Features

Box connector will crawl content from Box repository. The connector will retrieve the supported elements using the RESTful API (Content API Basics 2.0 version), for authentication will use Box API (that uses OAuth 2).

* Note that the Box connector is not part of Aspire CWS bundle, but may be purchased separately.

Supported elements:

  • 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

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)
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