Lets say,
I have added a specific tag to specific folders within /path/to/specific/folders. Lets say the tag is "red".
I need some of the information that is returned when I take the following action ( of course with real api key, auth token, and folder id):
https://www.box.net/api/1.0/rest?acti...
This of course returns everything within that folder. I don't want everything. I only want the folders that have been tagged, "red".
Allowing us to filter those results with tags would dramatically improve the functionality of the Box API. I can't believe this sort of functionality doesn't already exist. I am in desperate need of it.
Last night I was playing around with the API for the first time and I tryed to take this action by using the following url:
First I used the export_tags function to get a list of tags with id #'s then
https://www.box.net/api/1.0/rest?acti...
At first I thought it worked, but then I realized that the tag_id=939937 part of the url was just ignored.
It would also be great to be able to specify multiple tags, and how about the ability to define our own simple params instead of the one size fits all simple param
Who agrees?
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Hi Chip,
Thanks for suggesting this - certainly makes sense, and I appreciate the feedback. I'll discuss this with the rest of the team.
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Is there any update to this?
The searching in the api is not very robust. Complex searches are not easy to do and really the only way to get the job done is by downloading the entire tree and then using some xml querying to get the actual documents you want to return.
The company I'm working with uses tags and would love to be able to have very specific search queries based on the tags. IE: (Tag1 == 'A' AND Tag2 == 'B') OR Tag3 == '4'. -
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