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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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