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The Dropbox search integration lets you search for Dropbox content directly from your web or mobile Experience's search bar. 

After the integration is enabled, connect your Dropbox account and search for files you already have permission to access from the search bar, or by accessing the application icon in Shortcuts. 

User Access

Connect Dropbox Account

To directly search for Dropbox files, first you need to connect your Dropbox account to your member experience. 

1. Begin by finding the Dropbox application from your Shortcuts bar or Assistant.
2. Select the Dropbox icon.
3. Select Connect Account, then Connect.
4. You can now search for Dropbox files from your web or mobile experience.

Sign Into Dropbox Account

When searching for the first time, you'll be prompted to sign into your Dropbox account:

User Experience

Once connected, you can search for Dropbox files directly in your web or mobile experience search bar. Filter your search by Dropbox to limit the returned results. 

The following example shows a search for the file name "summit". Dropbox has been selected as the search filter, limiting the results to only files containing "summit" from the user's Dropbox account.

FAQ

What fields will search look across? (title, description, body, tags etc?)

The integration looks across all of the users dropbox folders and search by the body of the files & its metadata (title, description etc)

User permissions requested: account_info.read , files.metadata.read , files.content.read

What type of content is returned via search?

Our search returns any Dropbox document that you have access to (whether created by the user or shared with the user).

What order are the results returned?

The results are ordered according to relevance determined by Dropbox. More info Search Files Using the Dropbox API