How to work with Team Folder?

Question

Hi everyone!

We have a global folder that all team members have access to.

I am developing an application that will perform certain functions:
- display all subfolders or search for the desired one
- create new subfolders
- renaming subfolders
- deleting subfolders
- upload files to the desired subfolders

Which APIs should I pay attention to?

I tried one API, through the generation of a token using the application keys, it gives an error. There is probably confusion in the documentation and I misunderstood the whole process.

DB-Des · Accepted Answer

Hi @alekso89

I forgot to add, since you are working with a team, by default, API calls to the Dropbox API operate in the "member folder" of the connected account, not the "team space". That means that by default, the contents of the team space will not be found.

You can configure API calls to operate in the "team space" instead though, in order to interact with files/folders in the team space. To do so, you'll need to set the "Dropbox-API-Path-Root" header. You can find information on how to use this in the Team Files Guide.

More specifically, you will want to follow the guidance provided above if you are looking to perform functions on the "GlobalTeamFolder".