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dhruvin
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3 years ago

Property Groups in DropBox UI.

Hi, There is an API endpoint that allows us to add property groups to files ad folders. But I'm not able to find any option on the dropbox web app to do the same. Is there any setting I need to ena...
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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

dhruvin The file properties functionality on the Dropbox API is meant as a way for third party apps to set and get custom information for use by the third party app itself, e.g., to show in its own UI. Dropbox doesn't expose this information in the official Dropbox UI, 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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