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Aristide's avatar
Aristide
Helpful | Level 7
3 years ago

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 funct...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    3 years ago

    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.

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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

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.

  • Aristide's avatar
    Aristide
    Helpful | Level 7
    3 years ago

    Thanks Greg!!

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