Dropbox Business Connector Data Sheet

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Last updated: Jan 21, 2020
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Release Notes

Dropbox Business Connector Release notes

Released Versions

  • SDK 1.5 (Locator 2.9)
  • SDK 1.6 (Locator 2.10)

Supported Versions

The latest Dropbox Business version as of September 2016. The connector is developed using the Dropbox API version 2 (https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/team). For more information about the API: Dropbox API and Security

Limitations

Only file documents are currently shown in the search. Users (members) and folders are also indexed, but it is not possible to search for these items.

For authentication, the system uses Active Directory to retrieve email addresses that are matched against the Dropbox user base. This only works if:

  • The user is part of an active directory
  • That active directory is associated with an exchange installation
  • The email used on exchange is the one used in Dropbox

This workaround is due to the fact that normal Dropbox authentication takes place through its own oAuth based authentication. 

Prerequisites

At connection install time

  • An AD User (with user name, password and AD domain) must be provided. The AD information is used in the Authentication plug in - to look up primary SMTP address in AD and link them to Dropbox users.
  • An admin Dropbox user for the team. This is used to create an access code and later in Wizard when configuring the connection converting the access code to an access token.
  • Application Key and Application Secret

At search time no action is needed - as the user will be authenticated from its AD credentials.

Supported Data Types

The connector supports indexing the following data types:

  • File
  • Team members (Dropbox users) and folders are indexed, but not searchable.

Crawl Methods

Full Crawl: The Connector supports scheduling periodic full scans of the source system.

Incremental Crawl: Not supported

DocumentHandler

Not required.


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