Content Picker questions

1. That is something you will have to implement yourself. You can do something like

window.open('https://codepen.io/box-platform/live/PWPxBm', 'sdfsdf', "width=800,height=600')

However you will have to also write some code to pass data from the modal to the parent window via postMessage (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/postMessage) or window.opener (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/opener) or some other mechanism, so that what the content picker chooses, gets sent back to your code that opened the popup.

2. Use ContentPicker parent class instead of FolderPicker or FilePicker. It accepts a type option which can be 'file,folder,web_link'

var contentPicker = new Box.ContentPicker();
contentPicker.show(folderId, accessToken, { type: 'file,folder,web_link' });

Thank you so much, that's really helpful. Is there anywhere that describes the ContentPicker class a bit more?

Hi  and 

Have you checked out this article here?

https://developer.box.com/v2.0/docs/box-content-picker

Hi Howard,

Thanks for the response!

Yes, I've read through there. All the examples are split into file/folder so it's a little unclear what's part of the Content picker parent class and what's individual to files/folders.

Best,

Jamie

FilePicker is the same as ContentPicker with type='file' hardcoded.

FolderPicker is the same as ContentPicker with type='folder' hardcoded.

And in ContentPicker you can just specify the type you want, comma separated list.

I probably should add it to the documentation.

Great, that's really helpful. Thanks!