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Box Community Weekly Digest: January 31, 2025

Box Community Weekly Digest: January 31, 2025
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Stay in the loop with the latest discussions, trending topics, and key insights from the Box Community. This week, we’re highlighting hot topics, must-join roundtables, incredible members, and what’s buzzing among your peers. Plus, get the latest product updates to help you make the most of Box.

 

 

 

 

🎉 We’re excited to bring together thought leaders and experts for insightful discussions in our recent roundtables. Thank you to our amazing speakers—your insights help drive meaningful conversations and innovation!

"You can treat AI like a student worker" - Baylor University overview of Box Hubs and Box AI rollout

💫 A huge thank you to​ @Brent_Harris and ​@Micah for an insightful overview of how Baylor University is rolling out AI while leveraging Box Hubs and Box AI! We also appreciate @Meena Ganesh Box and Murtaza Masood for sharing valuable higher ed perspectives and a deep dive into Box AI and Box AI Studio. Your expertise made for an engaging and informative discussion!

 

Getting Started with Box Apps - Highlights and Recording

💫 Shoutout to Keshav Koratkar and Dane Becker for an overview and demo of Box Apps and Integrated Content Workflows with live Q&A! Great discussions and takeaways, and thanks to everyone who joined!

 

Box Hubs, Doc Gen, Flow Actions for Salesforce plus AppExchange Accelerator & Review program!

💫 Let’s take a moment to appreciate our incredible Salesforce and Product team—@Anna Spallino Box, ​@amandanielsen Box, ​@Laryssa BoxKimberly Kung, and ​@nread Box—for sharing valuable updates! Some of the topics covered included the Box Hubs for Salesforce demo, Box Doc Gen for Salesforce, and Salesforce Flow Actions.

💫 We also appreciate@robertsur from Delegate Consulting for presenting the Salesforce AppExchange Accelerator program.

 

@Scott Picanco Box 

💫 A seasoned expert at Box, he recently shared exciting updates on two key features:

With a deep understanding of Box's capabilities, he has been instrumental in enhancing collaboration and efficiency for Box users. His insights into Shared Signature Requests are helping teams seamlessly manage and track signature processes, while his tutorial on the Box Doc Gen API is empowering developers to create dynamic, error-free documents with ease.

 

 

🎉 A huge shoutout to our amazing Community Rockstars this week! Your contributions, insights, and engagement continue to make the Box Community a valuable space for everyone. 👏

💫 @noufil

We’re excited to highlight Reva Solutions, one of Box AI Partners! Reva Solutions has built a powerful integration between Box and ServiceNow, leveraging the intelligence of Box AI to fully automate HR processes—saving time and increasing efficiency. By using Box AI, the system can automatically classify documents, extract key metadata, and trigger actions—no manual effort needed!

➡ Read more about this integration here: Automating HR Processes with Box AI and ServiceNow

 

💫 seamusruizearle

A heartfelt thanks for sharing the innovative solution by Carabiner Group, which utilizes Formstack’s powerful platform to help TMC redefine its data collection and document management processes.

➡ Check out this demo to see how TMC efficiently collects, processes, and executes loan data. The solution integrates Formstack’s form collection, document generation, and e-signature features seamlessly into Salesforce and Box, creating a secure and automated workflow.

 

💫 DonHammons

Let’s shine the spotlight on DonHammons, a true community champion! He has been actively engaging in discussions and sharing valuable insights across various topics.

In our recent roundtable, he highlighted the great partnership between Box and mxHERO, showcasing how they utilize Box’s Intelligent Content Cloud to collaborate, secure, and manage all enterprise content (including intelligent email capture).

➡ Learn more about mxHERO in the Box Community here: mxHERO - Mail2Cloud - Intelligent Email Management (IEM).

 

 

Stay up-to-date with the latest innovations and updates by subscribing to our announcements and release notes. 📩

 

Preview on hover in list views (Jan 2025)

Preview on hover in list view is now available for file types, including text documents, spreadsheets, and images. By hovering over the file icon to see the preview, users are able to quickly skim and find the file they’re looking for.

Box is launching a public Beta for Folder Insights (Jan 2025)

Box has launched a Beta for our new Folder Insights capability. Folder Insights provides crucial information to folder owners on how their data is being shared and collaborated on, extending visibility previously limited only to admins.

Box support for customer access via Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

Box now supports customer access via Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses. This benefits customers that have upgraded to IPv6 for security, as well as US government customers who are required to transition to IPv6 in accordance with the federal mandate. Box also supports dual stack operations (i.e., access via IPv4 and IPv6 in parallel).

Streamlined External user management experience in Admin Console (Jan 2025)

Last year, we introduced a new experience for external user management in the Admin Console, and are now making this experience the default view.

Box is adding configurable MFA timeouts

In order to ensure that our admins have the precise controls needed to frictionlessly protect their organizations and its most critical content, we are enhancing our multi-factor authentication (MFA) settings with granular MFA timeout options.

The Box Sign outcome in Box Relay

Available as part of our Enterprise Advanced plan, this new enhancement will eliminate the need to manually send generated documents for e-signature or approval, reducing turnaround times and improving operational efficiency.

The Box Doc Gen outcome in Box Relay

With the Box Doc Gen outcome in Box Relay, users can configure Box Relay workflows that automatically leverage Box Doc Gen templates to generate custom documents.

Generate new images in Box with Adobe Express

We’re excited to bring you the next step of Box and Adobe joint release by enabling users to create new images from text directly in Box using Adobe Express.

Custom folder mapping in Microsoft Teams with Box

Coming soon, Admins and Developers will be able to create and deploy a custom folder structure using Folder Mapping APIs to map Teams channels directly to corresponding Box folders.

Platform Apps available among Recommended Web Integrations

Coming soon, the unpublished Platform Apps that have been developed at or added in the enterprise, will also be considered among the Recommended Web Integrations.



 

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February 6, 2025

AI trends, opportunities, and best practices for 2025

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February 12, 2025

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Salesforce Datablazer Community meetup

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