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Box connector overview - Amazon Q Business

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Box connector overview

The following table gives an overview of the Amazon Q Business Box connector and its supported features.

Category Feature Support
Security Authentication type Token with JWT Auth by Box
Authentication credentials

  • Client ID

  • Client secret

  • Public Key ID

  • Private Key

  • Pass Phrase

Important

Admin privileges required.
Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Identity crawling Yes
VPC Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata Yes
Entities Yes. The following entities are supported:

  • Files

  • Comments

  • Tasks

  • Web links

See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.
Field mappings Yes. Supports both default and custom field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Yes. The following filters are supported:

  • Include web links

  • Include comments

  • Include tasks

  • Include/exclude by file name

  • Include/exclude by file type

  • Include/exclude by file path
Sync mode Supports full and incremental sync.
File types Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.