Lexbox guide
Lexbox is the online home for your team's language projects. It stores each project on a server, keeps everyone's copies in step, and gives you a website — lexbox.org — for managing who is on a project. Lexbox used to be called Language Depot; it is the same service, and old accounts and projects are still there.
Lexbox hosts projects for FieldWorks (the desktop app, often called FLEx — FieldWorks Lite calls it FieldWorks Classic), WeSay, OneStory Editor, OurWord and Adapt It. Those programs exchange work with Lexbox through Send/Receive. Lexbox is free to use, and is provided by SIL Global and the Linguistics Institute at Payap University.
Then you rarely need this guide — syncing happens inside the app, and the FieldWorks Lite user guide covers everyday work. This guide is for the website and for Send/Receive programs.
In this guide
- Get an account — register, verify your email and join your team's project.
- Host a project — get a new project set up on Lexbox.
- Send/Receive — connect FieldWorks or WeSay to your project.
- Members and roles — add people to a project and choose what they can do.
- Organizations — group your projects and people.
- Use FieldWorks Lite with your project — for project managers whose team wants the lightweight app too.
Need help? The Help menu on lexbox.org has step-by-step guides, or you can write to admin@languagedepot.org.