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Box

Box is a cloud content management platform that enables secure file sharing, collaboration, and workflow automation for businesses of all sizes, providing enterprise-grade security and compliance features for content storage and management.

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Power end-to-end data operations for your Box storage with Nexla. Our bi-directional Box connector makes it simple to ingest data from and deliver data to any Box location. Nexla automatically organizes ingested data into ready-to-use, reusable data products you can transform, validate, move, and manage at scale, all with no coding required. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Box workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: File System

SourceDestination

  • Universal file support for any file format including CSV, JSON, Parquet, Avro, and custom binary formats
  • Incremental processing with file change detection and delta sync to process only new or modified files
  • Schema inference that automatically detects file structure and creates appropriate data schemas

Authenticate​

This section provides step-by-step instructions for creating a new Box credential in Nexla.

  • After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

Configure the Credential​

  1. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

    Resource Descriptions

    Resource descriptions should provide information about the resource purpose, data freshness, etc. that can help the owner and other users efficiently understand and utilize the resource.

  2. Enter or select the following information in the displayed fields:

    Resource Descriptions

    Resource descriptions should provide information about the resource purpose, data freshness, etc. that can help the owner and other users efficiently understand and utilize the resource.

Save the Credential​

  1. Once all of the relevant steps in the above sections have been completed, click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay to save the configured credential.

  2. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation and can be selected for use with a new data source or destination.

Use as a data source​

To ingest data from a Box location, follow the instructions in Section 2 of Common Setup for File-Based Storage Systems.

Use as a destination​

To send data to a Box location, follow the instructions in Section 3 of Common Setup for File-Based Storage Systems.