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How does exporting inspection reports to Dropbox work?
When you connect SafetyCulture to Dropbox, the integration automatically exports completed inspection reports from SafetyCulture into a folder in your Dropbox account. This helps your team keep reports in a central location and use Dropbox features such as search, sharing, and access control.
The integration exports inspection reports based on the inspections that the account installing the integration can access. If you are an administrator, you can give yourself inspection access for the templates you need or assign yourself "Override permissions: View all data" permission so you can export reports for all inspections in your organization.
By default, exported reports follow the folder structure in your SharePoint site "SafetyCulture / [site name] / [template title] / [yyyy-mm]", where:
SafetyCulture is the fixed root folder, so you can always see where the files came from.
[site name] is the SafetyCulture site the inspection belongs to.
[template title] is the title of the template used for the inspection.
[yyyy-mm] matches the month the inspection was completed, using a year-month format like2025-07.
Dropbox also has a limit for the file and folder path length. If the combined path (all folders and the file name) exceeds 260 characters, the export fails, and the report does not appear in Dropbox.
To avoid export failures, keep inspection titles, template titles, and site names concise and avoid deep folder structures.
The integration only exports inspections that you complete after you set it up. It does not automatically upload inspections that you completed before you connected this integration.
What you'll need
Automatically export inspection reports to Dropbox
Click your organization name on the lower-left corner of the page and select Integrations.
Search for "Dropbox" and select the integration.
Click Install at the center of the page.
In the pop-up window, click Install.
Review the permissions for this connection.
Click Connect.
Follow the authentication prompts.
Click the dropdown menu under "Folder location".
Select where in Dropbox you want to export your inspection reports and click Save and apply.
Click Done.
Now that the integration is installed and set up, completed inspections will be automatically exported to your selected Dropbox folder.
If you want to export inspection reports to a shared folder, you'll need the "Can edit" permission at a minimum.
