Post Box Collaboration Changes to Linear
When someone's role or access changes in Box, Notis posts the update to the related Linear issue so your team stays in sync.
Trigger
Collaboration Details Changed
Triggers when a collaboration's details change (e.g., role, status, expiration). This trigger monitors a specific collaboration and detects when any meaningful field changes, such as role, status, expiration date, access type, or acknowledgment status.
Action
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
Why this helps
Collaborators' roles change in Box but your Linear team doesn't find out until someone's locked out or has unexpected access.
- Instant visibility into who has what access in Box
- No surprises about role changes or access expiration
- Audit trail of collaboration changes in your issue tracker
- Less friction from people discovering they've lost access
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Box and Linear to Notis.
- 2Create an automation called 'Box collaboration changes alert.'
- 3Set the prompt to 'When a collaboration's details change in Box (role, status, expiration), post a comment to the related Linear issue with the new details.'
- 4Use 'Collaboration Details Changed' as your trigger.
- 5Select your notification channel.
- 6Test by changing someone's role in a Box collaboration and watching the post appear in Linear.
Questions about this workflow
Does it notify the person whose access changed?
Notis posts to the Linear issue comment thread. You can include the person's mention to notify them directly.
Can I flag role changes that downgrade access?
Yes. Tell Notis 'Alert me if someone loses editor access' and it will highlight downgrades.
What if the collaborator isn't in Linear?
Notis still posts the collaboration change to the issue. The Linear team can see who changed.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Box to Linear. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Box triggers
Linear actions
Collaboration Details Changed
Triggers when a collaboration's details change (e.g., role, status, expiration). This trigger monitors a specific collaboration and detects when any meaningful field changes, such as role, status, expiration date, access type, or acknowledgment status.
Create linear attachment
Creates a new attachment and associates it with a specific, existing linear issue.
Comment Changed
Triggers when a comment's content or details change in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box comment and detects when any meaningful field changes, such as message text edits, tagged message changes, or modification timestamp updates.
Create a comment
Creates a new comment on a specified linear issue.
New File Comment Added
Triggers when a new comment is added to a file in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box file and fires when new comments are detected.
Create linear issue
Creates a new issue in a specified linear project and team, requiring a title and description, and allowing for optional properties like assignee, state, priority, cycle, and due date.
File Metadata Changed
Triggers when a file's metadata or properties change in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box file and fires when changes are detected in key fields like name, description, size, modification time, parent folder, or status.
Get create issue default params
Fetches a linear team's default issue estimate and state, useful for pre-filling new issue forms.
File Shared Link Changed
Triggers when a file's shared link settings change in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box file's shared link and fires when changes are detected in the shared link configuration, such as access level, permissions, password protection, expiration date, or vanity URL.
Create a label
Creates a new label in linear for a specified team, used to categorize and organize issues.
New File Version Uploaded
Triggers when a new file version is uploaded to a file in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box file and fires when new versions are detected.
Delete issue
Archives an existing linear issue by its id, which is linear's standard way of deleting issues; the operation is idempotent.
New Item Added to Folder
Triggers when a new item (file, folder, or web link) is added to a folder in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box folder and fires when new items are detected.
Get all teams
Retrieves all teams from the linear workspace without requiring any parameters.
Folder Properties Changed
Triggers when a folder's core properties change in Box. This trigger monitors a specific Box folder and fires when changes are detected in properties like name, description, modification time, parent folder, item status, or shared link settings.
Download issue attachments
Downloads a specific attachment from a linear issue; the `file name` must include the correct file extension.
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