Dropbox, Inc.

Royce Ausburn

Vinod Valloppillil

Tony Xu

Zach Johnston

Kevin Grey

Aaron Passey

Nipunn Koorapati

Sergei Vorobev

Stephen Eisner

Narmada Jayasankar

Haichen Liu

Alexandra Harris

Blake Lucchesi

Waqas Sheikh

Panagiotis Athanasiou

David Wetterau

Fangzhou Wang

Nicholas Larson

Eric Cunningham

William Ho

Harrison Ho

Gautam Gupta

Yuyang Guo

Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran

Sourabh Yerfule

Parker Timmerman

Adam Arbree

Jonathan Chien

Rishabh Jain

Zihao Yang

David Aeschlimann

Bryan Guillemette

Michael Nilsson

Stanimir Pehlivanov

Technologies for implementing customized behaviors for content items are provided. An example method can include receiving, from a user account registered with a content management system, a request to access a content item managed by the content management system for the user account, the content item having one or more behaviors configured for an attribute associated with the content item and/or the content item associated with the attribute; obtaining, from a representation of a remote state of content items associated with the user account, metadata defining the attribute associated with the content item; based on the metadata, determining the one or more behaviors configured for the attribute and/or the content item associated with the attribute; and applying the one or more behaviors to the content item.

Per-node metadata for custom node behaviors across platforms

The present technology pertains to a link service that can create, maintain, and service links to objects on behalf of a content management system or other services. The link service can share administration of links with other services when desired or can even allow other services to issue the link and manage the object that is the subject of the link while providing other functions to support the link. Additionally, link service can interface with a file system that can support links as actors in the file system, whereby greater control and flexibility in supporting links is provided. Link service can also accommodate servicing and management of links issued by legacy services, where the legacy services have unique link logic that should still be utilized to maintain a consistent user experience.

Links as actors in a file system

Links platform-as-a-service

Proxy links to support legacy links

Co-managing links with a link platform and partner service

The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for providing workflow controls to shared content items stored on client devices, and enforcing content item check outs or content item locks for shared content items stored and accessed on client devices. The present technology further includes automatically locking a shared content item that is edited on a client device so that other team members cannot modify the content item. Accordingly, the present technology improves upon existing systems that provide workflow controls such as file check-in and checkout functionality by permitting users to access content items directly from the file system of their client device, and by providing automatic checkout and check-in functionality.

Workflow functions of content management system enforced by client device

Workflow function of content management system enforced by client device

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Royce Ausburn