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767 TopicsFeedback: The Embedder Launched in Preview
New feature alert! Dropbox is previewing a new pre-built component called the File and Folder Embedder. Simply paste a JavaScript snippet into your code and youāve added the ability to turn Dropbox shared links into interactive, embedded previews. Itās never been easier to provide your users with the ability to view and interact directly with their Dropbox files and folders. You can read more about the Embedder on our developer blog or the Embedder documentation. We want your feedback! While in the Preview phase, weāre actively adding enhancements, new controls, and new supported filetypes to the Embedder. What features would you like to see? How do your users interact with their Dropbox files from your app? Please post your thoughts or ideas about the Embedder below. Willing to give us more direct feedback? This April, weāre offering a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card for folks that fill out this survey. Completing the survey counts as your entry into the sweepstakes*. Legal disclaimer: Navigating to the survey in this forum post will direct you to our Qualtrics survey website. All information you enter will be treated in accordance with the Dropbox Privacy Policy. Dropbox will never ask you for your password or billing information via invitations to surveys or in surveys themselves. *NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW. Ends April 30, 2020 at 9:00pm Pacific Time. Must be 18+, have reached the age of majority in state of residence, and be a legal resident of the U.S. Sponsor: Dropbox, Inc. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries received. Click here for complete rules.15KViews12likes39CommentsNew Dropbox Developer Evangelist saying hello
How much does a polar bear weigh? ⦠enough to break the ice. Iām Taylor. Iām a new Developer Evangelist at Dropbox. Besides making bad jokes, Iām here to help you build with the Dropbox API. Iāll be working alongside Greg, Dropbox Developer Advocate, in the forums. Need help building an OAuth flow or implementing webhooks? Maybe youāre struggling with a race condition in your code? Itās all fair game. If thereās anything we can do to empower you to work with the Dropbox API, then please donāt hesitate to ask. We have two sections of the developer forums: one is for general discussion, the other is for technical API support. If you want to brainstorm use cases or come up with ideas for your next big application, post about those in the general discussion section. If youāre stuck on a specific problem building your integration, head to our support section. Either way, Greg and I will be there to help! A bit about my personal life: Iām based out of Seattle, Washington and spend most of my free time trying to teach my daughter to prank my wife (because 2.5 is a little too young for snowboarding). I grew up in Colorado and am into most outdoor activities. I love to travel! I enjoy microbrews, single malt scotch, coffee, and Thai food. Professionally, my background is a bit eclectic. Iāve managed operations for a traditional Japanese bladesmith as well as worked in marketing for a wealth management company. Iāve spent the past two years working in Developer Relations for Smartsheet. I enjoy coding, writing, and public speaking. My favorite programming languages are JavaScript (Node.js and TypeScript to be specific) and Python. As I mentioned earlier, Iām here to help you succeed with the Dropbox API. I need your input in order to accomplish that. Ask questions! Give feedback! Tell me about an endpoint that youāve been struggling with and why. I may not have the answer, but I can guarantee Iāll do everything in my power to get you the resources you need to effectively build using the Dropbox API. Dad jokes are heavily encouraged.1.6KViews5likes0CommentsHow to programmatically make files available offline.
I have a Macintosh app that does not use the Dropbox api - however, my users do save the appās data files & packages in a Dropbox folder. The problem is that recently users have been having file packages saved as āAvailable online-onlyā which causes huge and unexpected problems and the solution is to switch the file to āavailable offline.ā My question is: Rather than walking my users through the Finder to switch the file package to āavailable offlineā is there something I can do in my app (perhaps via NSFileManager) to change the file to āavailable offline.ā Thanks for your thoughts on this.2.7KViews3likes9CommentsHow can I set permissions to access team info for my app?
I want to integrate my app to Dropbox. I want my app to access client's dropbox account and upload and download files, and so on. My clients are possibly personal and team both. So I made My app on Dropbox app console, and tried to attach permission to team(business account) access, but I could not and Error message show "User apps cannot request team scopes." . I cannot understand "User apps" means... How can I solve it?Solved2.5KViews3likes5CommentsFile Requests API (or Zapier Integration)?
I am looking for a way to automate the File Requests process. I currently have a Zapier Zap (Action) set up that creates a folder with my required parameters, and I have even see where I can set that folder to have a shared link. What I would LIKE to do is have an Action where upon folder creation, there is an option to Send File Request which should allow the build-request process to run using data from the Trigger app. Alternatively, ANY way to automate this process would be nice. Looking for ideas. Thanks.8.3KViews3likes11Commentsfiles/list_folder API returns no entries after using new Shared Links
With the new Shared Links released recently I am now getting an empty list of files available at the Shared Link URL. I am calling the `files/list_folder` API endpoint with the `shared_link` specified as a URL (per https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-list_folder ). Previously, the `entries` returned would have the list of files available at the shared link. Now I just get an empty array. I have confirmed the files are there, and have created new Share Links on folders I previously shared without issue, and they are now broken. Can you please either fix this issue or inform me how I am supposed to view the contents of these Shared Links now?Solved5.1KViews2likes21CommentsNeed Permanant Access token for drop box
Hi All, Good day...!!! I'm Nitish Kumar from India. I'm a software engineer. Currently, I'm working on one of the projects using node js where I'm using dropbox API with the access token. everything was working fine but after a while, the access token is getting expired. I need a way to get the permanent access token so, I do not require manual intervention every time. So, the team can you please help me with the same? thank you! Thanks and regards, Nitish Kumar <contact information redacted>Solved7.3KViews2likes12CommentsPartial file update
Hello, Is there some available way to update (not entire upload) a file? Let's assume some 100MB file and has to be updated only 1kB starting on positon 1MB. Is there a convenient way this to be done without need to download entire file, update it locally, and finally upload it back? I can't find such in API documentation. Currently, that's a complete resources lost (both time and traffic), especially if some small part of a big file have to be updated relatively often! Thanks.1.4KViews2likes6CommentsHelp shape the future of Dropbox webhooks
Hello Developer Community! Weāve got some exciting news ā our product team is scoping out upgrades to Dropbox webhooks and they want to hear from you. What changes do you want to see to webhooks? Do you have a use case that could benefit from additional functionality built into Dropbox webhooks? Letās talk about it. All ideas and questions are welcome. This is your chance to have a voice in how the Dropbox webhooks update takes shape.2.4KViews2likes1CommentEvents of event_type file_edit don't appear in /team_log/get_events API response
I have Business Plus Plan with this API available. I uploaded multiple docx files and edited some of them saw the event in dropbox.com/events area. But, when I try to get same event with event_type file_edit using mentioned API, it doesn't appear in the response. Other events, like file_add event_type do appear. Regards, Evgeniy