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Overleaf

Sciebo offers an integration of the collaborative LaTeX tool overleaf. This integration is based on the open source variant and its feature set is roughly between the free and basic tier of the commercial overleaf service.

We run our own overleaf instance, which can be used by all sciebo users.

The integration currently requires considerable development effort on our side and is provided as is.

In particular we recommend to make regular backups of overleaf projects via the download function of overleaf projects, as we have only limited ability to restore singular projects.

Sharing

In order to be able to share with a person, it first has to log into our overleaf instance via sciebo and create a new project. [^1]

If you receive a share, there is a notification in the project overview about this. This invitation can be accepted via "Join project" or be dismissed by a click onto the cross. Receiving shares

Note that for sharing with persons from other universities, you do not need to use the federated id, but just their local username, which is everything before the second "@".

Import and export of projects

Currently it is sadly impossible to directly interact with the sciebo storage, but it is possible to use .zip archives both for importing and exporting projects.

To import a project, you click on "New Project" and use the upload option: Upload project

To export/download a project, you click on the small cloud symbol in the project overview: Download project

Known problems and non-features

  • Overleaf does not send out e-mails; you have to inform share receivers by yourself
  • some integrations like git are not part of the opensource project and we can not offer them
  • sharing only works after a person logged into overleaf via sciebo at least once
  • you cannot directly import from sciebo or export to sciebo

[^1]: To be honest we are not completely sure if it is necessary to really create a project beforehand. Logging in definitely is necessary though and when there is a project, we can be sure that a login happened.