Folders

Create, update, delete, and query the available Folders in Box.

Table Specific Information

Select

If you search for folders without specifying any condition in the WHERE Clause, by default only the folders that are at most 5 levels deep from the root folder will be returned. You can change the default depth value in the connection string; e.g. DirectoryRetrievalDepth=10.

SELECT * FROM Folders

To search all the Folders in your enterprise, query the Folders table with the column SearchTerms.

SELECT * FROM Folders WHERE SearchTerms LIKE '%untitled%'

To search all the Folders within a specific folder, query the Folders table with the ParentId column..

SELECT * FROM Folders WHERE ParentId = '12'

If you're authenticated as an administrator with user impersonation permissions, you can query folders from multiple user accounts:

SELECT * FROM Folders WHERE AsUserId IN (SELECT Id FROM Users)

Note: User impersonation has the following limitations:

The authenticated user cannot be impersonated unless that user is a service account.
If the authenticated user is a standard user account, they can only query folders associated with their account.
Folders shared with multiple users are only returned for one of the users.

Insert

You're required to specify the name of the Folder and also the Id of the parent Folder. Use 0 for the root Folder's ParentId.

INSERT INTO Folders (Name, ParentId, SharedLink, Description, Access, OwnedById) VALUES ('new folder', '0', 'http://sharedlink.com', 'example desc', 'open', '123')

Update

Any column where ReadOnly=False can be updated.

UPDATE Folders SET Description = 'example description', Access = 'open', SharedLink = 'http://sharedlink.com', OwnedById = '321', ParentId = '12', Name = 'no longer new folder'  WHERE Id = '123'

Delete

Folders can be deleted by providing an Id and issuing a DELETE statement.

DELETE FROM Folders WHERE Id = '123'

Columns


Name	Type	ReadOnly	Description
SearchTerms	String	True	Query to search the folders database.
Id [KEY]	String	True	The Id of the folder.
Name	String	False	The name of the folder.
Etag	String	True	The Etag of the folder
SequenceId	String	False	The sequence Id of the folder.
Description	String	False	The description of the folder.
Access	String	False	The email access of this folder to. The allowed values are open, collaborators.
Size	Integer	True	The size of the file.
CreatedAt	Datetime	True	The date the file was created at.
ModifiedAt	Datetime	True	The date the file was modified at.
TrashedAt	Datetime	True	The date the folder was trashed at.
PurgedAt	Datetime	True	The date the folder was purged at.
ContentCreatedAt	Datetime	True	The date the content of the folder was created at.
ContentModifiedAt	Datetime	True	The date the content of the folder was modified at.
CreatedBy	String	True	The Id of the user that created the folder.
CreatedByName	String	True	The Name of the user that created the folder.
CreatedByLogin	String	True	The Login of the user that created the folder.
SharedLink	String	False	The Id of the user that created the folder.
ModifiedBy	String	True	The Id of the user that last modified the folder.
ModifiedByName	String	True	The Name of the user that last modified the folder.
ModifiedByLogin	String	True	The Login of the user that last modified the folder.
OwnedById	String	False	The Id user that owns the folder.
OwnedByName	String	True	The Name of the user that owns the folder.
OwnedByLogin	String	True	The Login of the user that owns the folder.
ParentId	String	False	The Id of the folder that contains the folder.
ItemStatus	String	True	The status of the folder.
Path	String	True	The full path of the folder.
AsUserId	String	False	The Id of the user you want to impersonate. Only works with Admin, Co-Admin and Service Accounts.

Pseudo-Columns

Pseudo column fields are used in the WHERE clause of SELECT statements and offer a more granular control over the tuples that are returned from the data source.


Name	Type	Description
Scope	String	The scope of the search.
ContentTypes	String	The content to search the query at, separated by commas. This can contain a mixture of the following: name, file_content, description, comments, tags.
OwnerUserIDs	String	The Ids of the owners to limit the search to, separated by a comma.
AncestorfolderIDs	String	The Ids of the folders to limit the search to, separated by a comma.

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