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Poui
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

How to create a folder in a team shared folder and make it accessible to a small part of the team

Hi, I am currently using Make (a no code platform) to automate the creation of a folder in a shared folder after the start of a new project. The issue is that everyone (30 ~) have access to that fol...
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Poui's avatar
Poui
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

Hi Здравко,

 

So after the creation of the folder, I need to share it through this endpoint 

https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/share_folder

with the 

"access_inheritance": "no_inherit"

in the body of the request,
I will then use this endpoint 

https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/add_folder_member

 with all the members that need to access that folder in the body

Здравко's avatar
Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
2 years ago

Yes, that's one of the scenarios I mentioned above (when you are nesting shared folders and need to exclude derived/inherited access - when parent folder has more members than needed).

 

Poui wrote:

Hi Здравко,

 

So after the creation of the folder, I need to share it ...

By the way, you can do it in one call. When you share a non existing folder, it's created automatically. 😉

  • Poui's avatar
    Poui
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    Hi, thanks again for your help but I have two questions.

    1. When I try to share a non-existing folder, i get this error instead of it creating like you said :

    {
    "error_summary": "no_permission/...",
    "error": {
        ".tag": "no_permission"
    },
    "user_message": {
        "locale": "en",
        "text": "You don’t have permission to perform this action."
    }
}

    2. despite removing the access inheritance of the folder, my team still have a folder on their dropbox explorer of that folder. It doesn't disappear.

    • Здравко's avatar
      Здравко
      Legendary | Level 20
      2 years ago

      To be honest I can't reproduce that. It works for me. Are you sure the context you're representing, in your call, really has access permission there? 🤔 You may need admin access! Who is the owner of the parent folder and if that's not you, as a member, what access you have?

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
      Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
      2 years ago

      Poui 2. If you create a shared folder without inheritance in a team folder, the other members will still see the nested shared folder itself; they just won't be able to access its contents.

       

      If that's not the behavior you want, you may want to create the shared folder outside the team folder.

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