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Poui
3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
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...
Здравко
3 years agoLegendary | Level 20
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
3 years agoHelpful | Level 5
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.
- Здравко3 years agoLegendary | Level 20
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-DB3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
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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