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Features
Some of the features of the Box connector include:
- Ability to perform either full or incremental crawling (so that only new/updated documents are indexed)
- Possibility of exclude a folder or a set of folders and their content.
- Possibility of exclude or include elements (folders or files) by file name or folder name using regular expression (regex patterns)
- Metadata extraction
- it is search engine independent
- Runs from any machine with access to the given Box account
- Fetches access control lists (ACLs)
Content Retrieved
The Box connector retries several types of documents, listed bellow are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.
Include
- Folders
- Folder’s collaborations
- Files
- Box Note
- Bookmark
- Google Doc
- Google Spreadsheet
- Word document
- PowerPoint document
- Excel Spreadsheet
- File’s comments
- File’s tasks
- Task’s assignments
- Users and Groups (memberships)
- Events (for Incremental crawls)
- ITEM_CREATE
- ITEM_UPLOAD
- COMMENT_CREATE
- ITEM_MOVE
- ITEM_COPY
- TASK_ASSIGNMENT_CREATE
- ITEM_TRASH
- COLLAB_ADD_COLLABORATOR
- ITEM_RENAME
Exclude
Limitations
Due to API limitations, Box connector has the following limitations:
Future Development Plan
The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:
Anything we should add? Please let us know.