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Extend Access to External collaborators using Box API.

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damera_avinash

Hi All,

 

We are trying to extend the Access to External collaborators using Box API.

 

I just want to check if this technically feasible using Box API.

 

Any one please suggest the best approach . We are trying to automate the extend the Access to External collaborators using Box API. Any help is appreciated.

 

Regards.

Avinash.

Box Consultant.

 

 

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  • nadaoneal

    YES, you can do this. The documentation for the Collaboration object is here. You can add external collaborators either by ID (if they already exist) or via email, e.g.:

     

    curl https://api.box.com/2.0/collaborations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE" \
-d '{"item": { "id": "YOUR_FOLDER_ID_HERE", "type": "folder"}, "accessible_by": { "login": "SOME_EMAIL", "type": "user" }, "role": "ROLE_OF_YOUR_CHOICE"}' \
-X POST

    ALSO, I recently learned that the collaboration object is fully supported in the Python SDK, though it's not documented. You just have to search the github repo to see that Collaboration object support is defined here, and the add_collaborator function is defined in folder.py. 

     

    A usage example is in example.py: 

     

        root_folder = client.folder(folder_id='0')
    collab_folder = root_folder.create_subfolder('collab folder')
    try:
        print('Folder {0} created'.format(collab_folder.get()['name']))
        collaboration = collab_folder.add_collaborator('SOME_EMAIL', CollaborationRole.VIEWER)
        print('Created a collaboration')

     

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  • KoenThijssen

    Hi,

     

    Isn't this how you add collaborators, whereas the question was how to extend collaborations?

     

    I am wondering how to extend the collaboration with external users using Python SDK. Creating folders and adding collaborators works but now I want to extend the collaborations. Is there a way to do this using Python SDK? 

     

    Below the what I tried using. 

     

    collaborations = client.folder(folder_id=folder_id).get_collaborations()
    for collab in collaborations:
        collab_role = collab.role
        collab_id = collab.id
        if collab_role == 'editor':
           role = CollaborationRole.EDITOR
        else:
           role = None
        collaboration = client.collaboration(collab_id=str(collab_id))
        updated_collaboration = collaboration.update_info(role)


    I would prefer to not remove collaborations and adding them again if that's possible.

    Suggestion are very welcome!

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