Authentication :: User Account [OAuth]
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Instructions
To use OAuth authentication, firstly, you need to create OAuth application:
- Log into your DropBox account.
- Go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps.
- Press Create app button to create a new app.
- Once a new page opens, select Scoped access option.
- Next, select Full Dropbox to access all files and folders or App folder to access specific folder's files and folders option
- Give your app a name
- Click create app
- Once a new page opens, click Scoped App in Permission type line to select application scopes.
- Select all Individual Scopes and Team Scopes if you want to manage team data. Click Submit button.
- Select Settings tab, scroll down to App key and App secret and copy paste them into Notepad.
- Then in OAuth 2 section add a URL as Redirect URI. If you don't have a working Redirect URI, you may add https://zappysys.com/oauth as Redirect URI
Use App key and App secret and Redirect URI for use in Connection String when connecting or in UI.
NOTE: If you are planning to use your current data connection/token for automated processes, we recommend that you use a generic account for token generation when the login box appears (e.g. sales_automation@mycompany.com instead of bob_smith@mycompany.com). When you use a personal account which is tied to a specific employee profile and that employee leaves the company, the token may become invalid and any automated processes using that token will fail. Another potentially unwanted effect of using a personal token is incorrect logging; the API calls (e.g. Read, Edit, Delete, Upload) made with that token will record the specific user as performing the calls instead of an automated process.