Legal hold policy assignment

Legal Hold Assignments are used to assign Legal Hold Policies to Users, Folders, Files, or File Versions.

Creating a Legal Hold Assignment puts a hold on the File-Versions that belong to the Assignment's 'apply-to' entity.

This resource has a few variations that can be encountered when using the API.

The fields that are part of the base variant represent the default fields that are always returned when using the fields query parameter, additional to the fields specified in the parameter.

id string

example"11446498"

The unique identifier for this legal hold assignment

type string

example"legal_hold_policy_assignment"

legal_hold_policy_assignment

Value is always legal_hold_policy_assignment

assigned_at string / date-time

example"2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00"

When the legal hold policy assignment object was created

assigned_byUser (Mini) object

The user who created the legal hold policy assignment

assigned_to File / Folder / Web link object

The item that the the legal hold policy is assigned to. Includes type and ID.

deleted_at string / date-time

example"2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00"

When the assignment release request was sent. (Because it can take time for an assignment to fully delete, this isn't quite the same time that the assignment is fully deleted). If null, Assignment was not deleted.

legal_hold_policyLegal hold policy (Mini) object

The policy that the legal hold policy assignment is part of

Response Example

{
  "id": "11446498",
  "type": "legal_hold_policy_assignment",
  "assigned_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "assigned_by": {
    "id": "11446498",
    "type": "user",
    "login": "ceo@example.com",
    "name": "Aaron Levie"
  },
  "assigned_to": {
    "id": "12345",
    "type": "file",
    "content_created_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "content_modified_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "created_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "created_by": {
      "id": "11446498",
      "type": "user",
      "login": "ceo@example.com",
      "name": "Aaron Levie"
    },
    "description": "Contract for Q1 renewal",
    "etag": "1",
    "file_version": {
      "id": "12345",
      "type": "file_version",
      "sha1": "134b65991ed521fcfe4724b7d814ab8ded5185dc"
    },
    "item_status": "active",
    "modified_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "modified_by": {
      "id": "11446498",
      "type": "user",
      "login": "ceo@example.com",
      "name": "Aaron Levie"
    },
    "name": "Contract.pdf",
    "owned_by": {
      "id": "11446498",
      "type": "user",
      "login": "ceo@example.com",
      "name": "Aaron Levie"
    },
    "parent": {
      "id": "12345",
      "type": "folder",
      "etag": "1",
      "name": "Contracts",
      "sequence_id": "3"
    },
    "path_collection": {
      "entries": [
        {
          "id": "12345",
          "etag": "1",
          "type": "folder",
          "name": "Contracts",
          "sequence_id": "3"
        }
      ],
      "total_count": 1
    },
    "purged_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
    "sequence_id": "3",
    "sha1": "85136C79CBF9FE36BB9D05D0639C70C265C18D37",
    "shared_link": {
      "access": "open",
      "download_count": 3,
      "download_url": "https://www.box.com/shared/static/rh935iit6ewrmw0unyul.jpeg",
      "effective_access": "company",
      "effective_permission": "can_download",
      "is_password_enabled": true,
      "permissions": {
        "can_download": true,
        "can_edit": false,
        "can_preview": true
      },
      "preview_count": 3,
      "unshared_at": "2018-04-13T13:53:23-07:00",
      "url": "https://www.box.com/s/vspke7y05sb214wjokpk",
      "vanity_name": "my_url",
      "vanity_url": "https://acme.app.box.com/v/my_url/"
    },
    "size": 629644,
    "trashed_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00"
  },
  "deleted_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
  "legal_hold_policy": {
    "id": "11446498",
    "type": "legal_hold_policy"
  }
}