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adamb924
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1 year ago

Suddenly getting "no_permission/unauthorized_account_id_usage/" with add_folder_member endpoint

We've recently started getting different behavior from the API when calling add_folder_member. We're getting the error  "no_permission/unauthorized_account_id_usage/".   I've replicated it in the A...
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Greg-DB
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1 year ago

adamb924 Thanks for following up. Can you clarify where/how you retrieved that "dbid" value that you're passing to /2/sharing/add_folder_member?

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    Greg-DB
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    1 year ago

    adamb924 Thanks for the information. In that case, yes, please use email addresses for this use case, instead of copying over the identifier from the other authorization.

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