Triggers & Actions

Use Box as a trigger to kick off a workflow, or use it as an action to do something automatically in your workflow.

Triggers

  • Box Webhook

    Triggers when Box file or folder events occur. Real-time notifications for Box events.

Actions

  • Get Folder Information

    Retrieves details for a folder, including the first 100 entries in the folder

  • List Folder Items

    Retrieves a page of items in a folder (files, folders, and web links)

  • Create Folder

    Creates a new empty folder within the specified parent folder

  • Copy Folder

    Creates a copy of a folder within a destination folder

  • Update Folder

    Updates a folder (rename, move, update description, tags, shared links, etc.)

  • Delete Folder

    Deletes a folder, either permanently or by moving it to the trash

  • Get File Information

    Retrieves the details about a file

  • Get File Thumbnail

    Retrieves a thumbnail, or smaller image representation, of a file

  • Copy File

    Creates a copy of a file

  • Update File

    Updates a file (rename, move, update description, tags, shared links, lock)

  • Delete File

    Deletes a file, either permanently or by moving it to the trash

  • Get Comment

    Retrieves the message and metadata for a specific comment

  • List File Comments

    Retrieves a list of comments for a file

  • Create Comment

    Adds a comment by the user to a specific file, or as a reply to another comment

  • Update Comment

    Update the message of a comment

  • Delete Comment

    Permanently deletes a comment

  • Get Collaboration

    Retrieves a single collaboration

  • Create Collaboration

    Adds a collaboration for a single user or group to a file or folder

  • Update Collaboration

    Updates a collaboration (role, status, expiration, etc.)

  • Delete Collaboration

    Deletes a single collaboration