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boby1
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

File permissions in shared folders

Hi,   I'm using Dropbox business team and want to programmatically list permissions on a file or folder. Using the apis, I'm able to retrieve the list of files and folders + a couple of properties...
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boby1
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

We need to know who has permissions on the file or folder, not what permission a specific user has on a file or folder.

Using your solution, if a company has 1000 users, we would need the check the permissions of the 1000 users one by one against a given file to determine the access list.

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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

To list all of the members of a shared folder, you would use ListFolderMembers and ListFolderMembersContinue. (Those correspond to /2/sharing/list_folder_members and /2/sharing/list_folder_members/continue).

 

Likewise, for a shared file, not just a file in a shared folder, you would use ListFileMembers and ListFileMembersContinue. There's also a batch version for that: ListFileMembersBatch. (Respectively: /2/sharing/list_file_members, /2/sharing/list_file_members/continue, and /2/sharing/list_file_members/batch.)

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