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user191New Participant
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Box Integration

I’m currently integrating Box authentication into my Angular application. Here’s an overview of the process: I open a new window for Box authentication using the following code const authorizationUrl = ‘Box - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, Access Documents & Files Anywhere, Backup Data, Share Files’; const openedWindow = window.open(authorizationUrl, “s”, “width=640,height=480,left=300,top=100,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,copyhistory=no”); Once the user completes the authentication process in the opened window, Box provides an access token via a callback to my Angular application. I want to retrieve the access code from the authenticated Box window and use it in my Angular application for subsequent API requests. However, I’m encountering a “DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin” error when trying to access the cross-origin frame from https://account.box.com. I have already added https

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NiladriKnown Participant
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How many app users can be created per Application? Is there any limitation?

After creating around 250 app users, I got 429 rate limit error.

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rbarbosa Box
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sudhirNew Participant
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Assistance Needed: Transitioning App Authorization from Internal to Production

Hello Developer Community, I am the developer of Duplicate Files Fixer, a tool created by Tweaking Technologies Private Limited. I would like to bring your attention to our application, which can be accessed at the following URL: ‎Duplicate Files Fixer on the Mac App Store Duplicate Files Fixer is designed to efficiently remove duplicate files from users’ Mac and PC systems. It provides support for both local and cloud platforms. Currently, we offer integration with Google Drive and Dropbox as part of our cloud platform support. In an effort to further enhance our cloud platform support, I am interested in adding a “remove duplicates from Box Cloud” feature to our application. To achieve this, I have used Box API. All integration is done successfully. However, I have encountered an issue regarding the authorization process, specifically transitioning from the “Internal” status to the “Production” status. I found this behaviour in other cloud platforms to move from testing/Int

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ahayatNew Participant
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Metadata API Post method search performance and limitations

I have a question around searching metadata for our member’s documents. One of our engineers recalls an expert suggesting that once we fully populate Box with our approx. 9 TBs of documents (~200M) and their associated metadata, we would not be able to search using the Box Metadata API endpoint for a unique member id (internal identifier) on a custom metadata (memberId) tag, to get back a collection of Box document IDs that relate to that particular member. Instead, he suggested we build and utilize an external SQL database to host member metadata related to Box Folder and Document IDs. Is there any reason why we cannot utilize the Box APIs to do such searches in a performant way instead of having to build an external metadata management system to track this. We are already aware of the search limitation and the need for indices. Please provide us with some clarification on the best way to handle this, what are the true limitations if any, and how can we overcome them?

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user19Participating Frequently
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Box API call to Get Folder Items returns Error: Request failed with status code 404

I created a custom APP and able to run APIs from Postman without any errors. When I try to run from typescript, I am able to run API calls to get an access token. But when I run list folder items api call it fails with 404 error - not found. I also added ‘as_user’ to the header of request, but still getting the same error. What am I missing? The API call works with Developers Token. When I use Access Token the above APIs don’t work and return 404 error. Very much appreciate your responses.

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user711Known Participant
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How I run a Box API in Postman with multiple iterations using a CSV file?

How I can use a CSV file to upload different variables for a Box API call in Postman?

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TOYOHIDE_SUMITANew Participant
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Regarding possible risks with custom apps that uses OAuth 2.0 (server authentication)

There is a request to develop a Box app internally. Assuming that we do not provide the app developers with administrator or co-administrator accounts, for a custom app that uses OAuth 2.0 (server authentication), the anticipated risks include being limited to accessing folders/files within the scope of the account used to log in to the app. However, are there any other anticipated risks, particularly related to security?

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user16New Participant
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My box drive won't get updated any more

so i logged out and re-login. but still my file that I worked on a few hours ago are not updated. I don’t know why box drive and box site didn’t get updated. How to update and sync all files again?

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user11New Participant
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Unable to process box sign. Unable to create folder

Hi everyone, I’ve followed the configurations steps of this link https://help.form.io/developers/integrations/esign/esign-example to configure Esign inside form.io. When I try to test the Esign component in a simple form, I am not able to submit because it displays the following error : unable to process box sign: unable to create folder: error: error:1e08010c:decoder routines::unsupported. All the app configurations are inside box app seem to be okay. Could you help me with this? Thank you.

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user8New Participant
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Folders and Documents

Hi, to access folders and files created from a BOX Application, in the past I used the Content option in the browser, now, that option is not showing the folder structure. My question is: Where can I have access to the folder structure like before? Thanks in advance, best regards, Gerardo

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rbarbosa BoxDeveloper Advocate
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ICYMI: Blog : 2023-05

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ICYMI: Blog : 2023-04

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ICYMI: Blog : 2023-03

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ICYMI: Blog : 2023-01

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ICYMI: Blog : 2022-12

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shurrey BoxHead of Developer Relations
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About the General category

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systemCommunity Manager
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Welcome to our community!

Welcome to the new home of the Box Developer Community! We are super excited to see you here. This is a replacement for the Zendesk forum you are used to. We hope you will find this site much easier to use. We have taken care to organize topics to help you find answers in the right place from the right people. We also hope you will enjoy some of the general areas where we can have conversations and get to know each other. The Box Developer Relations team is here to support you, but also to represent you to the rest of Box. We want your feedback so we can help shape the developer experience to be the best it can be. We aren’t salespeople. We are developers. The goal for this site is to have a fun place to hang out, to share knowledge with each other, and to help you build the best integration you can. Here is the team: @smartoneinok: Alex Novotny, Senior Developer Evangelist @ostefaniuk: Olga Stefaniuk, Developer Advocate @rbarbosa: Rui Barbosa, Developer Advocate Feel free to reac

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