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JimmyMcnulty
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2 years ago
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Creating an integration for both Regular and Business users

I created a Dropbox app that allows users to upload files into my app. All was well until I realized, that users with Dropbox for Business can't import files, because I needed different scopes for th...
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    Greg-DB
    2 years ago

    Yes, that's correct. Using the 'pathRoot' property sets the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header; if you use the "root" mode like that and set it to the account's root_namespace_id that would set the call to operate in the root for the account (such as the team space, if any).

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JimmyMcnulty
New member | Level 2
2 years ago

Thanks for the reply Greg.

 


I think I managed to have a small breakthrough after your explanation:

 

new Dropbox({
  accessToken,
  pathRoot: JSON.stringify({ ".tag": "root", root: "XXX" })
});
 
In this example, I'm assuming this will always work, as long as I pass 
root_namespace_id from /2/users/get_current_account, is that correct?
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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

Yes, that's correct. Using the 'pathRoot' property sets the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header; if you use the "root" mode like that and set it to the account's root_namespace_id that would set the call to operate in the root for the account (such as the team space, if any).

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