
I'll take the next steps you suggest.
Thanks
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