Problem sharing folders and adding team members

Using a Dropbox Business API app with the "team member file access" permission is the right way to do this. That enables the app to use the "member file acces" feature, which includes the ability to create folders, share folders, and add members to shared folders.

Can you share the full code to reproduce the 'no_permission' error so we can take a look? Thanks in advance! 

Hello Greg,

Thanks for your reply, I am unable to attach the full code (getting "An Unexpected Error has occurred" message). So here it is :

import com.dropbox.core.DbxException;
import com.dropbox.core.DbxRequestConfig;

import com.dropbox.core.v2.DbxClientV2;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.DbxTeamClientV2;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.files.FolderMetadata;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.files.FileMetadata;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.files.ListFolderResult;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.files.Metadata;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.sharing.MemberSelector;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.users.FullAccount;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.users.FullTeam;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.sharing.ShareFolderLaunch;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.sharing.SharedFolderMetadata;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.sharing.AddMember;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.team.TeamMemberInfo;
import com.dropbox.core.v2.team.TeamMemberProfile;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.Random;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;

public class DbxBMain {
private static final String ACCESS_TOKEN = "****************************************************************"; //Access Token

public static void main(String args[]) throws DbxException, IOException {
try {
// Create Dropbox client
DbxRequestConfig config = new DbxRequestConfig("Dropbox R & D");

DbxTeamClientV2 teamClient = new DbxTeamClientV2(config, ACCESS_TOKEN);

DbxClientV2 client = null;

/********************************************************************************************/
// Get current account info
System.out.println("Dropbox Account - Complete Info. : " + teamClient.team().getInfo().toStringMultiline());

/********************************************************************************************/
// Get current team info - List of team members.

List<TeamMemberInfo> team = teamClient.team().membersList().getMembers();
if(team != null) {
Iterator iter = team.iterator();
while (iter.hasNext()) {
TeamMemberInfo member = (TeamMemberInfo) iter.next();
TeamMemberProfile profile = member.getProfile();

System.out.println("\n/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/");
System.out.println("Team Member - Role : " + member.getRole().toString());
System.out.println("Team Member Info - Complete Info. : " + member.toStringMultiline());
System.out.println("/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/\n");

if(com.dropbox.core.v2.team.AdminTier.TEAM_ADMIN == member.getRole()) {
client = teamClient.asMember(profile.getTeamMemberId());
}//end if
}//end while
}//end if

/********************************************************************************************/
// Create Folder and add File
try {

String[] strMails = {"xxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx", "xxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx"};//Random E-Mail IDs - not in any Team / Group

for (int i = 0; i < strMails.length; i++) {

MemberSelector member = MemberSelector.email(strMails[i]);
System.out.println("\n/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/");
System.out.println("Email Value : " + member.getEmailValue());
System.out.println("/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/\n");

String strMemberName = member.getEmailValue().substring(0, (member.getEmailValue().indexOf("@", 1)));
System.out.println("\n/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/");
System.out.println("Member Name : " + strMemberName);
System.out.println("/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/\n");

AddMember am = new AddMember(member);
List<AddMember> members = new ArrayList<AddMember>();
members.add(am);

String strFolderName = "/DBX_Test_Folder_" + strMemberName + "_" + Integer.toString(new Random().nextInt(100));
FolderMetadata foldermetadata = client.files().createFolder(strFolderName);
System.out.println("\n/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/");

System.out.println("Sharing Folder : " + foldermetadata.getPathDisplay());
System.out.println("/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/\n");

ShareFolderLaunch sfl = client.sharing().shareFolder(foldermetadata.getPathDisplay());

// Folder sharing
System.out.println("Shared Folder ID : " + sfl.getCompleteValue().getSharedFolderId());
client.sharing().addFolderMember(sfl.getCompleteValue().getSharedFolderId(), members);
} //for

} catch (DbxException ex) {
System.err.println("Error making API call : " + ex.getMessage());
System.exit(1);
return;
}
/********************************************************************************************/

System.out.println("\n/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/");
ListFolderResult result = client.files().listFolderBuilder("").withRecursive(true).start();
while(true) {
List<Metadata> entries = result.getEntries();
for (Metadata metadata : entries) {
//if (metadata instanceof FileMetadata) {
//FileMetadata fileMetadata = (FileMetadata) metadata;
//if (metadata.getPathLower().endsWith(".csv")) {
System.out.println("Name : " + metadata.getPathLower());
System.out.println("\n/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/");
System.out.println("Metadata - Complete Info. : " + metadata.toStringMultiline());
System.out.println("/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/\n");
//}//end if
//}//end if
}//end for

if(result.getHasMore()) {
result = client.files().listFolderContinue(result.getCursor());
} else {
break; //no more entries to process
}//end if-else
}//end while

System.out.println("/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------/\n");

/********************************************************************************************/
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}//end try-catch
}//end main
}//end DbxTest

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I had set the following permissions before I got "No Permission" error :

Sharing files and folders externally - Off
Editing external folders - Off
Sharing links externally - Off
Default shared link privacy - Anyone

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After making the following changes, the code worked and folders were getting created.

Sharing files and folders externally - On
Editing external folders - On
Sharing links externally - On
Default shared link privacy - Team Only

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Thanks for following up. I'm glad to hear you were able to get this working. Yes, that previous access control setting would have prevented you from adding those other accounts, so it looks like this is working as expected.