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guymayor
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Get parent team folder from name space

Hey,

When I am using https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#team_log-get_events-continue to get events I got the path without the team folder and the minimum shared parent folder namespace witch could be a inner folder inside the team folder.

from your API I understand that teams may have multiple team folders. so I need to know the parent team folder of the file.

is there a quick way to get a file's/ folder's team folder? 

Thanks. 

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    Thanks for confirming! Unfortunately, no, I can't think of a more direct or faster way to query that information. 

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    Greg-DB
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    I'm not sure I understand your specific scenario here, but it sounds like you may want to use the /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata endpoint. You could supply the team or shared folder ID as the shared_folder_id, which would give you the 'parent_shared_folder_id' value. You could then call again with that ID to get the information for that parent folder.

    If that isn't what you're looking for, please share a sample so I can take a closer look for your use case, e.g., so I can see what particular event you're working from. Thanks!

    • guymayor's avatar
      guymayor
      Explorer | Level 4

      Thank's for the response.

       You have understood me right :)

      I have already thought about the solution you suggested but I wondered if there is a simpler, not recursive way to do that (Just get the parent team_folder_id form file_id or ns_id in one call)?

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        Thanks for confirming! Unfortunately, no, I can't think of a more direct or faster way to query that information. 

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