Boomi lets you connect Files.com to thousands of other applications, systems, processes, and workflows. Boomi provides a visual, point and click interface for building integrations through a browser-based UI. Processes and integrations can be set up quickly, with no coding, to automate your business tasks and workflows.

Getting Started With Boomi

1. Log in to your Boomi account or create a new Boomi account.
2. Navigate to "Services" then "Integration".
3. Select "Create New" then "Connection" and choose "Files.com - Partner Connector" from the list.
4. Use your Files.com API Key to connect your Files.com account to Boomi. (Create a site-wide API Key for full access to all folders on your site without requiring a user account, or create an API Key for a specific user if you want to restrict access to certain folders. Please refer to our documentation for creating API keys.)

Once that's done you can start creating Boomi Processes to automate the transfer of data between your Boomi process and your Files.com account.

Documentation for the Files.com Partner Connector can be found on the Boomi Help site.

Files.com Partner Connector Configuration

The Files.com connector shape requires a Connection, an Action, and an Operation to be specified for its use.

Connection

The Connection defines the Files.com account which will perform the actions. It requires a Files.com API Key to authenticate and authorize the actions. Connections can be re-used in as many connector shapes as needed.

Ask your Files.com administrator to provide you with an API Key for the required user account or generate your own API Key within your Files.com user account. The connection uses a single Files.com API Key.

When creating a new connection: within the Connection tab, select the Click to Set button, enter the API Key, and select Apply.

Make sure to name the connection clearly, or provide a description, as the API Key does not show any identifying information and will be stored in an encrypted state.

Connector Actions

The Action defines the action to be performed on Files.com by the connector shape. Available actions are Copy, Create, Delete, Download, List, Move, Show, Update, Upload, List folder items (Deprecated), Download a file (Deprecated) and Upload a file (Deprecated).

The Copy action is used to copy of a file or folder in your Files.com site.

The Create action is used to create a folder, group, share link, share link notification, share link recipient, or user account in your Files.com site.

The Delete action is used to delete a file, folder, group, share link, share link notification, or user account from your Files.com site.

The Download action is used to download a file’s contents from Files.com into your Boomi process.

The List action is used to list various items in your Files.com site. It can be used to list the contents of a folder, list all groups, list all share links, list all downloads of a share link, list all share link notifications, list all recipients of a share link, list all registrations of a share link, and list all user accounts.

The Move action is used to move, or rename, a file or folder in your Files.com site.

The Show action is used to show the details of a specific item in your Files.com site. It can be used to show the details of a file, a folder, a group, a share link, a share link notification, or a user account.

The Update action is use to update an item in your Files.com site. It can be used to update a group and its members, update a share link's expiration date, update a share link notification, and update a user account.

The Upload action is used to upload data from your Boomi process, as a file, into a Files.com folder location.

The Download a file action has been deprecated and replaced by the Download action. It remains available for backwards compatibility. It is used to download a file’s contents from Files.com into your Boomi process.

The List folder items action has been deprecated and replaced by the List action. It remains available for backwards compatibility. It is used to list the items contained within a Files.com folder and its results can be used to further traverse the Files.com folder structure, to determine a file to download, or to determine a target folder location for a file upload.

The Upload a file action has been deprecated and replaced by the Upload action. It remains available for backwards compatibility. It is used to upload data from your Boomi process, as a file, into a Files.com folder location.

Connector Operations

The Operation defines a specific configuration for the chosen action, allowing you to specify folder paths and file names for the operation. You can define as many operations as required. Operations can be re-used in as many connector shapes as needed.

Refer to the Boomi Help documentation for details about configuring Connector Operations.

Connector Versions

The partner connector for Files.com will be updated as new features or fixes are applied.

Any new versions of the connector will be made available 2 weeks prior to its runtime release window. Details of Boomi's platform and runtime release schedule can be found at: https://stats.boomi.com/

Your running Boomi processes will not update automatically to new versions. You must manually update your Boomi process in order to implement newer or older versions of our connector.

Refer to the Boomi documentation for more information about how to manage Atom and Connector versions.