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toki4004
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2 years ago
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Way to search by property value?

I am assigning a custom property value to a file. Is there a way to search by it? I don't see property groups in your search example for: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/search_v2  How do I ma...
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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

No, that functionality doesn't offer a path filter, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.

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toki4004
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2 years ago

Ok, I am thinking that to get around it, I would have to create a separate template id for each path and then limit search to that template ID via "template_filter": "id_here". BUT then I might run into "too_many_templates" error. How many is too many? What's that number?

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