Dropbox external content connector

The Dropbox external content connector retrieves files from user folders and team folders in your Dropbox source system and makes their content and metadata searchable in AI Search applications.

Connector administrators can run or schedule content crawls to retrieve updated content and access permissions from your source system, or user permission crawls to retrieve updated security principals from your source system. Both types of crawl feed their data to AI Search for indexing.

The indexed content and metadata are stored as records in a connector-specific indexed source. Search administrators can create search sources from this indexed source and link them to search profiles to make the indexed records searchable in AI Search applications.

• Configure Dropbox for external content indexing
  Create and authorize an OAuth 2.0 application in the Dropbox App Console to allow the Dropbox external content connector to access your Dropbox source system.
• Create a Dropbox external content connector
  Create an external content connector to retrieve searchable content and security principals from your Dropbox source system.
• Configure crawl settings for a Dropbox external content connector
  Specify the user and team folders you want your Dropbox external content connector to crawl. Define inclusion or exclusion filters to dictate the types of content the crawl retrieves and feeds to AI Search for indexing.

Parent Topic:Configuring External Content Connectors

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