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How to send Box-Notifications header with the value off in BOX API .Net??

  • May 21, 2025
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How to send Box-Notifications header with the value off in BOX API .Net

 

Hi,

 

I am making administrative API calls to download the box files, and the user signing in is a co-admin with the correct "Edit settings for your company" permission and I want to suppress email notifications.

 

I am making Box API call (in C#) as mentioned below

 

BoxSession boxsession = new BoxSession("AccessToken","RefreshToken","ExpiresIn","TokenType")

BoxConfig  Config = new BoxConfig(ClientId, ClientSecret, RedirectUri) { AcceptEncoding = CompressionType.gzip };

BoxClient  Client = new BoxClient(Config, boxSession);

 

Stream stream = await Client.FilesManager.DownloadStreamAsync(fileId)

 

Query: how to send Box-Notifications header with above request???

 

Thanks in advance.

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     I am not sure if I fully understand your question. Just to clarify, are you asking how to turn turn off email notifications for a specific folder?

    C
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    Hello Murtza,

                         Thanks for time. I got reference from following link:

    https://docs.box.com/reference#section-suppressing-notifications

    It says about passing a header Box-Notification with a value off.

    I am using box c# api from GIT https://github.com/box/box-windows-sdk-v2 but unable to find any way to pass this header .

     

    Can you suggest?

     

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     Thanks for clarifying.

     

    You can add a header by modifying the AddDefaultHeaders method in the BoxResourceManager class. Adding a header in this method will add a header to all requests you make with this SDK to the Box API. Please see the example below.

     

        protected IBoxRequest AddDefaultHeaders(IBoxRequest request)
        {
            request
                .Header(Constants.RequestParameters.UserAgent, _config.UserAgent);
                .Header(Constants.RequestParameters.AcceptEncoding, _config.AcceptEncoding.ToString());
                /// Add a header to suppress notifications
                .Header("Box-Notifications", "off");
            
            if (!String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_asUser))
                request.Header(Constants.RequestParameters.AsUser, _asUser);

            return request;
        }

     

    To follow the conventions of our SDK, you would store the string for the header key in the Constants class and store the string for header value in the BoxConfig class.

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    Thanks Murtza,

                               It is helpful. Although I was assuming that it would be configurable( without rebuilding the lib can be set from code).

     

    Thanks for the help.

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    Thanks. This is what I was looking for.

    But now after adding this header I am gettting error "Forbidden" while making an API Call..

    e.g. I am using UsersManager.GetEnterpriseUsersAsync call to get all the users in enterprise.

    If I use lib without the box-notification header it works fine but if i add the  header it started returning 'Forbidden"

     

    Is there any other settings required in Box Application.?

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