Box Developers Newsletter: August 2016


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August Product Updates

For a complete log of all our recent API changes, please see our API Changelog.

Webhooks V2 Now in Public Beta

The Webhooks v2 endpoints in the Box API defines GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE methods you can use to create webhooks, define the events that trigger notifications, set the URLs they communicate with, and remove them when they are no longer needed.

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Legal Holds endpoint is Now Available

Legal Holds are now available as part of Box Governance. With Legal Holds, Box Governance customers can now preserve content in place to kick off the eDiscovery process in the face of litigation. Developers can create and manage Legal Holds via the Box API.

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Annotations Now Available in Public Beta

Annotations are a new feature in our file preview experience that allows users of your app to add point comments and highlight text directly on an embedded file preview.

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From the Platform Blog

Check out all of the recent posts on the Box Platform blog.

Image Recognition and Box Platform

Learn how let a user take a photo, automatically recognize what is in that photo, and then enable the user to search across these photos based on keywords.


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Dropzone.js and Box Platform

Learn how to add drag and drop upload to a web app.


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Build a Secure Onboarding App with Box Platform

Learn how to build a user onboarding application on Box Platform.

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