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Hello Box Community,

I’m working on integrating Box with my application and want to establish a security policy federation. Specifically, I want to map user permissions from Box to my application’s permission model, ensuring consistent access control across both platforms.

So far, I have explored the following:

  • The Get File API to retrieve permissions, but it only returns permissions for the current user. This means I would need to get all enterprise users and execute the Get File API for each user individually to gather permissions for all users, which seems inefficient.

  • The Collaborations API to retrieve collaborators on files and folders.

Is there any existing solution, best practice, or recommended approach for:

  • Federating security policies between Box and an external application?

  • Efficiently mapping Box user permissions or roles to custom permissions in my app without having to query each user individually?

  • Tools or APIs provided by Box to facilitate this kind of integration?

Any pointers, documentation, or examples would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Believe you can sync Box permissions with your app smoothly—no need to loop every user manually.

  • Review Box’s Admin SDK and Enterprise events audit log for bulk permission snapshots.
  • Use Collaboration APIs to list who has access, then map those roles in your app.
  • Automate: pull logs + collaborator lists, process once, store your own mapping.

@malik_john hope it helps the community


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