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Hello Box Community, I am currently using Box Drive and monitoring file events with its Webhooks. I’m curious to know if it’s possible to retrieve the version history of files using Box Drive Webhooks. Specifically, I’d like to retrieve the version history related to changes made to a file, and I’m particularly interested in detecting if a file version has been reverted. If anyone in the Box community knows how to retrieve file version history using Box Drive Webhooks, I would greatly appreciate any insights you can provide. Thank you very much.

Hello Getting exception “Request timed out” since Friday 4/12 through today on downloads using Box C# client var stream = await client.FilesManager.DownloadAsync(BoxID); On Saturday could not download any files Now it seems after program start, 1 or 2 downloads in a row work fine and then it hits a wall, restarting program over and over is the short term fix. Integration has been in place since 2020 Program has not changed lately Can access Box.com UI fine and download files too. Thank You!

Hi Team, We are trying to set the unshared_at value to update the publicly shared folder to be accessible for 10 minutes only, with this endpoint, https://developer.box.com/reference/put-folders-id/#param-shared_link-unshared_at We do have a paid account However we are getting the below response : { "reason": "invalid_parameter", "name": "unshared_at", "message": "Invalid value '1712055223'." } Could anyone help with this error

In implementing a flow within the OAuth authentication process that always prompts users to select an account, is my understanding correct that there are currently no parameters available for this purpose? developer.box.com Authorize user - API Reference - Box Developer Documentation Explore the Box APIs and SDKs to use for app development, API documentation, developer support resources, and access the Box Developer Console

Using the API, is there any way to get download/preview counts when you create a shared link for a folder? I can see counts on the files in the folder through the web interface, but files returned by the api don’t have shared link data which is where the counts would show if the individual files had a shared link. The shared link data related to the folder returned by the api exists, but the download/preview counts are always 0. I wasn’t really expecting them to be anything else, but those are the only counts I can find that have any value at all. I suppose I can create a shared link of each individual file in addition to the folder, but I was hoping to avoid that. Thanks!

I was trying to create the webhook but i encounter this error while creating it Anyone know what was the reason of it?

I’ve created a Box free account and trying to access the box APIs using Postman. I have used Auth 2.0 flow and successfully authenticated to generate an access token. While I’m able to perform GET API callouts, I’m encountering issues with POST callouts for actions such as creating files or folders. These attempts result in a 403-error status code. Could someone please suggest a solution for accessing Box APIs with a free account? Do I need to purchase a plan or are there any prerequisites or configurations that I might be missing?

I am using trial version of Enterprise Box and I have created Box Custom application (authorized by Box admin). Then I generated a private key PK for that Box application and I use this PK to connect to Box App from AWS Kendra. I use Kendra Developer Edition in this test. This method used to work, however today I received the below connection error after providing new PK to Kendra. PK is passed to Kendra using Secrets Manager. Error connecting to customer repository: Error parsing PKCS private key for Box Developer Edition. I made sure the PK is copied properly to Kendra. I also tested connectivity using the same PK and Box SDK and I can connect successfully to Box App programmatically using Python, however the connection from AWS Console fails. What can cause this error? This is private key format generated from BOX Application. It contains “\n” character as text. I normally copy “privateKey” into secret in Secrets Manager Kendra uses and this used to work. { "boxAppSettings": {

We are planning shared folders (app folders) for about 50 applications. The folder structure could be as simple as AppA/FolderX and AppB/FolderX. Users can be authorized for several apps. Let’s say we want to authorize a user to edit files in each FolderX. We can share both folders and users see “FolderX” twice in their box. I guess via API it would be possible, to address both folders individually, but we want to make the apps available via box web interface, too. What we really want is to show users the full AppA and AppB folder structure in the web interface without any files that are stored in other folders than FolderX. What we can do is to additionally authorize users to view AppA and AppB. The full directory structure is then visible in the user interface so he users can see if the displayed FolderX belong to AppA and AppB. But users will also be allowed to view files outside FolderX. If we could share AppA with the privilege to “only view folders”, then that would help. I am pr

I’m following these instructions and I am struggling to decrypt the private key in ColdFusion/Lucee. Here’s how it’s done in PHP: $private_key = $config->boxAppSettings->appAuth->privateKey; $passphrase = $config->boxAppSettings->appAuth->passphrase; $key = openssl_pkey_get_private($private_key, $passphrase); Has anyone managed to get it working?

Hello team, I’m currently engaged with the Box Platform and Box Webhook. I have a question regarding the folder creation event – does it trigger when all files within the folder are uploaded, or does it happen immediately upon creating the folder? Furthermore, is it possible for me to promptly make an API call to retrieve the list of files in the folder and download them right after receiving the folder created event? Thanks,

can anyone help me by getting an esign request Id using the folder Id? I did try requesting extra fields on listing out the esign requests but no luck. Thank you

I’m calling the Box API directly from JavaScript to upload a new file. As the docs suggest, I run a preflight check first, and that check succeeds (200). The code for the preflight check looks like this: const preflightResponse = await fetch(url, { method: "OPTIONS", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${this.#token}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ name, parent: { id: parentId, }, }), }); After that step succeeds, I move on to the next step of uploading the actual file. For this text, I’m just sending the text “Hello, world!” to a file named hello.txt. The parentId is the folder to upload to, and it exists (otherwise the preflight check would fail). The code to upload the file looks like this: const form = new FormData(); form.append("attributes", JSON.stringify({ name, parent: { id: parentId, }, })); form.append("file", new Blob(["Hello, world!"])); const response = await fetch(url, { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization:

Hi. I’m trying to find the best way to give a consumer using my mobile app a set of files created by my app when they click a button. Most of my users will not have a desktop computer or a printer. They will need to either (a) forward the documents to a FedEx email for printing or (b) upload the files to an online e-filing system. I don’t want the user to create a Box.com account, because that would be confusing to consumers using a mobile app. The simplest thing would be to email the attachments to the user, but I’ve gathered Box.com can only email share links that cannot be easily forwarded to FedEx for printing or uploaded to an online e-filing system from a mobile device. Any suggestions on the best way to go about this? Need a secure way to make it easy for a user to email the docs to a FedEx printing email or upload them to an online portal, from their phone.

It use to be easy but i do not see an option anymore on how too see how many folders I have.

Is it possible to configure the non-private custom URL in Shared Link Settings using the BOX API? I want to automate the process of linking files from local storage to BOX and setting a non-private custom URL using the BOX API. Since I couldn’t find information in the API reference, I would appreciate your guidance.

I’m running an API call to /files/[fileid]/content with just the file id in the URL and the access token in the header. It says the api call is completing successfully, but it does not actually prompt a download in the browser. It worked a while back, but I’m not sure what I changed causing it not to work any more. Any tips on what I can check would be helpful. Thanks in advance for any assistance.

When attempting to extract tracking codes for a particular user via Python script, I am receiving an AttributeError as follows: ‘User’ object has no attribute ‘tracking_codes’. Based on the documentation I’ve read, I should be able to pull tracking codes using the ‘tracking_codes’ attribute. Any input on addressing this issue would be greatly appreciate.

Hi, I can query for various thumbnail representations of an uploaded image, but is there any endpoint/query that will return the original dimensions of the file? Thanks

I want to give users of my FlutterFlow mobile/web app full access to a dynamic folder path from within my app, without the user knowing they are in Box. This means a custom app using JWT authentication using key pairs and the config.json for authentication: https://developer.box.com/guides/authentication/jwt/without-sdk/ However, FlutterFlow does not have native support for SDKs, python, or any of the languages supported in the documentation. I was wondering if anyone else has any experience using Box.com integrations with Flutter/FlutterFlow apps and if so how they did it.

Hi there. I’m looking for a way to download a watermarked file using the API with a viewer user. I saw the platform docs mentioning that when using a Viewer user to download a watermarked file, you need to first open the file for preview and then the download becomes available. How can I do the same thing using the API instead of the UI?

Our app is currently under review. Even though it is in the review process, is it okay for our customers to use it? Are there any restrictions, such as a maximum number of connections?

Hi, We have issue where we want to get all the collaborators for file, however, we are not getting all the collaborators. If I call list folder collaboration Api, I am getting all the collaborators whoever have access to that file. If it is waterfall permission model, I should have all the collaborations from the file endpoint, if that file under the parent folder. So why I am not getting all the collaborators when I use list file collaboration API? ref: - List file collaborations - API Reference - Box Developer Documentation

Hello there I am developing an integration for a customer that uses BOX. I have created my own box account to develop and test the integration. Today i wanted to test it out on the customers enterprise. They could add and authorize the app easily via the client id. However the app service account needs to be added as a collaborator to the folder it needs to see. This is where we ran into trouble, as BOX refused to add the service account since it was from a different enterprise. Is it possible to add a serviceaccount from a different enterprise at all? I am going at this the wrong way or is there some trick that i have missed. Best regards Malte

Hi Team, I am facing issue while uploading file to folder, I am having collaborator access for uploading file to a folder. My colleague has added me as collaborator (Admin) in app. When using Developer Token of that app I am able to upload file on folder, but when generating Access Token and using it to upload it gives me below error: Error when uploading using Generated Access Token: { “type”: “error”, “status”: 404, “code”: “not_found”, “context_info”: { “errors”: [ { “reason”: “invalid_parameter”, “name”: “parent”, “message”: “Invalid value ‘d_244280116703’. ‘parent’ with value ‘d_244280116703’ not found” } ] }, “help_url”: “http://developers.box.com/docs/#errors”, “message”: “Not Found”, “request_id”: “6sq71ghlvfufpj1r” } I am generating token using client credentials and authentication for my app is OAuth 2.0 Can someone tell me what is issue or what i am missing in this implementation? Thanks