'Provisioning' means both creating a service account and the process by which Cloud App Security is granted the ability to access other cloud applications and services.
Want to interact with the Dropbox API when a user isn’t actively interacting with the app (“offline” access) This section describes how to provision cloud applications and services such as Box, Dropbox and Google Drive.From the app homepage: With the Dropbox app for Windows 8, we can easily browse all our files, view our pictures, and watch our videos with a tap. In Windows 8, Dropbox is now available and the wait is finally over. Want long-term access regardless of whether a user is present (i.e. In this article, I will describe the official announcement of the availability of the Dropbox app for Windows 8.The following information describes how to use App Connect to connect to Dropbox. If your app only calls the Dropbox API when the user is actively interacting with the app ( online access) and follows the OAuth best practice of prompting for re-authentication on a 401 error, then your app should not not require code changes to support short live tokens. Dropbox is a file hosting service that offers free cloud-based storage.
This process will result in more re-authorization flows than before, but will have minimal impact on the end user experience. If the user has already authorized the app (and is logged into Dropbox), then a new short-lived is issued and they’re redirected to your app without any input from the user. When a user tries to access your app with an invalid token, redirect them to the authorization URL you use in your OAuth flow. You can find more information about setting up the right authorization flow for your app in the OAuth Guide.
We recommend starting with this approach during migration, then, once you’re confident in your app’s behavior, update the default access token type to short-lived in the App Console. You can programmatically issue short-lived tokens with a small adjustment to your code-including token_access_type=online in your authorization URL. Dropbox Paper launched in August 2016 and. Testing short-lived access tokens with token_access_typeīefore migrating your app to short-lived tokens, we recommend testing them in your app. We feature the best note-taking apps, to make it simple to make and use notes on the go, whether for ideas, business insights, or even reminders. If your app doesn’t properly handle 401 errors or needs to interact with the Dropbox API without user input (“offline” access), then it may require code changes. If your app handles errors with 401 status correctly and only calls the Dropbox API when users are interacting with it, then it shouldn’t need any code changes.