A new contract can be created by a Research Drive user with the role Dashboard Admin.

At the Contract tab, you can click on the "Create" button, where the pop-up below appears.


What do the fields mean:

  • Contract number: Short name of the contract, which is further used & shown for accounts / projects
  • Description: Description for your own administration, not a mandatory field.
  • Owner: Owner of the contract, for example a person or department.
  • Owner email: Mail address of the owner.
  • Start date: Start date for the contract
  • End date: End date for the contract
  • Quotum: The total amount of storage that can be distributed by this contract
  • Selectable storage quotums: A predetermined selection of possible quotums, which can be chosen from at the time of creating a new project folder. Custom input is also possible as the last option.
  • Number of projectfolders: Maximum number of project folders that can be created by users linked to this contract, without the need for a contract or dashboard admin to request them.


Selectable storage quotums

This gives you the ability to limit the choice of quotums when creating project folders. For example, you can say that project folders for a specific contract can only have a quotum of 10 or 25 GB.

Number of projectfolders

Number of project folders gives a number of freely allowed project folders, which can be created per user. This value applies to all users covered by the contract.
A whitelist can be applied to this. See Manage a contract. A safe configuration could be to set this default for a contract to "0" and set it per user.

More settings (like contract admins, remove period & contract contacts) can be defined after creation.

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