Child Item

link to a folder

I am working on using Dropbox Business integrated with a corporate application. When we share a folder with a member of staff, I need to provide a link to the folder that will work, even if they rename or move the folder. Is this possible?

The folders are inside a team folder, and are shared only with members of staff - a general share via URL would be counter-productive here as it could potentially expose commercially senstive information.

Is this possible?

Find more posts tagged with

API

Abuse

Comments

Mark

*moves to API forum*

Greg-DB

We don't offer a way to "deep link" to any particular file or folder, while accomodating for different folder structures across accounts, but I'll be sure to pass this along as a feature request.

You can programmatically create a shared link while still enforcing "team only" access control though. To do so, you'd use /2/sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings and set settings.requested_visibility.team_only:

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

Simon_C

I'm not sure that's exactly what I need though - I need to be able to lock the permissions down to a single Dropbox group - if it opens it up to the whole organisation then that's much too wide for the purposes for which I need it.

Greg-DB

Hi Simon, thanks for clarifying. I just took a closer look at this and I believe the SharedFolderMetadata.preview_url will actually work the way you want in this case. (Apologies I didn't think of that in my earlier reply.)

That is, you can call /2/sharing/list_folders[/continue] to list the shared folders in an account, or /2/sharing/get_folder_metadata to get a specific one, and get the returned SharedFolderMetadata.preview_url for the desired folder. That link will actually properly resolve for any member of the shared folder, e.g., even if they moved the shared folder in their own account.

Likewise the same metadata/link is available when you share a new folder using /2/sharing/share_folder and check on the operation using /2/sharing/check_share_job_status, or when modifying an existing shared folder using /2/sharing/update_folder_policy.

Also, you can share a shared folder with a specific group using /2/sharing/add_folder_member.

Hope this helps!