Box Developer Newsletter: July 2017
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Register Now for BoxWorks 2017
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BoxWorks is our annual conference that brings together Box customers, users, partners, developers, and other technology leaders to learn what's new with Box and discuss the future of work. This year, you can join hundreds of other developers from around the world for two days of keynotes, developer-focused sessions, demos, developer training, and more. Whether you're a Box Admin looking to learn more about using our APIs, a partner looking to integrate with Box, or an app developer building custom applications for your business, BoxWorks is your opportunity to learn our APIs and get an exclusive look at the latest from the Box Platform.
You can use code 17worksdevcon for $400 off registration.
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Introducing Box UI Elements
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Box UI Elements are modular Javascript components that let you bring parts of the Box user interface to your own apps and customize it to fit the look and feel of your app. With the Box UI Elements, you can design amazing user experiences with content and bring new apps to market in a fraction of the time. Box UI Elements are available as Javascript libraries or as packages on NPM.
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Introducing Token Exchange for Box Platform
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We've introduced a new capability of the /token endpoint of the Box Content API that allows developers to exchange higher-scoped tokens for more granularly-scoped tokens with a mechanism called Token Exchange. Token Exchange was designed to support the Box UI Elements, which require an access token to be passed to the client in order to be initialized.
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Leveraging client events with Box Content Preview
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As part of the UI Elements, we announced Box Content Preview, a Javascript library to display interactive viewers for documents, images, audio files, video files, and more in your apps. Beyond just displaying files, Box Content Preview fires client-side events that you can use to track what users do with content in your apps, like playing or pausing videos or turning pages in a PDF. Learn how you can use client events to learn even more about how your users interact with files in your apps.
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Opening Box's preview technology to developers
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We’re excited to announce that we’ve opened up the source code for our preview technology to allow third-party developers to build their own viewers for files stored in Box. These viewers can be added into our library viewers, supported by our web and mobile apps, as well as added to our Javascript library that can be leveraged by thousands of developers to build viewing experiences around your file types in their own apps.
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On December 1st, 2017, Box will end support for TLS 1.0 encryption protocol for connecting to the Box service. Users will be required to connect using browsers or applications that support TLS 1.1 or higher protocol, which Box already supports. Box is committed to continually helping our customers improve security by using the latest security protocols. Ending support for TLS 1.0 will help us maintain the highest security standards and safety of customer data.
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August Virtual API Office Hours
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Got questions about the Box API? Join us for an upcoming API office hours sessions on August 14th or August 28th at 1:00pm PST.
Whether you are running into an issue with our API or you want to know best practices for implementing a specific use case, you can ask us anything related to the Box API!
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Building a customer onboarding app with Box, Salesforce, DocParser, Twilio, and Stamplay
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David Majetic, an Enterprise Sales Engineer at Box, put together a quick tutorial for building an app for onboarding new customers. The application leverages several services in addition to Box Platform to power functionality like document upload, OCR, eSignature, SMS, and an integration with a CRM. In this example, David uses Stamplay, a low code platform, for integrating these various services without having to build any code himself.
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Pre-register for Box Developer Training
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This fall, we'll be launching a new training program for developers to learn the Box Platform and how to use our APIs to build applications and integrations. Sign up today to be notified when we launch.
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Seeking Box Developers in the Nordics
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Know any Box Developers based in the Nordics? Help out a fellow Box Developer looking for other developers building with Box in Norway.
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Check Out the Box Developer Forum
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Got a question about the Box API? Thousands of developers use the Box Developer Forum to find common solutions and ask questions about the Box API. You can find other Box Developers who can help you or receive help from the Box Developer Relations Team.
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