

# Connecting Box to Amazon Q Business
<a name="box-connector"></a>

Box is a cloud storage service that offers file hosting capabilities. You can connect your Box instance to Amazon Q Business—using either the AWS Management Console, CLI, or the [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_CreateDataSource.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_CreateDataSource.html) API—and create an Amazon Q web experience.

**Topics**
+ [Known limitations for the Box connector](box-limitations.md)
+ [Box connector overview](box-overview.md)
+ [Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Box](box-prereqs.md)
+ [Connecting Amazon Q Business to Box using the console](box-console.md)
+ [Connecting Amazon Q Business to Box using APIs](box-api.md)
+ [How Amazon Q Business connector crawls Box ACLs](box-user-management.md)
+ [Box data source connector field mappings](box-field-mappings.md)
+ [IAM role for Box connector](box-iam-role.md)

**Learn more**
+ For an overview of the Amazon Q web experience creation process using IAM Identity Center, see [Configuring an application using IAM Identity Center](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/create-application.html).
+ For an overview of the Amazon Q web experience creation process using AWS Identity and Access Management, see [Configuring an application using IAM](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/create-application-iam.html).
+ For an overview of connector features, see [Data source connector concepts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html).
+ For information about connector configuration best practices, see [Connector configuration best practices](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-best-practices.html).

# Known limitations for the Box connector
<a name="box-limitations"></a>

The Amazon Q Box connector has the following known limitations:
+ Crawling data from external folders is not supported.
+ When Access Control Lists (ACLs) are enabled, the "Sync only new or modified content" option is not available due to Box API limitations. We recommend using "Full sync" or "New, modified, or deleted content sync" modes instead, or disable ACLs if you need to use this sync mode.

# Box connector overview
<a name="box-overview"></a>

The following table gives an overview of the Amazon Q Business Box connector and its supported features.


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[\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/box-overview.html)

# Prerequisites for connecting Amazon Q Business to Box
<a name="box-prereqs"></a>

Before you begin, make sure that you have completed the following prerequisites.

**In Box, make sure you have:**
+ A Box Enterprise or Box Enterprise Plus account.
+ Created a Box custom app in the Box Developer Console and configured it to use **Server Authentication (with JWT)**. 
+ Set your **App Access Level** to **App \$1 Enterprise Access** and allowed it to **Make API calls using the as-user header**.
+ Used the admin user to add the following **Application Scopes** in your Box app:
  + Write all files and folders stored in a Box
  + Manage users
  + Manage groups
  + Manage enterprise properties
+ Generated and downloaded Public/Private key pair including a client ID, a client secret, a public key ID, private key ID, a pass phrase, and an enterprise ID to use as authentication credentials. See [Public and private keypair](https://developer.box.com/guides/authentication/jwt/jwt-setup/#public-and-private-key-pair) for more details.
+ Copied your Box enterprise ID either from your Box Developer Console settings or from your Box app. For example, *801234567*.

**In your AWS account, make sure you have:**
+ Created a Amazon Q Business application.
+ Created a [Amazon Q Business retriever and added an index](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/select-retriever.html).
+ Created an [IAM role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/iam-roles.html#iam-roles-ds) for your data source and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.
+ Stored your Box authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the Amazon Q API, noted the ARN of the secret.
**Note**  
If you’re a console user, you can create the IAM role and Secrets Manager secret as part of configuring your Amazon Q application on the console.

For a list of things to consider while configuring your data source, see [ Data source connector configuration best practices](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-best-practices.html).

**Note**  
For more information on connecting Box to Amazon Q Business, see [Discover insights from Box with the Amazon Q Box connector](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/discover-insights-from-box-with-the-amazon-q-box-connector/) in the *AWS Machine Learning Blog*.

# Connecting Amazon Q Business to Box using the console
<a name="box-console"></a>

The following procedure outlines how to connect Amazon Q Business to Box using the AWS Management Console.

**Connecting Amazon Q to Box**

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Q Business console.

1. From the left navigation menu, choose **Data sources**.

1. From the **Data sources** page, choose **Add data source**.

1. Then, on the **Add data sources** page, from **Data sources**, add the **Box** data source to your Amazon Q application.

1. Then, on the **Box** data source page, enter the following information:

1. **Name and description**, do the following:
   + For **Data source name** – Name your data source for easy tracking.
**Note**  
You can include hyphens (-) but not spaces. Maximum of 1,000 alphanumeric characters.
   + **Description – *optional*** – Add an optional description for your data source. This text is viewed only by Amazon Q Business administrators and can be edited later.

1. **Source** – Enter your **Box enterprise ID**.

1. **Authorization** – Amazon Q Business crawls ACL information by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents your end users have access to. If supported for your connector, you can manage ACLs by selecting ** Enable ACLs ** to enable ACLs or **Disable ACLs** to disable them. To manage ACLs, you need specific IAM permissions. See [Grant permission to create data sources with ACLs disabled](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/setting-up.html#DisableAclOnDataSource) for more details. See [Authorization](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-authorization) for more details.

1. In **Authentication** – Choose to create an **AWS Secrets Manager secret** and then enter the following information for your **AWS Secrets Manager secret**.

   1. **Secret name** – A name for your secret.

   1. **Client ID** – The client ID provided by Box.

   1. **Client Secret** – The client secret provided by Box.

   1. **Public Key ID** – Your Box public key ID.

   1. **Private Key** – The private key provided by Box.

   1. **Pass Phrase** – The pass phrase you use to log into your Box account.

1. **Identity crawler** – Amazon Q crawls identity information from your data source by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents end users have access to. For more information, see [Identity crawler](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-identity-crawler).

1. **IAM role** – Choose an existing IAM role or create an IAM role to access your repository credentials and index content.
**Note**  
Creating a new service IAM role is recommended.

   For more information, see [IAM role](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/box-connector.html#box-iam).

1. **Configure VPC and security group – *optional*** – Choose whether you want to use a VPC. If you do, enter the following information:

   1. **Subnets** – Select up to 6 repository subnets that define the subnets and IP ranges the repository instance uses in the selected VPC.

   1. **VPC security groups** – Choose up to 10 security groups that allow access to your data source. Ensure that the security group allows incoming traffic from Amazon EC2 instances and devices outside your VPC. For databases, security group instances are required. 

   For more information, see [VPC](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-vpc).

1. In **Sync scope**, enter the following information:

   1. **Select additional kinds of content to index** – Choose whether to include **Web links**, **Comments**, and **Tasks**.
**Note**  
Box files are indexed by default.

   1. For **Maximum file size** – Specify the file size limit in MBs that Amazon Q will crawl. Amazon Q will crawl only the files within the size limit you define. The default file size is 50MB. The maximum file size should be greater than 0MB and less than or equal to 50MB.

   1. **Additional configuration – *optional*** – Configure the following settings:
      + **Regex patterns** – Regular expression patterns to include or exclude certain files. You can add up to 100 patterns.

   1. **Advanced settings**

      **Document deletion safeguard** - *optional*–To safeguard your documents from deletion during a sync job, select **On** and enter an integer between 0 - 100. If the percentage of documents to be deleted in your sync job exceeds the percentage you selected, the delete phase will be skipped and no documents from this data source will be deleted from your index. For more information, see [Document deletion safeguard](connector-concepts.md#document-deletion-safeguard).

1. For **Sync mode**, choose how you want to update your index when your data source content changes. When you sync your data source with Amazon Q for the first time, all content is synced by default.
   + **Full sync** – Sync all content regardless of the previous sync status.
   + **New, modified, or deleted content sync** – Sync only new, modified, and deleted documents.

1. In **Sync run schedule**, for **Frequency** – Choose how often Amazon Q will sync with your data source. For more details, see [Sync run schedule](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-sync-run). To learn how to start a data sync job, see [Starting data source connector sync jobs](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/supported-datasource-actions.html#start-datasource-sync-jobs).

1. **Tags - *optional*** – Add tags to search and filter your resources or track your AWS costs. See [Tags](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/tagging.html) for more details.

1. **Field mappings** – A list of data source document attributes to map to your index fields.
**Note**  
Add or update the fields from the **Data source details** page after you finish adding your data source. You can choose from two types of fields: 

   1. **Default** – Automatically created by Amazon Q on your behalf based on common fields in your data source. You can't edit these.

   1. **Custom** – Automatically created by Amazon Q on your behalf based on common fields in your data source. You can edit these. You can also create and add new custom fields.
**Note**  
Support for adding custom fields varies by connector. You won't see the **Add field** option if your connector doesn't support adding custom fields.

   For more information, see [Field mappings](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-field-mappings).

1. In **Data source details**, choose **Sync now** to allow Amazon Q to begin syncing (crawling and ingesting) data from your data source. When the sync job finishes, your data source is ready to use.
**Note**  
View CloudWatch logs for your data source sync job by selecting **View CloudWatch logs**. If you encounter a `Resource not found exception` error, wait and try again as logs may not be available immediately.  
You can also view a detailed document-level report by selecting **View Report**. This report shows the status of each document during the crawl, sync, and index stages, including any errors. If the report is empty for an in-progress job, check back later as data is emitted to the report as events occur during the sync process.  
For more information, see [Troubleshooting data source connectors](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/troubleshooting-data-sources.html#troubleshooting-data-sources-not-indexed).

# Connecting Amazon Q Business to Box using APIs
<a name="box-api"></a>

You use the [CreateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_CreateDataSource.html) action to connect a data source to your Amazon Q application. You can also use the [UpdateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_UpdateDataSource.html) action to modify an existing data source configuration.

Then, you use the `configuration` parameter to provide a JSON blob that conforms the AWS-defined JSON schema.

For an example of the API request, see [CreateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_CreateDataSource.html) and [UpdateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_UpdateDataSource.html) in the Amazon Q API Reference.

## Box JSON schema
<a name="box-json"></a>

The following is the Box JSON schema:

```
{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "connectionConfiguration": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "enterpriseId": {
              "type": "string",
              "minLength": 1,
              "maxLength": 64
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "enterpriseId"
          ]
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata"
      ]
    },
    "repositoryConfigurations": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "file": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "STRING_LIST",
                        "DATE",
                        "LONG"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        },
        "task": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "STRING_LIST",
                        "DATE",
                        "LONG"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        },
        "comment": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "STRING_LIST",
                        "DATE",
                        "LONG"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        },
        "webLink": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": [
                {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "indexFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "indexFieldType": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "enum": [
                        "STRING",
                        "STRING_LIST",
                        "DATE",
                        "LONG"
                      ]
                    },
                    "dataSourceFieldName": {
                      "type": "string"
                    },
                    "dateFieldFormat": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "indexFieldName",
                    "indexFieldType",
                    "dataSourceFieldName"
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "isCrawlAcl": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "fieldForUserId": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "crawlComments": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "crawlTasks": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "crawlWebLinks": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "inclusionPatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        },
        "exclusionPatterns": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "required": []
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "BOX"
    },
    "enableIdentityCrawler": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "syncMode": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "FULL_CRAWL",
        "FORCED_FULL_CRAWL",
        "CHANGE_LOG"
      ]
    },
    "secretArn": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 20,
      "maxLength": 2048
    }
  },
  "version": {
    "type": "string",
    "anyOf": [
      {
        "pattern": "1.0.0"
      }
    ]
  },
  "required": [
    "connectionConfiguration",
    "repositoryConfigurations",
    "syncMode",
    "additionalProperties",
    "secretArn",
    "type",
    "enableIdentityCrawler"

  ]
}
```

The following table provides information about important JSON keys to configure.


| Configuration | Description | 
| --- | --- | 
| connectionConfiguration | Configuration information for the endpoint for the data source. | 
| repositoryEndpointMetadata | The endpoint information for the data source. | 
| enterpriseId | The Box enterprise id. | 
| repositoryConfigurations | Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings. | 
|  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/box-api.html)  | A list of objects that map the attributes or field names of your Box files, tasks, comments, and webLinks to Amazon Q index field names. | 
| additionalProperties | Additional configuration options for your content in your data source. | 
| maxFileSizeInMegaBytes | Specify the maximum single file size limit in MBs that Amazon Q will crawl. Amazon Q will crawl only the files within the size limit you define. The default file size is 50MB. The maximum file size should be greater than 0MB and less than or equal to 50MB. | 
| isCrawlAcl | Specify true to crawl access control information from documents.  Amazon Q Business crawls ACL information by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents your end users have access to. See [Authorization](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-authorization) for more details.  | 
| fieldForUserId | Specify field to use for UserId for ACL crawling. | 
| crawlComments | Specify true to crawl assets. | 
| crawlTasks | Specify true to crawl pages. | 
| crawlWebLinks | Specify true to crawl pages. | 
|  [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/box-api.html)  | A list of regular expression patterns to include or exclude specific content from your Box data source. Content that matches the patterns are included in the index. Content that doesn't match the patterns are excluded from the index. If content matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the content isn't included in the index. | 
| type | The type of data source. Specify BOX as your data source type. | 
| enableIdentityCrawler | Specify true to use the Amazon Q identity crawler to sync identity/principal information on users and groups with access to specific documents.  Amazon Q Business crawls identity information from your data source by default to ensure responses are generated only from documents end users have access to. For more information, see [Identity crawler](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-concepts.html#connector-identity-crawler).  | 
| syncMode |  Specify whether Amazon Q should update your index by syncing all documents or only new, modified, and deleted documents. You can choose between the following options: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/box-api.html)  | 
| secretArn |  The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an AWS Secrets Manager secret that contains the key-value pairs required to connect to your Box. The secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys: <pre>{<br />    "clientID": "client-id",<br />    "clientSecret": "client-secret",<br />    "publicKeyID": "public-key-id",<br />    "privateKey": "private-key",<br />    "passphrase": "pass-phrase"<br />}</pre>  | 
| version | The version of this template that's currently supported. | 

# How Amazon Q Business connector crawls Box ACLs
<a name="box-user-management"></a>

Connectors support crawling ACL and identity information where applicable based on the data source. If you index documents without ACLs, all documents are considered public. Indexing documents with ACLs ensures data security.

Amazon Q Business supports crawling ACLs for document security by default.

**Roles/permissions**: The Box connector translates Box permissions into ACLs that are compatible with Amazon Q Business. There are seven primary roles with permissions:
+ Co-owner - Has full control, can change advanced folder settings
+ Editor - Has read/write access, can view, download, edit, delete, and manage sharing.
+ Viewer - Has read-only access, can preview and download
+ Uploader - Has limited write access, can only upload and see names
+ Viewer Uploader - A combination of Viewer and Uploader capabilities
+ Previewer - Has limited read access, can only preview items
+ Previewer Uploader - A combination of Previewer and Uploader capabilities

**Permission Inheritance**: Files/subfolders inherit permissions from parent folders by default. Permissions follow a "waterfall" design where individuals have access to the folder they are invited into and any subfolders beneath it. Changing permissions on subfolders will result in an error because collaboration is only changeable at the item where it was created.

**Identity Crawling**: Individual user and group synchronization is supported via email addresses. Each user gets a unique user ID, even if recreated with the same email address. Permissions are tied to user IDs, not email addresses.

Change Management: ACL changes are supported in change log mode, including collaboration invites, accepts, and role changes.

Failure handling: The connector implements a fail-close approach for API failures, with rate limiting handled through queue-based wait time with exponential backoff. Documents are skipped from ingestion rather than being made publicly accessible when permission-related issues occur.

For more information, see [Key data source connector concepts](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/-connector-app.html#-connector-key-concepts).

# Box data source connector field mappings
<a name="box-field-mappings"></a>

To improve retrieved results and customize the end user chat experience, Amazon Q Business enables you to map document attributes from your data sources to fields in your Amazon Q index.

Amazon Q offers two kinds of attributes to map to index fields:
+ **Reserved or default** – Reserved attributes are based on document attributes that commonly occur in most data. You can use reserved attributes to map commonly occurring document attributes in your data source to Amazon Q index fields.
+ **Custom** – You can create custom attributes to map document attributes that are unique to your data to Amazon Q index fields.

When you connect Amazon Q to a data source, Amazon Q automatically maps specific data source document attributes to fields within an Amazon Q index. If a document attribute in your data source doesn't have a attribute mapping already available, or if you want to map additional document attributes to index fields, use the custom field mappings to specify how a data source attribute maps to an Amazon Q index field. You create field mappings by editing your data source after your application and retriever are created.

To learn more about document attributes and how they work in Amazon Q, see [Document attributes and types in Amazon Q](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/doc-attributes.html).

**Important**  
Filtering using document attributes in chat is only supported through the API.

The Amazon Q Box connector supports the following entities and the associated reserved and custom attributes.

**Topics**
+ [Files and folders](#box-field-mappings-files-folders)
+ [Comments](#box-field-mappings-comments)
+ [Tasks](#box-field-mappings-tasks)
+ [Web links](#box-field-mappings-web-links)

## Files and folders
<a name="box-field-mappings-files-folders"></a>


| Box field name | Index field name | Description | Data type | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| bx\$1createdAt | \$1created\$1at | Default | Date | 
| bx\$1modifiedAt | \$1last\$1updated\$1at | Default | Date | 
| bx\$1authors | \$1authors | Default | String list | 
| bx\$1uri | \$1source\$1uri | Default | String | 
| bx\$1size | bx\$1file\$1size | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1category | \$1category | Default | String | 

## Comments
<a name="box-field-mappings-comments"></a>


| Box field name | Index field name | Description | Data type | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| bx\$1createdAt | \$1created\$1at | Default | Date | 
| bx\$1modifiedAt | \$1last\$1updated\$1at | Default | Date | 
| bx\$1author | \$1authors | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1parentFile | bx\$1comment\$1item | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1category | \$1category | Default | String | 

## Tasks
<a name="box-field-mappings-tasks"></a>


| Box field name | Index field name | Description | Data type | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| bx\$1createdAt | \$1created\$1at | Default | Date | 
| bx\$1action | bx\$1task\$1action | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1taskComplete | bx\$1task\$1completed | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1taskItem | bx\$1task\$1item | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1taskAssigned | bx\$1task\$1assigned\$1to | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1author | bx\$1author | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1category | \$1category | Default | String | 
| bx\$1uri | \$1source\$1uri | Default | String | 

## Web links
<a name="box-field-mappings-web-links"></a>


| Box field name | Index field name | Description | Data type | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| bx\$1createdAt | \$1created\$1at | Default | Date | 
| bx\$1author | bx\$1author | Custom | String | 
| bx\$1category | \$1category | Default | String | 
| bx\$1uri | \$1source\$1uri | Default | String | 

# IAM role for Box connector
<a name="box-iam-role"></a>

If you use the AWS CLI or an AWS SDK, you must create an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy before you create an Amazon Q resource. When you call the [CreateDataSource](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/api-reference/API_CreateDataSource.html) operation, you provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) role with the policy attached.

If you use the AWS Management Console, you can create a new IAM role in the Amazon Q console or use an existing IAM role.

To learn more about IAM roles, see [IAM roles](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles.html) in the *AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide*.

To connect your data source connector to Amazon Q, you must give Amazon Q an IAM role that has the following permissions:
+ Permission to access the `BatchPutDocument` and `BatchDeleteDocument` operations to ingest documents.
+ Permission to access the [User Store](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/connector-principal-store.html) API operations to ingest user and group access control information from documents.
+ Permission to access your AWS Secrets Manager secret to authenticate your data source connector instance.
+ **(Optional)** If you're using Amazon VPC, permission to access your Amazon VPC.

```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",		 	 	 ,
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToGetSecret",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "secretsmanager:GetSecretValue"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:secretsmanager:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:secret:[[secret_id]]"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToDecryptSecret",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "kms:Decrypt"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:kms:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:key/[[key_id]]"
      ],
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "kms:ViaService": [
            "secretsmanager.*.amazonaws.com"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToIngestDocuments",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "qbusiness:BatchPutDocument",
        "qbusiness:BatchDeleteDocument"
      ],
      "Resource": [
      "arn:aws:qbusiness:{{region}}:{{source_account}}:application/{{application_id}}",
      "arn:aws:qbusiness:{{region}}:{{source_account}}:application/{{application_id}}/index/{{index_id}}"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToIngestPrincipalMapping",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "qbusiness:PutGroup",
        "qbusiness:CreateUser",
        "qbusiness:DeleteGroup",
        "qbusiness:UpdateUser",
        "qbusiness:ListGroups"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:qbusiness:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:application/{{application_id}}",
        "arn:aws:qbusiness:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:application/{{application_id}}/index/{{index_id}}",
        "arn:aws:qbusiness:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:application/{{application_id}}/index/{{index_id}}/data-source/*"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToCreateAndDeleteNI",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "arn:aws:ec2:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:subnet/[[subnet_ids]]",
        "arn:aws:ec2:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:security-group/[[security_group]]"
      ]
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToCreateAndDeleteNIForSpecificTag",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
        "ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:network-interface/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:RequestTag/AMAZON_Q": "qbusiness_{{account_id}}_{{application_id}}_*"
        },
        "ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
          "aws:TagKeys": [
            "AMAZON_Q"
          ]
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToCreateTags",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:network-interface/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "ec2:CreateAction": "CreateNetworkInterface"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToCreateNetworkInterfacePermission",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateNetworkInterfacePermission"
      ],
      "Resource": "arn:aws:ec2:{{region}}:{{account_id}}:network-interface/*",
      "Condition": {
        "StringLike": {
          "aws:ResourceTag/AMAZON_Q": "qbusiness_{{account_id}}_{{application_id}}_*"
        }
      }
    },
   {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQToDescribeResourcesForVPC",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
        "ec2:DescribeAvailabilityZones",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaceAttribute",
        "ec2:DescribeVpcs",
        "ec2:DescribeRegions",
        "ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfacePermissions",
        "ec2:DescribeSubnets"
      ],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}
```

**To allow Amazon Q to assume a role, you must also use the following trust policy:**

```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",		 	 	 ,
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AllowsAmazonQServicePrincipal",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Principal": {
        "Service": "qbusiness.amazonaws.com"
      },
      "Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
      "Condition": {
        "StringEquals": {
          "aws:SourceAccount": "{{source_account}}"
        },
        "ArnEquals": {
          "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:qbusiness:{{region}}:{{source_account}}:application/{{application_id}}"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}
```

For more information on Amazon Q data source connector IAM roles, see [IAM roles for Amazon Q data source connectors](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/iam-roles.html#iam-roles-ds).