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Can anyone tell me why exactly I need to create a team to add file attributes to a file? All I want to do is add a single attribute called "FileParentIdentifier" (which will hold a string value i.e ...
- A "team" refers to a Dropbox Business level collection of accounts. If you're interested, you can find more information here:
https://www.dropbox.com/business
Note that you don't need a Dropbox Business team to use the file properties functionality on the Dropbox API though:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#file_properties
You can use a "full Dropbox" app to create templates that you can apply to files, whether or not the linked account is part of a Business team. (There is also a concept of templates owned by teams, but that is not required.)
So, in short, you can:
1. Register a full Dropbox app, if you haven't already: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create
2. Connect a user using the OAuth flow: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
3. Create a template using/2/file_properties/templates/add_for_user : https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#file_properties-templates-add_for_user
4. Add file properties for your template to any number of files using /2/file_properties/properties/add: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#file_properties-properties-add
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorYes, that's expected. The property values won't be returned in the metadata from the upload itself. A successful response as you're receiving does indicate that is was successfully submitted though.
You need to call and explicitly request the property values, as you have done.
And yes, the template ID for a given template doesn't change, so you can and should store and re-use it.
You need to call and explicitly request the property values, as you have done.
And yes, the template ID for a given template doesn't change, so you can and should store and re-use it.
Okay... Thank you. :)
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