Create Folders via API

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ghm101

• January 12, 2017 09:18

Hi, I want to create folders via the API that are visible to all users within my Organisation.

 

 

I have been able to create folders using an "app user" (via JWT), but these folders are not visible to normal users.

 

I think I need to

1. Create an "All Users" group - containing all users.

2. Add that group as a collaborator to all folders created via the App Users

Or should I be creating this in another  way\user or with different permissions?

 

Thanks,

Greg

 

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  Murtza

  • January 12, 2017 18:19

   That sounds like a good approach. The other option would be to create the folders with a Service Account instead of an App User.

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  ghm101

  • January 13, 2017 00:49

  Thanks  I had a look at service accounts and the instructions for creating them seem unclear.
  
  So I gave been trying to add a group to an App User Created Folder and am getting 403 errors for insufficent permissions.

   

  error="insufficient_scope", error_description="The request requires higher privileges than provided by the access token."

   

  I have seen some posts on correcting this but not found the definitive solution as yet, if someone could point me in the correct direction that would be great

   

   

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  kendomen

  • January 17, 2017 07:53

  https://community.box.com/t5/Developer-Forum/Service-Accounts-how-to-create-one-and-how-to-use-it-through-NET/m-p/27175#U27175

   

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  Tom Dawahare

  • March 22, 2022 17:17

  I know I am late to the party here.

  You do not really need to do this as written above. If you manually create a single folder that is publicly available or visible to all users, any folders you POST inside that folder using the API call will adopt the setting of the parent folder.

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