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HOW-TO: Create and manage project boxes

In this brief HOW-TO, we will take you through the steps of applying for a Project Box and setting it up so that you can actually work with the files stored in the Project Box using your private Sciebo account.

Apply for the project box

To request a project box, you must first submit the project box application in mysciebo. You will find the relevant field unter the heading Project boxes.

mysciebo Übersicht

The form for the project box must be completed there; in the ‘Department/Workgroup’ field, please provide as precise a description as possible of the actual working group. Also enter the e-mail address of a person who can be contacted if you are unavailable in the "E-mail of Department/Workgroup" field. As the project box is not personalised, this makes it easier to reassign the data when you leave the university and the project box becomes orphaned.

mysciebo Projektboxantrag

Set up a password

Once this request has been accepted, you can access the project box management menu in mysciebo by clicking on 'Manage project boxes':

mysciebo Projektboxverwaltung

Here you need to set a password for the project box.

mysciebo Projektbox Passwort Aendern

Log in to the project box and set up shares

Now you can log in to your own Sciebo instance with this project box. For me, this is https://uni-muenster.sciebo.de. Please note the .pbox@institute at the end of the project box name, for example .pbox@uni-muenster.de for the University of Münster.

sciebo Projektbox Login

You can now set up a folder structure in the project box; it usually suffices to just have a folder, which you share with your personal Sciebo account:

sciebo share

You can set the permissions by clicking on the cogwheel next to the share. By default, everything is allowed; this makes sense for your personal account, as it enables you to share this project box folder with other project partners without having to log into the project box again.

sciebo share rights