Clarification on adding a member for a folder.

Question

Hello,

the API documentation says:

Allows an owner or editor (if the ACL update policy allows) of a shared folder to add another member.
For the new member to get access to all the functionality for this folder, you will need to call mount_folder on their behalf.

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-add_folder_member

If I understand correctly, we cannot add a member to a folder if it is not already shared by the user because we do not have a prior "shared_folder_id"?

Thanks.

Greg-DB · Accepted Answer

That's correct, you can't add members to non-shared folders. The folder will need to be shared (e.g., via /2/sharing/share_folder) so that it will have a shared folder ID before you can add members.