Unable to see custom Properties after setting them

[Daniel F]

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

[tahsini]

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.

[Daniel F]

Thanks for the feedback,

so let me ask the question a different way, what options do I have to save "custom" properties/attributes or metadata in Dropbox against a file so that end users can see those values ?

[tahsini · Accepted solution]

We have in preview API endpoints for tags on files this may work with the use case that you are looking for. Please see here (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-tags-add) for those endpoints.

[Daniel F]

Last comment, while I understand tags can help, ideally properties are key/value pairs and tags don't help with convey that information 

the key question now is "when" will dropbox enable the viewing of custom metadata properties on the properties pane like the 3 or 4 existing properties appear.

[Greg-DB]

@Daniel F The file properties functionality on the Dropbox API is meant as a way for third party apps to set and get custom information for use by the third party app itself, e.g., to show in its own UI. Dropbox doesn't expose this information in the official Dropbox UI, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though.