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Project updates in Labelbox are a great way to keep everyone on your team informed. This feature allows you to communicate and collaborate directly within the Labelbox platform, which is especially helpful when working with an external workforce. You can find the Updates section in the Notifications tab. This is where you can coordinate with all stakeholders, including your team, a labeling service admin, and the labeling workforce. To keep things organized, Labelbox allows you to create different types of updates for common scenarios. This makes it easier to find important information later.

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How to create an update

Follow these steps to create a project update:
  1. Open a new update: Select a project and go to Notifications → Updates. Click + New update.
  2. Select the update type: Select the type of update from the dropdown menu and add a message to provide more details. The text field for creating and editing updates supports markdown, allowing you to easily format your text. Here are the types of updates you can choose from:
Update typeWhat it does
Progress updateShares updates on the project’s progress.
ETA updatedCommunicates any changes to the project’s expected completion date.
Instructions updatedNotifies the labeling team of any changes to the project instructions.
IssueInforms the labeling team about any labeling issues you find in the project.
GeneralFor any communication that doesn’t fit into the other categories.
  1. Add a message: You may optionally add a message to make your update more descriptive. Markdown formatting is supported in your message description.
  2. Share with: You can specify which organizations will receive this update.
    • All: This will make it available for all organizations added to the project (it will enable this update for external organizations added in the future)
    • Internal only: This will always make it private for your organization, meaning no other organizations (even those added later) will have access to this update.
    • Specific organization: You can select specific organizations that will have access to it (your organization is always included). This option is only available if your project is shared with external orgs.
  3. Notify with emails: To support engagement, you may select to notify users of the update via email. Check the box to enable email notifications.
  4. Add attachments: You may optionally include local files in your update. Click Add under Attachments to do so.
  5. When you are done, click Create update.
For easy retrieval, you can filter your updates in the Notifications tab with two filters:
  • Author: filters by the email address of the party creating the update
  • Type: filters by the update type
Once a new update is created, you can reply to the same update. This will add it as an additional reply to the thread. You can reply to updates to close the thread or ask additional clarifying questions.

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Automatic email notifications

Once you are added as a project admin, you will automatically receive email notifications for every new update. These emails will come from support@labelbox.com, and the subject line will include the project name, making it easy to sort notifications from different projects into unique email threads.