

Team folders automatically appear inside individual member’s home directories.Team Folders can be created with /team/team_folder/create and their membership managed with the sharing endpoints as described above.There are some differences between the two team models: Team Folders If has_team_shared_dropbox resolves to True, then you’re using Dropbox team space!

You can determine which type of account you’re on by checking visually (purple folder in your home directory means you’re on team space): Which type is available depends on your account. There are two types of managed team folders: Team Folders or Team Space. The Dropbox Business APIs & headers will let you manage these team shares similar to standard user shares. The ‘Field_Research’ folder may be read only for students for assignments, but the nested ‘Lab Reports Spring 2020’ be read-write for students to submit work. This enables you to take a folder structure like ‘/Field_Research/Lab Reports Spring 2020’ – and give the ‘Field_Research’ folder a different set of policies than the nested ‘Lab Reports Spring 2020’ folder.

When members are added to a group, the new member has access to that group’s existing shares. Within the team folder, you can create additional nested shares to add or remove additional users. Team folders allow the administrator to create folders and share with a group. While organizing your courses this semester, you learned that Dropbox Business has team folders.
