Create a Box Application

To index content from Box, you must create a Box application to represent the connector.

NOTE:

This procedure is subject to change. For information about creating a Box application, refer to the Box developer documentation.

To create a Box application

  1. Create a Box user account.
  2. Go to http://developers.box.com/.
  3. Click Create A Box Application.
  4. Give the application a name and click Create Application.
  5. In the OAuth2 parameters area, find and make a note of the client_id and client_secret. You will need these values to configure authentication.
  6. To use the OAuth configuration tool to configure OAuth authentication, ensure that the redirect_uri for the application matches the URL where you will run the OAuth configuration tool. By default this is http://localhost:7878/oauth.

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