How to Upload and Analyze Your Own Documents

Enhance your legal research by uploading your own documents to vLex Library. Learn to connect your cloud storage and search your private files with vLex.

Summary

Integrate your personal work with vLex Library by connecting your cloud storage and uploading Your own documents. This allows you to use vLex's powerful search and analysis tools, including Vincent, on your private files.

Why This is Important

Uploading your own documents transforms vLex Library into a centralized knowledge hub. It allows you to run a single search across both our global legal research platform and your own work product, creating a seamless and powerful research workflow.

How to Connect and Upload Your Documents

Option 1: From the Homepage

  1. Locate the vLex Cloud card on your Homepage and click Get started.

  2. Follow the on-screen instructions to select and connect your Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, or Google Drive account.

Option 2: From Your Account Settings

  1. Click the person icon in the top-right corner of the screen.

  2. Select vLex Cloud settings from the dropdown menu.

  3. Click Connect next to your preferred cloud storage service and follow the prompts to authorize the connection.

  4. Your documents will be securely synced to vLex Library.

Connect your preferred storage service from Account Settings to keep all your documents securely synced with vLex Library.

Your Documents are Private: The documents you upload are secure and private. Only you, and any users you explicitly authorize, can access the documents you sync via vLex Cloud.

How to Search Your Documents

Once your documents are synced, you can search them just like any other content.

  • Advanced Search: Select Your own documents from the list of content types to search exclusively within your files.

  • General Search: After any search, your documents will appear as a filterable Content type on the left side of the results page. You can easily include or exclude them from your results.

Easily include your personal documents in any search by using the content type filter.

Best Practices & Pro Tips

  • Analyze with Vincent: Open one of your uploaded documents and use Vincent to find related authorities from the vLex Library database that you may have missed.

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