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kevin g.1
Helpful | Level 6
5 years ago
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Open with file explorer from anchor tag

Hi,     Is it possible to implement the "show in file explorer" option for folders from our own website similar to how it's done on dropbox.com?  Our current workflow has us clicking on a link to t...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    No, unfortunately that's not available via the API, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

Tech Dev Oldsmar's avatar
Tech Dev Oldsmar
Helpful | Level 6
3 years ago

Wondering if there is any further interest in supporting this feature through the API.  We use the API in production (which is rock solid, so thank you for a great product).  However, right now from the Intranet we open the DB folder then wait a bit for the context menu to show the "open in file explorer" to get to the local path.  This is a repetitive task so providing a direct link would net a lot of productivity.  

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago
Tech Dev Oldsmar wrote:

...  This is a repetitive task so providing a direct link would net a lot of productivity.  

If the local path of Dropbox folder is only thing you're interested in, doesn't info.json work for you? 🤔 In spite opposite task (mapping local path to API path) example of something similar can be seen here. Just concatenate the two paths in your case (Dropbox folder path and relative file/folder path within) to produce the full path. 🤷

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