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philipkd
10 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
Is there a way to to see who edited the file?
Is there a way to see, via the API, who edited the file? I'm trying to disrupt Google Docs, and that's a core feature of their revision history.
The sharing_info.modified_by property of FileMetadata, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder[/continue] has the ID of the user that last modified a file if the file is in a shared folder.
This is also available on each object returned by /2/files/list_revisions.
Does that satisfy your use case?
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- philipkd10 years agoCollaborator | Level 8Digging further into the docs, I'm presuming I could accomplish this with properties? Simply add a property for the author's email address?
- Greg-DB10 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
The sharing_info.modified_by property of FileMetadata, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder[/continue] has the ID of the user that last modified a file if the file is in a shared folder.
This is also available on each object returned by /2/files/list_revisions.
Does that satisfy your use case?
- philipkd10 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
Excellent, thanks Greg! Missed that while skimming the calls.
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