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PagingMrHerman
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6 years ago
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Proposed design for uploading and sharing to Dropbox for Healthcare customers

I'd like to get feedback about whether my plan for using the APIs is a good fit for our use-case.   Use case: Our company produces files, and some of our customers who have "Dropbox for Healthc...
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PagingMrHerman
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6 years ago

Yes, our use of the API would be exclusively via a server-based process (that keeps its credentials in env vars instead of its code).

 

My main technical question is: Would creating one top-level folder per customer, and inviting the customer's users via their Dropbox-registered email addresses, allow us to deliver files to those users by having our server upload to that folder whenever we have a new file to deliver to them?

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