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API version 2024.0 Legal Hold Assignments are used to assign Legal Hold Policies to Users, Folders, Files, or File Versions. Creating a Legal Hold Assignment puts a hold on the File-Versions that belong to the Assignment’s ‘apply-to’ entity.
This resource has a few variations that can be encountered when using the API.The fields that are part of the base variant represent the default fields that are always returned when using the fields query parameter, additional to the fields specified in the parameter.
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id
string
example: 11446498The unique identifier for this legal hold assignment.
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type
string
example: legal_hold_policy_assignmentThe value will always be legal_hold_policy_assignment.Value is always legal_hold_policy_assignment
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assigned_at
string(date-time)
example: 2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00When the legal hold policy assignment object was created.
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assigned_by
User (Mini)object
The user who created the legal hold policy assignment.
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assigned_to
File/Folder/Web linkobject
The item that the legal hold policy is assigned to. Includes type and ID.
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deleted_at
string(date-time)
example: 2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00When the assignment release request was sent. (Because it can take time for an assignment to fully delete, this isn’t quite the same time that the assignment is fully deleted). If null, Assignment was not deleted.
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legal_hold_policy
Legal hold policy (Mini)object
The policy that the legal hold policy assignment is part of.
{
  "id": "11446498",
  "type": "legal_hold_policy_assignment",
  "assigned_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "assigned_by": {
    "id": "11446498",
    "type": "user",
    "login": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Aaron Levie"
  },
  "assigned_to": {
    "id": "12345",
    "type": "file",
    "content_created_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "content_modified_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "created_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "created_by": {
      "id": "11446498",
      "type": "user",
      "login": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Aaron Levie"
    },
    "description": "Contract for Q1 renewal",
    "etag": "1",
    "file_version": {
      "id": "12345",
      "type": "file_version",
      "sha1": "134b65991ed521fcfe4724b7d814ab8ded5185dc"
    },
    "item_status": "active",
    "modified_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "modified_by": {
      "id": "11446498",
      "type": "user",
      "login": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Aaron Levie"
    },
    "name": "Contract.pdf",
    "owned_by": {
      "id": "11446498",
      "type": "user",
      "login": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Aaron Levie"
    },
    "parent": {
      "id": "12345",
      "type": "folder",
      "etag": "1",
      "name": "Contracts",
      "sequence_id": "3"
    },
    "path_collection": {
      "entries": [
        {
          "etag": "1",
          "id": "12345",
          "type": "folder",
          "name": "Contracts",
          "sequence_id": "3"
        }
      ],
      "total_count": 1
    },
    "purged_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "sequence_id": "3",
    "sha1": "85136C79CBF9FE36BB9D05D0639C70C265C18D37",
    "shared_link": {
      "access": "open",
      "download_count": 3,
      "download_url": "https://www.box.com/shared/static/rh935iit6ewrmw0unyul.jpeg",
      "effective_access": "company",
      "effective_permission": "can_download",
      "is_password_enabled": true,
      "permissions": {
        "can_download": true,
        "can_edit": false,
        "can_preview": true
      },
      "preview_count": 3,
      "unshared_at": "2018-04-13T13:53:23-07:00",
      "url": "https://www.box.com/s/vspke7y05sb214wjokpk",
      "vanity_name": "my_url",
      "vanity_url": "https://acme.app.box.com/v/my_url/"
    },
    "size": 629644,
    "trashed_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00"
  },
  "deleted_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "legal_hold_policy": {
    "id": "11446498",
    "type": "legal_hold_policy"
  }
}