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Hello - Using the Box List Recents API, I would like to exclude any events where the root-level parent folder is private (has_collaborations=false).


It looks like I can pass has_collaborations as a field, but this only tells me about the item itself - I need to know if the item’s root level parent is also private.


To get the parent, I can use path_collection, but when passing path_collection.entries.has_collaborations as a field to https://api.box.com/2.0/recent_items, nothing is returned.


Is there another way to exclude recent events where the parent event is private?


Thanks,

Hi @dominic-dev, welcome to the forum.


Can you elaborate a bit more?


If I understood correctly you are querying the recent items end point.


This will return a collection of items, and you are looking for the path collection.


Something like:


curl --location 'https://api.box.com/2.0/recent_items?fields=path_collection' \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer 65S9'

With this result example:


{

    "next_marker": "b2Zmc2V0PTU=",

    "limit": 5,

    "order": {

        "by": "interacted_at",

        "direction": "DESC"

    },

    "entries": [

        {

            "type": "recent_item",

            "interaction_type": "item_open",

            "interacted_at": "2023-08-23T08:59:53-07:00",

            "item": {

                "type": "file",

                "id": "1010742636771",

                "etag": "1",

                "path_collection": {

                    "total_count": 1,

                    "entries": [

                        {

                            "type": "folder",

                            "id": "0",

                            "sequence_id": null,

                            "etag": null,

                            "name": "All Files"

                        }

                    ]

                }

            },

            "interaction_shared_link": null

        }

    ]

}

I’m unable to see the has_collaborations, and I’m not even sure it is included on the specification of the API.


Can you help me duplicate your use case?


Cheers

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