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Mirror Dropbox Folder between Web App w/ Read/Write Access for Web App Users
We're building a new web app for our organization to manage and deliver content to each of our individual clients through the internet. We have a Dropbox business account that we utilize for all of our files and data. Our app will publish content and such to a public website for each one of our clients, respectively. Within the web app, we want to be able to create a document storage interface but sync or "mirror" the folders with a main folder within Dropbox. What this means is that if a user creates a new subfolder or adds a file in either A. Dropbox or B. within our web app, the folder and file structure will mirror each other.
- Each client will have a separate main folder with subfolders and files inside it to display the content we upload
- Anyone with access to either our Business Dropbox account or a user account on our Web App should be able to edit the main folder's content
Some questions I have:
- If a team member authorizes our app to sync with Dropbox, can other users within our app still view and edit the synced folder or will they need to authorize their account as well?
- Is it possible to have complete mirroring between the two applications?
- Has anyone had any experience with something like this before?
Why we want to do this:
- Easy access and management of subfolders files without logging into our web app interface
- Some users have access to Dropbox and others have access to just our web app. Most of our web app users are not a part of our Dropbox business team but still need read/write access to the main client folders.
Looking forward to any input you might be able to divulge on this topic.
2 Replies
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
1. This depends on how your app is set up. Access via the Dropbox API comes down to the access token though. The access token identifies the app, user or team (depending on the app type), and level of access that app has to that user or team. So, if you want your web app to just connect to a single Dropbox account, you can set that up once and have the app use that for all users of your web app without connecting their own accounts. That's all up to you though. If you have any specific questions while implementing it, let me know.
2. The Dropbox API does offer the ability to perform all file operations (e.g., add, update, move, copy, delete) so you can certainly implement this.
3. It sounds like this is more of a question for the community, so hopefully someone can chime in. If you have any other technical questions or issues about the Dropbox API though, just let me know!
Thanks for that insight, Gregory.
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