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Use FieldWorks Lite with your project

FieldWorks Lite is a companion app for the dictionary part of a FieldWorks project: fast, simple, and it runs on phones, tablets and computers. Team members who only do dictionary work — and would never open FieldWorks itself — can work in FieldWorks Lite while the rest of the team keeps using FieldWorks and Send/Receive.

This page is for the project manager who sets that up. The app itself is covered in the FieldWorks Lite user guide.

Turn it on for your project​

On your project's page on lexbox.org, choose Try FieldWorks Lite?. Lexbox prepares a FieldWorks Lite copy of your project; the first time can take a few minutes on a large project. Afterwards the project carries a Using FieldWorks Lite badge, and your team can install the app and download the project.

FieldWorks Lite support is still in beta. If you don't see the button, a project manager can request early access on the Where is my project? page.

Keep the two sides in step​

Your project now lives in Lexbox in two copies: one for FieldWorks Lite, one for FieldWorks Send/Receive. The Sync FieldWorks Lite button on the project page merges the two. The Sync button in the app (under Synchronize, on the Lexbox tab) is the same button in a different place — pressing either does exactly the same thing. It only runs when someone presses it, so make it part of the team's rhythm:

  1. FieldWorks users Send/Receive as usual.
  2. Someone presses Sync FieldWorks Lite (or Sync in the app).
  3. FieldWorks users Send/Receive again to pick up the FieldWorks Lite work.

FieldWorks Lite users don't do anything — the app syncs with Lexbox on its own. To see the whole journey of an edit, step through How sync works.