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How To Automatically Upload a Zoho File Attachment to Dropbox from Zoho Creator using Dropbox API v2 and Zoho postUrl

I'm an idiot, so this took about 6 hours for me to figure out, but apparently many people have not been able to figure this out, and I could not find a complete and working solution online anywhere. If you want to be able to upload a file to Dropbox from Zoho Creator, you have to create a custom function like below (here I called the function "Dropbox", under namespace "Create"). In the function, the ID is being passed to it from the underlying form entry. void Create.Dropbox(int id) { url = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/save_url"; headers = {"Authorization":"Bearer XXXXX","Content-Type":"application/json"}; data = {"path":"/FFFF/TTTT.XXX","url":"YYYY"}; datastring = data.toString(); response = postUrl(url,datastring,headers,false); } ... where XXXXX is your secret Dropbox Token, and YYYY is the url of the file you are uploading, and FFFF is the Dr