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DevDood
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3 years ago

Share my folder contents with employees in a restricted area of my website

All I want to do is share a folder with employees in a password restricted area of our website.  I want them to be able to read/write to this folder.  I'm using PHP and can get it to do what I need i...
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DevDood
New member | Level 2
3 years ago

To follow up, I was able to successfully get the embedder to work as needed by using /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings which generated a url that worked with the embedder.

 

The "Owner hasn't granted you access to this link" error I was getting was because I was using an "edit" link instead of a "view" link.

At this point I'm able to get my app to work the way I need to without requiring users to log in to Dropbox.  I'll have to come up with another solution to allow users to upload images.

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    Greg-DB
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    3 years ago

    Thanks for following up. I'm glad to hear you already got the Dropbox Embedder working.

     

    To allow users to upload files to your account, check out the "file requests" feature.

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