Cloudability SaaS Connect Dropbox to Cloudability SaaS
What data is used by Cloudability SaaS from Dropbox?
Dropbox is integrated with Cloudability SaaS using the Dropbox API.
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation .
Cloudability SaaS uses user and expense data from the Dropbox API. The data is analyzed and displayed as useful insights in Cloudability SaaS .
The list of fields that are retrieved by the connector can be quite long and detailed. It's therefore in a drop-down so that it's easier to read through this intro if you're not wanting the detail:
View the data fields that are used by Cloudability SaaS from DropboxCloudability SaaS uses six API calls to retrieve data from Dropbox.
users/get_current_account
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#users-get_current_account
The following retrieved fields are used by Cloudability SaaS :
account_id
name
given_name
surname
familiar_name
display_name
abbreviated_name
email_verified
disabled
locale
referral_link
is_paired
account_type
country
team
id
name
sharing_policies
shared_folder_member_policy
shared_folder_join_policy
shared_link_create_policy
office_addin_policy
team_member_id
team_log/get_events
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#team_log-get_events
The following retrieved fields are used by Cloudability SaaS :
events
timestamp
event_type
tag
description
details
shared_content_download_details
shared_content_link
shared_content_access_level
shared_content_owner.tag
shared_content_owner.account_id
shared_content_owner.email
actor
actor.user (tag, account_id, display_name, email)
involve_non_team_member (context)
account_id
display_name
team_member_id
member_external_id
team.display_name
cursor
has_more
team_log/get_events/continue
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#team_log-get_events-continue
The following retrieved fields are used by Cloudability SaaS :
events
timestamp
event_type
tag
description
details
shared_content_download_details
shared_content_link
shared_content_access_level
shared_content_owner.tag
shared_content_owner.account_id
shared_content_owner.email
actor
actor.user ( tag , account_id , display_name , email )
involve_non_team_member ( context )
account_id
display_name
team_member_id
member_external_id
team.display_name
cursor
has_more
groups/members/list
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#team-groups-members-list
The following retrieved fields are used by Cloudability SaaS :
members
cursor
has_more
data point
team_member_id
email_verified
status
name
membership_type
external_id
account_id
joined_on
groups/members/list/continue
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/teams#team-groups-members-list-continue
The following retrieved fields are used by Cloudability SaaS :
members
cursor
has_more
data point
team_member_id
email_verified
status
name
membership_type
external_id
account_id
joined_on
oauth2/token
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation
The following retrieved fields are used by Cloudability SaaS :
access_token
token_type
scope
account_id
Calculated fields
Last login date
The last login date is set for a user based on the timestamp value returned from the team_log-get_events and team_log-get_events-continue API calls
If there is information under the actor in the response then the timestamp value is set as the last login date for that user.
If there is no information under actor then the user is identified by the email address value within details if the response. The timestamp value is set as the last login date for that the associated user
If there are no events related to a user then the date is set to null.
Activity status
The last login date is used to determine when the user was last active; see Last login date .
If there is no last login date, then the user is marked as inactive.
Purchased license count
This value is set manually.
Used license count
The used license count is based on the number of users found.
Connect to Dropbox
Before you start
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Before you can integrate Dropbox with Cloudability SaaS , you must have the following:
An Administrator account on, at a minimum, a Standard Business account subscription.
For more information, refer to https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison.
The account must have Team admin or Security admin rights.
For more information, refer to https://help.dropbox.com/teams-admins/admin/change-admin-rights .
Steps to connect
Connect Dropbox to Cloudability SaaS .
Find the Dropbox tile and select Connect .
Login to Dropbox.
Select Continue .
Complete the steps in the License Wizard to add your Dropbox license to Cloudability SaaS .
Confirm success
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Confirm that Dropbox has been integrated with Cloudability SaaS correctly.
Confirm that the Cloudability SaaS Dashboard displays the Dropbox tile under Your Connected Applications .
Select the Dropbox tile and confirm that data from Dropbox can be viewed in the application details page.
Compare the data in Dropbox to data in Cloudability SaaS to confirm success.
Log into Dropbox.
Navigate to your team directory. Refer to https://help.dropbox.com/files-folders/share/team-directory for more information.
Use the list of Members to compare to the list of users that are in the Cloudability SaaS connected application.
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