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23W
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

File lock feature & Properties API

This topic continues my previous question Properties API. I tried to continue conversation there but, for some reason, my comments are not published. So I decided to start new conversation.   I w...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    8 years ago

    Only team members can update the file properties on a file using one of the team's property templates. Non-team members that are members of a shared folder can view the properties for a file they have access to, but they can't update it. Note that this feature is in beta though, so it is subject to change.

     

    In any case, this wasn't designed to enable file locking exactly, so I wouldn't recommend using it for that. We'll consider this a feature request for file locking though.

     

    The Dropbox badge feature is not limited to members of the same team.

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