Trouble with link and setting expiry date

Paul M.131

I am creating a .NET app and all is working well so far with v2.1.  I can share a link, but if try to add an expiry date for the link it fails at the "CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsAsync" method, with a "settings_error/not_authorized/.." error!

 

I have read the .NET documentation, and searched the forums, but cannot get this working.

This is my code:

Dropbox.Api.Sharing.CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsArg shArgs = null;

 

//set the expiry date

Dropbox.Api.Sharing.SharedLinkSettings shSett = new Dropbox.Api.Sharing.SharedLinkSettings(null, null, DateTime.Today.AddDays(1));

var file = (FileMetadata)listView1.SelectedItems[0].Tag;

 

//The code work if I replace the 'shSett' variable with 'null' in this line of code

shArgs = new Dropbox.Api.Sharing.CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsArg(file.PathDisplay, shSett);

 

//this is the line where the error occurs

var result = await client.Sharing.CreateSharedLinkWithSettingsAsync(shArgs);

 

Any help appreciated.  Hopefully I have provided enough information.

 

Paul

 

 

Greg-DB

Hi Paul, you can find more information on this error in the documentation here:

https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_Sharing_SharedLinkSettingsError_NotAuthorized.htm

In this case, it looks like the issue is that you're trying to set an expiration on a link using an account that doesn't have access to that feature.