Works with:
Fusion Connectors

Compatible with: 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1

Configure Box.com Tokens

The Box connector retrieves data from a Box.com cloud-based data repository. To fetch content from multiple Box users, you must create a Box app that uses OAuth 2.0 with JWT server authentication. For limited testing using a single user account, you can create a Box app that uses Standard OAuth 2.0 authentication.

This topic explains how to configure Box.com authorization, access, and refresh tokens.

Fusion supports two methods of authentication with the Box API:

  • JSON Web Token (JWT)

  • OAuth2

Box App Users Using JWT

Box.com has rather recently released a Box Developer Edition. The Box Developer Edition lets a user access an application without having to create their own Box account.

App Auth uses the JSON Web Token (JWT) authentication architecture to establish a trusted connection with Box, allowing an application to provision and manage a Box account while minimizing the number of logins for a user and authentication services to manage.

For this option, Fusion needs the inputs below to crawl your Box data.

Required options are highlighted.

UI Label,
API Name		 Description

JWT App User ID
f.fs.appUserId

The Developer Edition API App User ID that you want to crawl as.

JWT Public Key ID
f.fs.publicKeyId

The public key prefix registered in Box Auth that you want to use to authenticate with.

JWT Private Key
f.fs.privateKeyBase64

Base64-encoded JWT private key for the app user you want to authenticate as. (Fusion 5.0+ only.)

JWT Private Key File Path
f.fs.privateKeyFile

Path to the JWT private key file for the app user you want to authenticate as. (Prior to Fusion 5.0 only.)

JWT Private Key File Password
f.fs.privateKeyPassword

The password that secures the public key.
Tip
 The biggest advantage to using the JWT App Auth Users approach is that you don’t have to generate new refresh tokens. The public/private key file combination remain valid indefinitely.

Authentication Using OAuth 2.0

For limited testing using a single user account, you can create a Box app that uses Standard OAuth 2.0 authentication.

  1. Log in to your Box developer account as the Admin.

    1. Open the Box Developers web portal.

    2. In the top right corner, click Log In.

  2. Open the page for creating a new app and click Create New App.

  3. Click Custom App, and then click Next.

  4. Click Standard OAuth 2.0 (User Authentication), and then click Next.

  5. Name your app, and then click Create App. The name must be globally unique across all apps created by all Box users.

  6. Click View Your App.

  7. On the Configuration page:

    1. Click the Authentication Method Standard OAuth 2.0 (User Authentication).

    2. Set the Redirect URI to http://localhost or http://0.0.0.0. This address is not used by Fusion, but cannot be left blank.

    3. Click Save Changes.