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Daniel F's avatar
Daniel F
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Unable to see custom Properties after setting them

Hi I  need to some to figure this out,

 

I cant seem to see the properties that i 've set on a document I uploaded

(I've got the following DONE - Basic Account setup, Scoped App setup, refresh tokens saved, custom template created, got the id)

Using both of the following methods - API Explorer and Python SDK - I've run 2/file_properties/properties/add on the file and it does not report any error ( as expected). 

 

Now, I don't know where I can go to see the Properties I've just set on the document. I tried to browse the file in the web UI but all i see are the built in properties like - Saved In, Modified, Type

 

Please point out what I can do to fix this. My requirement is that I need to be able to upload files / folders and assign custom templates and custom properties to those files.

 

Daniel

 

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  • tahsini's avatar
    tahsini
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    3 years ago

    File properties that are set are not viewable on the Dropbox UI, they can however be accessed by doing a metadata call on the file itself. By calling files/get_metadata and setting include_property_groups to a valid list of template_ids you it will return the properties you have set for the provided template_ids.

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