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Guides

Getting Started

Use Case Evaluation User Models Architecture Patterns Locating Common Values Branding Guidelines User Types

Select App Type Custom App Limited Access App App Center Web App Integration Custom Skills

Select Auth Method Best Practices Box API & SSO Tokens OAuth 2.0 Auth JWT Auth Client Credentials Grant App Token Auth

Custom App Approval Limited Access App Approval Common Errors Custom Skill Approval

Types & Formats Status Codes Request Extra Fields Sorting Responses Ensure Consistency Allowing Domain Access Suppress Notifications Language Codes Pagination Permissions & Errors

Use Box CLI with OAuth 2.0 CLI sample scripts CLI additional guides

Box Embed UI Elements Box View

Postman Collection Salesforce Developer Toolkit SDKs

Device Pinners Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Terms of Service

SSO & App users

Connect SSO identities to app users Create connection between SSO identity and app user Find app user for SSO identity Connect Okta identities to Box App Users in a web app

Share Content with User Sharing with Groups Get Pending Collaborations Connect Slack to Box Group Collaborations Allowed collaboration domains

List User's Collections List Items in Collections Add Item to Collection Remove Item from Collection

Create Comment Create Reply

Download File Download File Version Download Shared Link Get Download URL Download in Browser Download All Files in Folder

User Events Enterprise Events Event Stream Parameters Event Triggers

Get File Information Limitations

Create a template File Request Copy a File Request Get information for a File Request Update a File Request Delete a File Request

Single Folders Bulk Manipulation

List All Legal Hold Policies Get Legal Hold Policy

Metadata template scopes Classifications Working with Metadata Metadata templates Metadata fields Metadata instances Metadata queries Metadata cascade policies

Deep Linking iOS Android

Representations

List All Representations for File Request Desired Representation Download File Representation Get Thumbnail Representation Get Basic Thumbnail Get PDF Representation Get Text Representation Supported File Types

Retention Policies

List All Retention Policies Get Retention Policy

Search indexing Query operators Filter search results Pagination Metadata Query Filters Enterprise-wide search Searching trash Finding recent shared links Requesting extra fields Search content using metadata

Create or Update Shared Link Find Item from Shared Link Remove Shared Link Shared Link Permissions

Get Workflows Start Workflow

Create Box Sign Request List Box Sign Requests Resend Box Sign Request Cancel Box Sign Request

Invocation URL Community Sample Skills Box Skills Kit Handle Skills Payloads

Create a task Get information about a task Lists all tasks for a file Make changes to an existing task Delete a task Assigning tasks

Restore File Permanently Delete File Restore Folder Permanently Delete Folder Restore Web Link Permanently Delete Web Link

Preflight Check Direct Uploads Chunked Uploads

Create Managed User Create App User Delete User Provision Users Deprovision Users

Webhook Event Triggers V2 Webhooks V1 Webhooks

Create Web Link Delete Web Link