The following table guides you to some of the ways the Shared project can be used:

Shared Definitions

When defined in the Shared project, the following features and definitions will be available in any other project or folder of the requisite type.

*Wikis are generally available site-wide, depending on permissions. From any container, you can see and use wikis from any other container you have permission to read. A permission-restrictive project can choose to make wikis available site-wide by defining them in the Shared project and accessing them from there.

Features Using Shared Definitions

The following features will include definitions from the Shared project when providing user selection options. There is no heirarchy; the user can select equally any options offered:

Resolving Targets by Name

When referring to any of the features in the following table, the hierarchy of searching for a name match proceeds as follows:

1. First the current folder is searched for a matching name. If no match:
2. Look in the parent of the current folder, and if no match there, continue to search up the folder tree to the project level, or whereever the feature itself is defined. If there is still no match:
3. Look in the Shared project (but not in any of its subfolders).

Related Topics

• Shared Datasets and Timepoints
• Controlling Data Scope