Invite member with team folders in Dropbox
Automatically invite a new hire to Dropbox with their team folders from a Slack request with Stepwork, ready on day one.
- Use case
- Employee onboardingIT
- Best for
- IT Administrator, Helpdesk Technician
- Applications used
Dropbox
Slack
- Business outcome
- Employee experience
The problem
Day one waits on folder-by-folder access.
New hires need the shared folders their team already uses. IT invites them, then clicks through each folder by hand, often missing one until someone asks in Slack.
Access depends on whoever remembers the folder list that week. Two people in the same role rarely get the same set on day one.
The outcome
Team files on day one
Stepwork invites the member and grants access to the named team folders from the request. They can open what their role needs, and the run records who asked and which folders were added. When that person later leaves, Suspend member in Dropbox ends their access.
- The invite uses the email from the request.
- Each named team folder is included.
- If a folder cannot be found, the run stops on that step.
The process
From Slack request to Dropbox team folders
A teammate posts the new hire and their team folders in Slack. Stepwork invites them and grants the folders.
- Step 1
Request it in Slack
A teammate posts the new hire’s email and the team folders they need. That message starts the flow, and Stepwork records who asked and when.
- Step 2
Invite the member
Stepwork signs in to Dropbox admin and sends the invite for the email in the request.
- Step 3
Grant team folders
Stepwork adds the member to each named shared folder, the same grants an admin makes by hand.
- Step 4
Confirm and reply in Slack
Stepwork checks that the invite and folder grants are saved, then posts the result back in Slack.
Why Stepwork
The folder set stays consistent
Stepwork runs the invite path you recorded. New hires get the same team folders without a folder-by-folder chase.
Similar use cases
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