Page Comparison

Field Name

Field Variable

Status

Notes

Client ID 

clientID

Required

From your Box Developers Console or can be found in boxAppSettings section of {{public key}}_config.json 

Client Secret 

clientSecret

Required

From your Box Developers Console or can be found in boxAppSettings section of {{public key}}_config.json 

Public Key ID 

publicKeyID

Required

From your manually generated key pair or in boxAppSettings section of {{public key}}_config.json 

Private Key 

privateKey

Required

From your manually generated key pair or in boxAppSettings section of {{public key}}_config.json 

When you download the {{public key}}_config.json, the private key is displayed in the privatekey element. It looks something like this: 

"privateKey": "-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----\xYZXYZxYZXyzxyzx.....................A0b0CAB0cAbCaBcabcabCA+B\noi0=\n-----END ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----\n",

You only need to add the values between the quotation marks. In the above example, you would add the following as the private key:

-----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----\xYZXYZxYZXyzxyzx.....................A0b0CAB0cAbCaBcabcabCA+B\noi0=\n-----END ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----\n

Enterprise ID 

enterpriseID

Required when an Account ID is not used

From your Box Developers Console or can be found in boxAppSettings section of {{public key}}_config.json 

The Enterprise ID will list content for all users on your connection root

Note: Cannot be combined with Account ID; options are mutually exclusive

Account ID

user_id

Required when an Enterprise ID is not used

The Account ID will impersonate a single account

Note: Cannot be combined with Enterprise ID; options are mutually exclusive

Password

passphrase

Required

From your manually generated key pair or in boxAppSettings section of {{public key}}_config.json 

Note: Auto-generated by Box when created via the download key pair from your Box Developers Console