Box

Enterprise cloud storage management.

What it does

Files and folders in Box. Used by clients with document-heavy compliance work, where Box rather than Drive is the standard.

What you need

An account with Box that you are entitled to authorise, and a moment in a browser. You do not need an API key: connecting sends you to Box's own sign-in and consent screen, and what comes back is an authorisation rather than a password. RAiN never sees your password, and the authorisation is held by our integration provider on our instructions — see the Integrations & Connected Accounts notice for what that means.

Connecting it

Connections belong to one project. A system built for one client never acts on another client's account, and a package handed to a business runs on theirs — so the same integration is connected again, separately, for each project that needs it.

Open the project and stay on the Visual Editor tab.
Open the Tools & Integrations rail on the right.
Find Box and press Connect.
Authorise in the window that opens, then come back. The rail will show it as connected.

The consent link is good for about twenty minutes. If you leave it and come back tomorrow, press Connect again rather than reusing the old tab.

To stop it, press Disconnect. That ends this project's access immediately. You can also revoke it from Box's own security settings, which works even if you never open RAiN again.

What an agent can do with it

15 actions are available once connected, 1 of which delete things and are marked where they appear. They appear in the tool list for this project only — a project that has not connected Box is never offered them.

Action	What it does
`box_create_box_sign_request`	Create Box Sign Request
`box_create_collaboration`	Create collaboration
`box_create_comment`	Create comment
`box_create_folder`	Create folder
`box_delete_file`	Delete file ⚠️ deletes things
`box_download_file`	Download file
`box_find_file_for_shared_link`	Find file for shared link
`box_get_file_information`	Get file information
`box_get_folder`	Get folder information
`box_list_file_comments`	List file comments
`box_list_items_in_folder`	List items in folder
`box_request_access_token`	Request access token
`box_search_for_content`	Search for content
`box_update_file`	Update file
…	and 1 more, all listed in the rail

Tick the ones an agent may use, or choose one in an Action step to run it exactly as written with no model involved.

A worked example

A firm's agent files signed documents into a client folder and creates a shared link for the client, without anybody moving files by hand.

When it goes wrong

Sharing settings differ from Drive. A link created by the connected account inherits that account's default access, which may be narrower than you expect.