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Tyler33163922ju49
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October 25, 2023
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Disable Auto-select when ussing addAnnotation method

  • October 25, 2023
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Hi,
I want to be able to silently add annotations with out disturbing the user's workflow. Is there a way to not select an annotation when added using the addAnniotation method.

The update and delete methods work how I expect just not the add function.

 

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    Correct answer Andreas23315768po3y

    Hi,

     

    I was wondering about the same thing, but the workaround with adding multiple annotations wasn't really an option for me, since it would pollute the undo history if I added a second annotation and instantly deleted it afterwards.

     

    So I looked up the piece of code, that adds the annotations and it turns out, you can actually add a second argument to the addAnnotations method.

     

    // silently adds a single annotation
annotationManager.addAnnotations([template], {silent: true});

     

    Maybe someone should mention this in the documentation? Or will this be removed in future releases?

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    Andreas23315768po3yCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    November 23, 2023

    Hi,

     

    I was wondering about the same thing, but the workaround with adding multiple annotations wasn't really an option for me, since it would pollute the undo history if I added a second annotation and instantly deleted it afterwards.

     

    So I looked up the piece of code, that adds the annotations and it turns out, you can actually add a second argument to the addAnnotations method.

     

    // silently adds a single annotation
annotationManager.addAnnotations([template], {silent: true});

     

    Maybe someone should mention this in the documentation? Or will this be removed in future releases?

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      Tyler33163922ju49Author
      Inspiring
      November 23, 2023
      Great find! I would love to hear if this will be deprecated also.

      I’ve been working on my solution for a bit and found that if you add the
      annotation you want to add and a “bad” annotation (like a reply to non
      existent comment). It will add the real annotation correctly, throw an
      error for the “bad”, and still silently add. I just added some logic to
      ignore the error.
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      Tyler33163922ju49Author
      Inspiring
      November 1, 2023

      For anyone who may come across this in the future, adding multiple annotations in one call of addAnnotations had the behaviour I was looking for.

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