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sacker
7 years agoExplorer | Level 3
/set_access_inheritance
Hi all
Did someone test that API ?
set_access_inheritance
To foul to test now, but.. is it the way that we asked, for disabling inheritance of permissions for subfolders ??
Any feedback ?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
I'm not sure I understand your question. Can you elaborate? This endpoint should change the inheritance policy of a shared folder in a team shared Dropbox. Have you tried it, and if so, did you run in to any issues with it? Thanks in advance!- sackerExplorer | Level 3
Hi
thanks for the response
No i did not take time to test it, but i will surely do ...
My question is simple :
Does that API permit to stop inheritance of the permissions in a folder, and thus take back permission for a group, that has been given on a high level folder.
Example :
Teamfolder1 - Group A and GRoupB READ PErmission
SHFolder1 - GroupA and GROUPB Modified Permission
Folder2 - Group A and GROUPB READ PERMISSION (inherited)
SHFolder3 - GroupA NO PERMISSION - Group B READ PErmission (Using /set_access_inheritance, and sharing to GROUP B)
As i wask asking around, and reading forums, i understood it was not possible to disable inheritance at all.
Sebastien
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for elaborating! Yes, it sounds like this is what you're looking for then. You would set "access_inheritance" to "no_inherit" for that.
Note that this only applies to the new team space and member folders configuration though. Your team may not have that yet.
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