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Saver API - Include link on success callback

Is it possible for the url to the uploaded file(s) to be captured in someway using the saver API.

The desired workflow in my application is
1) User generates a new document within my app
2) Saver UI launches (with a default filename set using data-filename)
3) User clicks save on Saver API
4) My app launches the preview of the saved file in Dropbox in a new tab.

Is there any way to achieve this?

Theoretically, I can open a page which matches the expected filename like: https://www.dropbox.com/home/some-folder?preview=my-doc.docx

But this would fail if the user selects a different folder in the Saver UI. I'm also not sure if that URL is stable as the equivalent link created from 'Copy Link' in the Dropbox UI is quite different.

IMHO - ideally an object containing information about the downloaded files would be passes to the success callback.

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Greg-DB

No, unfortunately there isn't a way to have the Dropbox Saver return the file metadata or link like this, or other way to directly identify the saved file(s), but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.