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dsimonson
8 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Getting started - adding users to my app
I have just created a Dropbox app to allow users to save a file from my FileMaker app to a folder (created by the Dropbox app) on their personal Dropbox. It worked great for me (I'm very excited!...
MilesSmith
7 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Greg-DB wrote:
As long as you've clicked the "Enable additional users" button on the App Console already (which it sounds like you have), you don't need to do anything else on the App Console to add other users explicitly.
In order to have other users connect their own Dropbox accounts, you should implement the OAuth 2 app authorization flow in your app. There's a guide here that explains how that flow works:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/oauth-guide
You can find the documentation for it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
(If you're using an official Dropbox SDK though, refer to the specific documentation for the SDK, as it will do most of the work for you.)
Once that's implemented in your app, you can distribute your app to them to have them use it and connect their Dropbox accounts.
Each access token is for a specific app-user pair, and allows access to that user's account, to the extent allowed by the app's permission. You should not distribute your own access token to end-users. Each end-user will get their own access token via the app authorization flow.
Am facing the same problem. Hope anyone here can help me too. Thanks in advance. Regards,
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
7 years agoMilesSmith Please open a new thread with details of what specifically you're stuck on so we can help.
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