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I am surrently using:

Private Shared Sub FileUploadToDropbox(ByVal filePath As String, ByVal fileName As String, ByVal fileSource As String)
        Dim dbx = New DropboxClient("<REDACTED>")
        Dim fs = New FileStream(fileSource, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
        Dim updated = dbx.Files.UploadAsync((filePath + ("/" + fileName)), WriteMode.Overwrite.Instance, body:=fs)

End Sub

To upload a folder and file.

How can I then share this folder with a specific email addres, I wish to then notifiy that email address that a share has been created for them.

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Greg-DB

To share a folder with a specific Dropbox account using the .NET SDK, you should use ShareFolder to share the folder (once per folder), and then AddFolderMember to invite member(s) to the folder.

By the way, I redacted it from your post, but for the sake of security, you should disable the access token that you posted. You can do so by revoking access to the app entirely, if the access token is for your account, here, or, you can disable just this access token using the API, e.g., using TokenRevoke.

solsupp

How do I add a member

members As IEnumerable(Of AddMember),

Greg-DB

That would look something like this:

var members = new[] { new AddMember(new MemberSelector.Email("email@example.com")) };
await this.client.Sharing.AddFolderMemberAsync(sharedFolderId, members);

solsupp

Dim myMembers = New AddMember(New MemberSelector.Email("EMAILADDERESS"), Nothing)
dbx.Sharing.AddFolderMemberAsync((filePath + ("/" + fileName)), myMembers, False, "Docs UPloaded")

Seem to get an error, not sure what to do here:

Error BC30512 Option Strict On disallows implicit conversions from 'AddMember' to 'IEnumerable(Of AddMember)'.

Even casting to 'IEnumerable(Of AddMember)' causes error

Can you help

Greg-DB

The 'members' parameter does require a IEnumerable<AddMember>, but it appears you're only supplying a AddMember, not in an IEnumerable.

I'm not a Visual Basic expert, but I believe you can build it like this:

Dim myMembers() as AddMember = {New AddMember(New MemberSelector.Email(emailAddress), Nothing)}

solsupp

Thanks for that, apologies, I am a newby here, 1 more question, how do I get a folderID, can I quierie it based on folder name?

 

Greg-DB

You can get the shared folder ID from SharedFolderMetadata.SharedFolderId (e.g., from a completed ShareFolder job, or elsewhere, such as from ListFolders/ListFoldersContinue) or from FolderSharingInfo.SharedFolderId in FolderMetadata.SharingInfo (e.g., from ListFolder/ListFolderContinue or GetMetadata).

solsupp

Are there any examples in the API, have googled this, but not sure how to apply this to code.

Just want FolderID based on folder name if possible.

   Dim link = dbx.Sharing.GetFolderMetadataAsync((filePath + ("/" + fileName)))
        Dim myMembers() As AddMember = {New AddMember(New MemberSelector.Email("EMAILADDRESS"), Nothing)}
        dbx.Sharing.AddFolderMemberAsync(link.Id.ToString, myMembers, False, "Docs Uploaded")

Get error:

System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Value should match pattern '\A(?:[-_0-9a-zA-Z:]+)\z'

Greg-DB

In this code, you're just using 'Id'. You need the 'SharedFolderId'. In your code, that should be something like:

link.SharingInfo.SharedFolderId

solsupp

link.SharingInfo.SharedFolderId not available in LINK, only have link.id available

Dim link = dbx.Files.ListFolderAsync(filePath + ("/" + fileName)) - Is this correct

I am worndering if I am going about this the wrong way, What if I have no sharing on a folder?

I want to share the above folder, if its not shared, will sharedfolderID be null.

solsupp

Have also tried:

Dim slm = dbx.Files.GetMetadataAsync((filePath))
                    MsgBox(slm.Result.ParentSharedFolderId)

Returns nothing

Greg-DB

Apologies, I believe I misread your code.

The SharedFolderId field is only available on folders that are shared. I see that you were actually calling GetMetadata (as far as I can tell, from the variable names you're using), so that won't be available. You should call that on the folder itself to get that instead. I.e., to get a FolderMetadata object.

If you call GetMetadata for a file, you will get a FileMetadata object. If the file is in a shared folder, you can get the parent shared folder ID, i.e., the shared folder ID for the shared folder the file is contained in, from FileSharingInfo.ParentSharedFolderId in FileMetadata.SharingInfo.

And that's correct, if the folder is not yet shared, it won't have a shared folder ID. You should call ShareFolder as discussed earlier to share a folder.

solsupp

Still not sure what to do here, I have searched the forum, googled it, but cant find any examples of useage anywhere?

Do you have an example of sharing a folder - Event if its in c#, I can convert it. The function exmaple seems to do nothing.

    Public Function ShareFolderAsync(
    path As String,
    Optional aclUpdatePolicy As AclUpdatePolicy = Nothing,
    Optional forceAsync As Boolean = False,
    Optional memberPolicy As MemberPolicy = Nothing,
    Optional sharedLinkPolicy As SharedLinkPolicy = Nothing,
    Optional viewerInfoPolicy As ViewerInfoPolicy = Nothing,
    Optional actions As IEnumerable(Of FolderAction) = Nothing,
    Optional linkSettings As LinkSettings = Nothing
) As Task(Of ShareFolderLaunch)

    End Function

ShareFolderAsync(filePath, Nothing, True, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing) - Folder doesn't get shared.

solsupp

got it with

dbx.Sharing.ShareFolderAsync(filePath)

all working now