Assigning a GUID to a folder via Properties

[mjoyner1]

Greg................ happy holidays!.

Our App needs to add a metadata property, "app_id".

I can't follow from the ONLINE DOC's how to create the template as "property/template/add" isn't on the DOC SITE.

Our use case would be the following:

1) Add a GUID called "app_id" to a folder.

2) Be able to retrieve the folder by the "app_id" or to at least retrieve the METADATA via the app_id.

Please share some of that Dropbox wisdom on our situation. 🙂

[Greg-DB · Accepted solution]

Apologies for the confusion! This is actually referring to the /2/team/properties/template/add route. You can find the documentation for that in the "Business Endpoints" documentation:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#team-properties-template-add

I'll ask the team to clarify this in the documentation. 

For reference, that endpoint is located under the 'team' routes because it's only available for Business accounts.

[Greg-DB]

The Dropbox API now offers the ability to use file properties from full Dropbox (non-Business) API apps:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#file_properties

If you're using an official SDK, there will also be corresponding methods for these endpoints.