Dropbox Business - Get folder contents

The Dropbox Business - Get folder contentsaction A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process. retrieves information about the contents in a specified folder in a selected Dropbox Business account.

You can store the names, path, and folder status for each item in the folder and use them in other actions throughout your workflow.

For more information about the Dropbox Business connector, see Dropbox Business.

Configure the Dropbox Business - Get folder contents action

1. Add the action to the workflow and open the action configuration panel. For more information, see Add an action to the workflow.

2. Select a Connection. If you do not have a connection, see Add a connection.
3. Drag the Dropbox Business - Get folder contents action to the point in the workflow when you want to retrieve contents of a folder.
4. Select a Member ID.
5. Type the Path to the folder you want to get the contents from or click the browse icon () to browse the folder structure and select the path.

Note: A Connection and Member ID must be selected for the Path field to become configurable.

Dropbox Business - Get folder contents action fields, buttons, and settings

Caution: If a file/folder that's used in a workflow is moved, renamed, or deleted, any workflows that use that file/folder will not start or will fail. Make sure you keep the paths in your workflow configurations up to date.

Section	Field	Description	Variable types
(unlabeled)	Connection Credentials and other settings that enables workflows to communicate with external systems, services, or applications. It's required to pass data between the workflow and the indicated service, which could be a cloud service, business application, or content store.	The Dropbox Business connection to use for getting folder content.	(n/a)
	Member ID	The ID of the Dropbox Business team member. All the active members in the Dropbox Business account will be listed in the drop down to select from.	Boolean, Collection, DateTime, Decimal, Integer, Text
	Path	The path to the folder in Dropbox Business the workflow retrieves information from.	Boolean, DateTime, Decimal, Integer, Text
Output	Result	Stores the result of the action as an object with the following variables: Name: (Collection) The names of the items in the folder. Path: ( Collection) The paths of items in the folder. Is folder: (Collection) The folder status of items in the folder. For example, if the selected folder has one folder and one file in it the action will return values of Yes for the folder and No for the file. Modified date: (Collection) The date the items in the folder was last modified.	Object A variable that groups several related variables of multiple variable types into a hierarchical structure. Objects can contain other Objects.