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Chapter 5. Connecting to Dropbox

In an integration, you can download files from Dropbox or upload files to Dropbox. The following topics provide the details:

5.1. Register Fuse Online as a Dropbox client
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You must register your Fuse Online environment as a client application that can access Dropbox. This lets you create any number of integrations that connect to Dropbox. In other words, you need to register a particular Fuse Online environment with Dropbox only once.

In each Fuse Online environment, there can be only one registration of Fuse Online as a Dropbox client application. However, while each Dropbox connection uses the same registration, it can use different user credentials.

Perform these steps:

  1. In Fuse Online:

    1. In the left panel, click Settings.
    2. On the Settings page, near the top, to the right of the callback URL, click Copy Callback URL to copy the callback URL for your installation of Fuse Online to the clipboard. You will need this URL toward the end of this procedure.

  2. In another browser tab, go to https://www.dropbox.com and do the following:

    1. Sign in to the Dropbox account that has the data that you want to access in an integration.
    2. After signing in, go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps.
    3. Click Create App.
    4. Select Dropbox API.
    5. Near the top of the page, in the sentence that starts with During registration, enter this callback URL:, paste the URL that you copied to the clipboard at the beginning of this procedure. For example, the URL that you paste is something like this: https://app-proj9128.7b63.fuse-ignite.openshiftapps.com/api/v1/credentials/callback.
    6. Choose whether Fuse Online can access a single folder or all of the folders and files.
    7. Specify a name for your Dropbox app. For example, you might specify Fuse Online Access From Aslan LLC. The name you specify must be unique in the set of Dropbox app names.
    8. Check the box to indicate that you agree to Dropbox API terms and conditions.
    9. Click Create App.
    10. In the Dropbox Settings page for your new app, in the input field for OAuth2 Redirect URIs, paste your Fuse Online URL, which you copied to the clipboard at the beginning of this procedure.
    11. Click Add.

Your Fuse Online environment is now registered as a Dropbox client, which means that Fuse Online can access content in the Dropbox account that you signed into.

5.2. Create a Dropbox connection
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A connection to Dropbox requires registration of Fuse Online as an application that can access Dropbox. If you did not already register Fuse Online, see Section 5.1, “Register Fuse Online as a Dropbox client”.

Follow the instructions below to create a Dropbox connection. You can use the same Dropbox connection in multiple integrations.

To create a Dropbox connection:

  1. In a new browser tab, go to https://www.dropbox.com and do the following:

    1. Sign in to the Dropbox account in which you created the app that registers access from your Fuse Online installation.
    2. Go to https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps.
    3. Click the Fuse Online app to display its settings.

  2. In another browser tab, in Fuse Online, do the following:

    1. In the left panel, click Connections to display any available connections.
    2. In the upper right, click Create Connection to display the available connectors.
    3. Click the Dropbox connector.

  3. Go back to the Dropbox settings display for your app and do the following:

    1. Scroll down to see Generated Access Token.
    2. Click Generate.
    3. Copy the generated access token to the clipboard.
  4. Back in Fuse Online, in the Configure Connection page, in the Access Token field, paste the generated access token.
  5. In the Client Identifier field, enter the name that you specified when you created the Dropbox app.
  6. Click Validate. Fuse Online displays a message that indicates whether it can validate this connection. If validation fails, try again and be sure to enter the correct values.
  7. When validation is successful, in the upper right, click Next.
  8. In the Connection Name field, enter your choice of a name that helps you distinguish this connection from any other connections. For example, enter Dropbox Connect 1.
  9. In the Description field, optionally enter any information that is helpful to know about this connection. For example, enter Sample Dropbox connection that can access all content in our company Dropbox account.
  10. In the upper right, click Create to see that the connection you created is now available. If you entered the example name, you would see that Dropbox Connect 1 appears as a connection that you can choose to add to an integration.

5.3. Add a Dropbox connection to an integration
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You must create a Dropbox connection before you can add a Dropbox connection to an integration. If you did not already create a Dropbox connection, see Section 5.2, “Create a Dropbox connection”.

You must be creating an integration or updating an integration to add a connection to that integration. If you need to, see the general procedure for creating an integration. or see updating integrations.

The procedure for adding a Dropbox connection to an integration varies according to whether you want to use the connection to start an integration, finish an integration, or access Dropbox in the middle of an integration. See the following topics:

To start an integration by downloading files from Dropbox, add a Dropbox connection as the start connection:

  1. In the Fuse Online panel on the left, click Integrations.
  2. Click Create Integration.
  3. On the Choose a Start Connection page, click the Dropbox connection that you want to use to start the integration.
  4. On the Choose an Action page, click the Download action to obtain one or more files from the Dropbox account that this connection accesses.
  5. To configure the action, in the Folder or file name path to download field, specify the filename path for the content that you want the integration to obtain. In this release, you can download only a single file.
  6. Click Next to specify the action’s output type. See Specifying connection action input and output types.

To finish an integration by uploading files to Dropbox, add a Dropbox connection as the finish connection:

  1. Start creating the integration, add and configure the start connection.
  2. On the Choose a Finish Connection page, click the Dropbox connection that you want to use to finish the integration.
  3. On the Choose an Action page, click the Upload action to add the current integration data to the Dropbox account that this connection accesses.
  4. In the Remote Path field, enter the local filename path for file that you want to upload. Dropbox stores the file with the same path and name. In this release, you can upload only a single file.

  5. For the Upload mode,

    • Select Add to upload a file only when a file with the same name is not already in the same Dropbox folder. If a file with the same name is already in the same Dropbox folder, then the file is not uploaded and the integration continues. This is the behavior regardless of whether the content in the file you are trying to upload has been updated.
    • Select Force to ensure that the file is uploaded even if a file with the same name is present in the same Dropbox folder. Dropbox overwrites the file that it already has with the file that you are uploading.
  6. Click Next to specify the action’s input type. See Specifying connection action input and output types.

To upload a file to Dropbox in the middle of an integration, add a Dropbox connection between the start and finish connections. You must be creating or editing an integration. You must add the start and finish connections first. Follow these instructions:

  1. In the integration visualization panel on the left, hover over the plus sign that is in the location where you want to add a Dropbox connection.
  2. In the popup, click Add a connection.
  3. On the Choose a Connection page, click the Dropbox connection that you want the integration to use.

  4. On the Choose an Action page, click Upload to add the current integration data to the Dropbox account that this connection accesses. To configure this action:

    1. In the Remote Path field, specify the local path and file name of the file you want to upload. Dropbox stores the file with the same path and name. In this release, you can upload only a single file.

    2. For the Upload mode,

      • Select Add to upload a file only when a file with the same name is not already in the same Dropbox folder. If a file with the same name is already in the same Dropbox folder, then the file is not uploaded and the integration continues. This is the behavior regardless of whether the content in the file you are trying to upload has been updated.
      • Select Force to ensure that the file is uploaded even if a file with the same name is present in the same Dropbox folder. Dropbox overwrites the file that it already has with the file that you are uploading.
  5. Click Next to specify the action’s input and output type. See Specifying connection action input and output types.
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