Only show current users annotations

[Anonymous25745420ao2q]

I would like to share a PDF that allows for annotation. However, I only want the current user to see their own annotations, and no others. Is this possible? I'm assuming this needs be done via PDF Embed API?

[Raymond Camden]

I'd take a look at the Annotation API: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/pdf-embed-api/howtos_comments/

It lets you programatically show annotations. 

[Joel Geraci]

Do you also want someone else to be able to see all of the annotations from all users?

[Anonymous25745420ao2q]

Ideally no one should be able to see all annotations.

[Joel Geraci]

Ok - So You can use the annotations API to store the annotations in localStorage. You'd write some code to read annotations from localStorage when the file opens and to save them back when there are changes. The annotations never get saved to the PDF on the server. Would that work? If so, I can write a CodePen example.

[Raymond Camden]

To be fair though, any user can open their devtools and see LocalStorage.

[Joel Geraci]

@Raymond Camden but one user can't see another user's local storage without their login which I'd have to assume they wouldn't in a well managed environment.

[Raymond Camden]

Yes, but I was worried about them loading _all_ the annotations and then using logic to show a portion of them. 

[Anonymous25745420ao2q]

Hi there - this sounds like almost exactly what we need. I would love to see an example in CodePen if possible.