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Is there a way to to see who edited the file?

Is there a way to to see who edited the file?

philipkd
Collaborator | Level 8
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Is there a way to see, via the API, who edited the file? I'm trying to disrupt Google Docs, and that's a core feature of their revision history.

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Greg-DB
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The sharing_info.modified_by property of FileMetadata, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder[/continue] has the ID of the user that last modified a file if the file is in a shared folder.

 

This is also available on each object returned by /2/files/list_revisions.

 

Does that satisfy your use case?

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philipkd
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Digging further into the docs, I'm presuming I could accomplish this with properties? Simply add a property for the author's email address?

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
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The sharing_info.modified_by property of FileMetadata, e.g., as returned by /2/files/get_metadata or /2/files/list_folder[/continue] has the ID of the user that last modified a file if the file is in a shared folder.

 

This is also available on each object returned by /2/files/list_revisions.

 

Does that satisfy your use case?

philipkd
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Excellent, thanks Greg! Missed that while skimming the calls.

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