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Production Approval for a very small amount of users
Our team uses Dropbox to share files. We are a small company and we have recently developed an internal tool to help associate some additional data with our files on Dropbox. We're going through the testing with it and it's working as intended.
But as I'm reading through the documentation on production approval for our app, it says that "While you may submit your request for production status anytime, it will not be reviewed until your app has linked with at least 50 Dropbox users, indicating that it will likely require production status."
Our company has less than 50 people and so we will not have that many users; however, we want production approval because without it, our access tokens are short lived. The quote above suggests that since we will have less than 50 users, then we do not need to apply for production status.
This is the documentation page where I pulled the quote above from.
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/developer-guide
Does this mean that since we will not have that many users, we cannot apply for production status? Thanks.
If you will not need to link more than 50 users to your app, you do not need to apply for production.
Note that the "development" versus "production" status of your app does not affect the expiration of access tokens for your app. Regardless of the status of your app, you can currently use either short-lived or long-lived access tokens. Long-lived access tokens are deprecated though. Please refer to the OAuth Guide and this blog post for more information.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
If you will not need to link more than 50 users to your app, you do not need to apply for production.
Note that the "development" versus "production" status of your app does not affect the expiration of access tokens for your app. Regardless of the status of your app, you can currently use either short-lived or long-lived access tokens. Long-lived access tokens are deprecated though. Please refer to the OAuth Guide and this blog post for more information.
Got it. Thanks for the thorough reply!
Regards,
Rob
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