Box Input Tool

Download the tool from Alteryx Community.

In Designer, open the Box Tools YXI file. Note: To install the Box Input tool for all users, open the Designer app with administrator credentials.

Select the Box Input tool to navigate to open the configuration panel.

You can either set up a connection or enter your credential details in the left side panel.

You can choose from following authentication methods:

1. Sign in via Internet Browser–a pop-up window displays to grant access to Box.

2. Get files from URL–a pop-up window displays to grant access to Box.

3. Provide Access Token–authenticate with an access token generated to call for your account without going through the authorization flow.

4. JSON Web Token–select a file and enter User Account ID to authenticate.

   You can also choose to Connect through your own Box application with the client ID and secret.

Select Connect.

Choose the files collection from the Collections dropdown.

To select the file or folder to read the data, you can enter full file or folder path in the File Path text box. Use Search to find the file with its full name with extension, or select a file from tree view.

If you want to process a file of a file type that Box Input doesn’t support or if you want to keep an offline copy of a file, select Download file locally for later processing and choose the location to save the file. The default location is %TEMP%.

Select Include Subfolders to apply the tool configuration to all subfolders in the selected folder. This might increase workflow run time.

In the Options tab, choose the File Format. Option fields are updated based on the selected file extension.