Overview

In Box, the Tags feature allows you to mark, sort, and easily search for related files. Once enabled, users will be able to filter and search for files based on shared tags. In SharePoint, the Enterprise Keywords feature allows you to add enterprise keywords to items on a SharePoint site to tag and create a folksonomy. DryvIQ can preserve these tags when transferring content between Box and SharePoint platforms, in copy, migrate, and sync jobs.  

Supported Platforms

• Box (Tags)
• Office 365 (Enterprise Keywords)
• SharePoint 2016 (Enterprise Keywords)
• OneDrive for Business (Enterprise Keywords) (only visible in "classic OneDrive" view)

User Experience

Migrated Tags to Enterprise Keywords in OneDrive for Business will surface documents when searching by keyword. However, the tags/keywords would not be visible to the user in the default view; they are only visible in the “classic” OneDrive view. Microsoft's current guidance suggests that any content containing tags or metadata would be best migrated to Office 365/SharePoint Online sites.

Options

Configuration

In SharePoint, the Enterprise Keywords column must be enabled. See Microsoft documentation for further details.

Invalid Tags

When a Box tag is created with characters that are not supported in SharePoint, DryvIQ will add a warning to the logs and transfer the file without the invalid tag. For example, a log for an invalid tag would look like the following: "event": "tags_warn" thrown. The value '<>' is invalid.

Job JSON Example

{
  "name":"Box to O365 - Tags to Enterprise Keywords",
  "kind": "transfer",
  "transfer": {
      "audit_level": "trace",
      "tags": "add",
      "transfer_type": "copy",
      "source": {
        "connection": { "id": "{{cloud_connection_source}}" },
        "target":
        {"path":"/BoxPath"}
      },
      "destination": {
        "connection": { "id": "{{cloud_connection_destination}}" },
        "target": {
          "path": "/O365Path"
        }
      }
  },
  "schedule": {
    "mode": "manual"
  }
}