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Host a project

A project on Lexbox gives your team one shared home for its data: everyone uses Send/Receive with it, and you manage the member list on the website.

Ask for a project​

On My Projects, choose Create Project (you need a verified email address to see it). The form asks for:

  • Name: usually the name of the language you are working on.
  • Project type: FieldWorks, WeSay (LIFT), OneStory Editor, OurWord or Adapt It.
  • Organization: the organization the project belongs to, if any.
  • Purpose: Language Project for real work, or Training/Testing for practice projects. The form starts on Training, so change it for a real project.
  • Language Code: preferably the Ethnologue code of the language.
  • Description, and whether the project is confidential (see Members and roles).

Lexbox builds the project code from your answers, and it can't be changed later: for example qaa-flex for a FieldWorks Language Project on language qaa, or qaa-train-flex for a Training one. If similar projects already exist in the organization you selected, the form shows them and offers Ask to join instead, so teams don't split their work by accident.

Approval​

If you manage (or have managed) a project on Lexbox, the form's last button reads Create Project and the project is created right away. Otherwise it reads Request Project: the project shows up under My Projects marked Awaiting approval, an administrator reviews the request, and you get an email when it is approved.

Fill it with data​

A new project starts empty. Put your data in with your program's first Send/Receive. In FieldWorks that is Send/Receive → Send this Project for the first time. The project's page on lexbox.org shows these steps under Set up project, with your login and project code already filled in. See Send/Receive.