Dropbox, Inc.

Sergei Vorobev

Vinod Valloppillil

Tony Xu

Royce Ausburn

Zach Johnston

Narmada Jayasankar

Kevin Grey

Stephen Eisner

Panagiotis Athanasiou

Haichen Liu

Alexandra Harris

Blake Lucchesi

Waqas Sheikh

Nils Milton Bunger

Thomas Kleinpeter

Marcio Von Muhlen

Conor Woods

Quazie Kwaselow

The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.

File system warnings application programing interface (API)

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

File system warnings

Caching of file system warning queries to determine an applicable file system warning

Workflow function of content management system enforced by client device

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Sergei Vorobev