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Chooser - Default Folder

The current implementation of the chooser works well enough for personal, relatively infrequent use. However, navigating to a specific folder from root every single time you load the chooser gets irritating in a high-use / enterprise context with complex folder structures.

Please add support for a 'defaultPath' attribute in the 'options' object passed into Dropbox.choose(), which overrides the default view of recent files or the root Dropbox folder with a more relevant file path for a specific use case!

Either that or add some functionality to 'favourite' specific folders so they show up in the nav bar on the left of the chooser?

Seems like a fairly obvious feature that'd make using the chooser much better from a UX point of view!

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Greg-DB

Thanks for writing this up! I can certainly see how this would be helpful. I can't make any promises as to if/when this would be implemented, but I'm sending this along as a feature request.

BWT

Hi, we also have the exact same problem when developing our business oriented app. We need to be able to specify an optional default opening folder in the File Chooser to speed up the process for frequent users.

So if it helps please add our "vote" to this feature request.

Thanks!

Greg-DB

Thanks for the additional feedback! It is helpful.

elsigh

Another bit here - I have an app with App Folder permission only so when we open the chooser it would be nice to have it start in that folder, otherwise it's always going to go badly I think.

Greg-DB

@elsigh Thanks for the note!

divyesh

Another bit here - I have a folder structure with user's permission in my website and I want to open that specific folder as a default folder. any help will be appreciated .

Thanks

Greg-DB

@divyesh Thanks for the feedback. The Dropbox Chooser still doesn't offer this functionality, but this has been sent along as a feature request.