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apo1397
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5 years ago

Able to poll for Shared Folders after user Adds to Dropbox but not Shared Files - Java SDK

Hi, I'm using the Java Core SDK version 3.1.3  We have a mechanism of long polling for the changes in the User's Account. Our Application doesn't have any of the scopes for teams . For a regular ...
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apo1397
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Thanks for the reply Greg-DB . I read somewhere about the Business APIs being of some help but I didn't see any API to continuously monitor "received" shared files. 
Did the documentation mean that we might get shared files in the webhook/longpoll for Dropbox Business Account or something else ?

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Are you referring to the getEvents/getEventsContinue functionality? That's a way to monitor events occurring on a Dropbox Business team. That log would include shared file events, but it can only be used by Business teams, with the 'events.read' team scope.

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