Trying to make all files uploaded into an item be automatically moved to a specific-to-the-item dropbox folder

I want to do this, and have some thought on how to do it (not familiar still with Podio's API so I welcome any input you guys can give me. I guess most of my solutions won't be possible, however, I hope at least one is, or that you can tell me a better way to proceed).

a) Get a trigger when a file is dropped on an item, caught the file, and re-route it though my in-the-cloud-app which already talks to dropbox very well.

b) Define a dropbox-like service that can be selected in each item the same way you select your dropbox account to upload files (this would be the most desired solution since there would not be a 100MB limit in the file size)

Thank you,

Juan

August 20, 2013 16:33

Also wanted to know if its possible to directly access dropbox from Podio's API. Since that way I can find a way to tell Podio to download the file directly into the dropbox folder.

Thanks again

Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen

August 20, 2013 22:07

You can use webhooks to be notified when files on items change: https://developers.podio.com/examples/webhooks

You cannot add your own file provider via the API

You can work with external files through the API. In PodioAPI terms the providers are called linked accounts. Relevant links: https://developers.podio.com/doc/linked-accounts (for getting the linked_account_ids you need) and https://developers.podio.com/doc/files has operations you can perform on files from linked accounts

All the best,

Andreas

Trying to make all files uploaded into an item be automatically moved to a specific-to-the-item dropbox folder

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