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devid13
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

How to get Access Token for background process without any user integractions?

Hi Team,  We are doing dropbox integration to upload files from salesforce to dropbox. To do this we are doing background processing and to get access token we always use "Long-lived" from the ...
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DuraUser
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Hi Greg/Team,

 

In your response you mentioned that we can use refresh token to get short lived access tokens without further manual interaction. How long can we keep using the refresh token. Is there a time limit on when Refresh token also expires?

 

"With the new system of short-lived access tokens and optional refresh tokens, in order to maintain long-term access without further manual user interaction, the app would need to request "offline" access, to get and store a refresh token, in addition to the short-lived access token"

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

DuraUser Dropbox refresh tokens don't expire automatically, but they can be revoked by the app or user on demand.

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