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Kostex's avatar
Kostex
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Metadata field 'description' for files/folders

Hello,   I've like to ask if is possible to add custom (string) description to file/folder? Or is there any way to use other metadata field which will allow me to store that data? I used to this fi...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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9 years ago
The Dropbox API doesn't offer this unfortunately, but I'll be sure to pass this along as feedback.

(The closest thing is the file templates/properties functionality, currently in preview, but that's only available for Dropbox Business teams/apps.)
Kostex's avatar
Kostex
Explorer | Level 3
9 years ago

Hi Greg, 

thank you for help.

 

Best regards

-Kostex

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