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Operations with Box objects

You can use a Box connection to perform the following operations with Box objects:
Box sources

Read data from CSV files in Box

You can specify Box soures in mappings and mapping tasks to read data from CSV files in Box.
Specify a Box connection that connects to the Hosted Agent or the Secure Agent as the source connection and specify the source object.

Search Box objects

You can specify Box sources in mappings and mapping tasks to search Box objects.
To search objects to Box, perform the following tasks:
When you specify Entities as the source object, the Secure Agent searches all objects in the root folder on the Secure Agent machine based on the URI request parameters you specify in the Box connections.
Specify the search string in the URI Request Parameters field using the following syntax:
query=search_string;content_types=<name|description|file_content|comments|tags;limit=<number>;offset=<number>
For example, use the following parameters to search a Box object: query="employee";content_types=name;limit=200;offset=0
The following table describes the URI Request Parameters field options:
Options
Description
Query
Searches the Box objects based on the word or phrase you specify. When you specify a phrase, verify that you enclose the phrase in single quote.
content_types
Specifies the scope of the search. You can use one of the following values:
  • - Name - Searches based on the names of Box objects.
  • - Description - Searches based on the description associated with Box objects.
  • - File_content - Searches based on contents in the Box objects.
  • - Comments - Searches based on comments associated with Box objects.
  • - Tags - Searches based on tags associated with Box objects.