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Clarification on adding a member for a folder.
Hello,
the API documentation says:
Allows an owner or editor (if the ACL update policy allows) of a shared folder to add another member.
For the new member to get access to all the functionality for this folder, you will need to call mount_folder on their behalf.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#sharing-add_folder_member
If I understand correctly, we cannot add a member to a folder if it is not already shared by the user because we do not have a prior "shared_folder_id"?
Thanks.
That's correct, you can't add members to non-shared folders. The folder will need to be shared (e.g., via /2/sharing/share_folder) so that it will have a shared folder ID before you can add members.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
That's correct, you can't add members to non-shared folders. The folder will need to be shared (e.g., via /2/sharing/share_folder) so that it will have a shared folder ID before you can add members.
Thanks Greg!!
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