Box upload file

Upload a file to Box.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
File to upload

Select one of the following items.

  • Existing SharePoint content: Use this option to upload an existing file from the current site. Enter a site-relative URL to the file.

    Example: Shared%20Documents/statement.docx

  • Content: Use this option to upload a file. Enter the text to insert into the file to be uploaded.

    For example, insert a reference to the initiator.

    Note: The file type is determined by the extension specified for the file name.

  • Current item (option available for workflows associated with lists): Use this option to upload the current file that the workflow is running on.
Destination folder

Enter the destination folder for the uploaded file to be sent to.
Destination name

Specify the filename to use on Box.
Overwrite file

Choose whether to overwrite a file if a file with the same name already exists in the destination.
Authorizing user

Specify an email address to receive the authorization request for the action. External email addresses can be used.

  1. When the action runs, an email with the below content is sent to the email address selected for the Authorizing user.

    2. From: notification@nintexlive.com

    Subject: Contains phrases "Nintex Live" and "Request authorization".

    Contents: Contains links to authorize or deny the operation.

  2. When the link to provide authorization is clicked the user is prompted to do the following:
    1. Log in to the external service.
    2. Allow Nintex Live to access the external service.
    3. Option to stop receiving future authorization requests for the service.

If the authorizationis not provided for one of the following reasons, the workflow is suspended.

  • The authorizing user denies the authorization request by:
    • Clicking the deny link in the email received.
    • Not allowing Nintex live to access the external service.

    The workflow is suspended with the error "The service request has been denied".

  • Authorization is not provided within 7 days after the authorization request is sent.
    • The authorizing user never clicks the authorize link in the email message.
    • The authorizing user initiates the process by clicking the link but does not complete all steps. For example, the authorizing user logs in to the external service but does not complete the step to allow Nintex Live to access the external service.

    • The workflow is suspended with the error "The service request has expired".
Upload successful

Specify a Boolean variable to store whether or not the upload was successful. Returns "Yes" if the file was successfully uploaded.

Uploaded file ID

Specify a text variable to store whether or not an ID is created for the uploaded file. Returns the ID for the file uploaded.

Uploaded file URL

Specify a workflow variable to store the uploaded file URL.

For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.