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nsalex
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3 months ago

Unable to share folders since migration to updated team space

Back in June, our Dropbox Business account was migrated to the Updated Team Space system. We have a custom application that manages automatically uploading files and sharing folders with our customer...
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    DB-Des
    3 months ago

    Hi nsalex,

     

    Since you are using the rootNamespaceId, we recommend using { '.tag': 'root', 'root': rootNamespaceId } instead of { '.tag': 'namespace_id', namespace_id: rootNamespaceId } in your request. This aligns with the naming structure and value expected by the API, thus ensuring correct functionality.

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DB-Des
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3 months ago

Hi nsalex,

 

Since you are using the rootNamespaceId, we recommend using { '.tag': 'root', 'root': rootNamespaceId } instead of { '.tag': 'namespace_id', namespace_id: rootNamespaceId } in your request. This aligns with the naming structure and value expected by the API, thus ensuring correct functionality.

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    nsalex
    New member | Level 2
    3 months ago

    Thank you! Unlike the "files/upload" endpoint, the namespace_id and root tags behave differently for the root namespace in the "sharing/share_folder" endpoint. This is now working.

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