Adding a Box repository to a desktop

Add one or more Box repositories a desktop to enable users to access files in Box from their desktop.

About this task

You can add a Box repository to an IBM Content Navigator desktop, and you can use the Box repository as the authentication repository. IBM Content Navigator does not allow adding server authenticated Box repositories to desktops.

For your desktop authentication settings, if you specify a Box repository that uses OAuth2 authentication, when a user opens the desktop, the browser is redirected to Box.

If the user is already logged in to Box, the user must grant access to connect IBM Content Navigator to Box.
If the user is not logged in to Box, the user must enter a valid Box user account and password to grant access to connect IBM Content Navigator to Box.

Procedure

To add a Box repository to a desktop:

Open the administration tool in the web client.
Click Desktops, and create a new desktop, or select a desktop to edit.
On the Repositories page, select the Box repository from the available repositories list, and add it to the selected repositories list.
Save your changes.
If you want to use this Box repository as the authenticating repository for the desktop, on the General page, for the desktop authentication settings, select the Box repository.

What to do next

If you enabled Box share services on a Box repository that you added to the desktop, the Box Share and Delete Box Share menu actions are automatically added to the default context menu. If you create a new custom context menu by copying the default context menu, the Box Share and Delete Box Share menu actions are automatically added to the new custom context menu. However, these menu actions are not automatically added to any custom context menus that you created before Version 2.0.3 Fix Pack 6. To add the menu actions, edit your custom context menu, select the Box Share and Delete Box Share menu actions from the available actions list, and add them to the selected actions list.