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1575475
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago
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How to obtain shared folder metadata after calling endpoint /2/sharing/share_folder

Hi everybody, yesterday our Team Dropbox has been converted to shared team space. Now our API (REST calls via HTTP) we've developed during the last months is completely broken since we cannot cre...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    3 years ago

    1575475 Yes, it sounds like non-inheritance would make sense in that case, and yes you can make folders in the team space, and make groups, permit groups to folders, and add members to groups.

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1575475
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Hi Здравко,

thank you. In the mean time I already was evaluating this endpoint, but unfortunately another problem occurred: No job is running (even after polling for about 10 Minutes or so), job id - of course - is present.

Setting for /2/sharing/share_folder: "force_async":false

 

Any suggestions?

 

Thank you and best regards,

Jan

 

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago
1575475 wrote:

... No job is running (even after polling for about 10 Minutes or so), job id - of course - is present.

Setting for /2/sharing/share_folder: "force_async":false

...

I'm not aware of any explicit time limits. 🤔 For sure 10 mins should be enough. You can force such a query to be async, but no opposite! Setting "force_async" to false (by the way the default value) will just not force it be async, but without guarantees for synchronous execution. You should always check is the execution synchronous or asynchronous (if not forced) and when asynchronous, wait for complete or error. You should poll using /2/sharing/check_job_status; what does it return?

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