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Info V.1
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10 years ago
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Empty uid in second leg of oauth for "Team member file access" app

When a member authenticates for a business app of type "Team member file access", then in the second leg of oauth the uid is empty: Example: { "access_token": "8H9QotNcSyAAAAAAAABUbI0E-amnsmasn...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Dropbox for Business API apps are linked to Dropbox for Business teams, and not individual users/admins on teams. This can only be done by an admin, but the API doesn't currently return information about which admin specifically authorized it. I'm sending this along as a feature request though.

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