Lexbox guide
Lexbox is the online home for your team's language projects. It stores each project on a server where everyone's changes meet, 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 program, 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 Language Technology and the Linguistics Institute at Payap University.
You rarely need this guide: syncing happens inside the app, and the FieldWorks Lite user guide covers everyday work. You do need a Lexbox account, and your project manager adds you to the project.
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.
- Turn on FieldWorks Lite: for teams where some people use the FieldWorks Lite app.
Need help? The Help link on lexbox.org opens step-by-step guides, or you can write to lexbox_support@groups.sil.org.