Programmatically Toggle Comments Panel in PDF Embed API Viewiwer

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February 8, 2021
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Hello,

Is there a way to toggle the Annotation's Comment Panel programatically?

We want the Comments Panel to be shown/hidden depending on some application settings.

Thanks

PDF Embed API

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Correct answer Joel Geraci

You can disable the comments pane using setting showCommentsPanel to false in the SetConfig object.

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Shubhanshu Dixit

Adobe Employee

Hi, Thanks for using PDF Embed API. Please look for setConfig API under section APIs to control UI configurations in the documentation.

gedsmurf1Author

Known Participant

Thank you for your response, I looked at the documentation but I am not sure which constant it is.

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aknoerig

Participating Frequently

This doesn't quite answer the question. 🙂
If the comments panel is enabled, the default is that it will be in "open" state when the viewer is initially loaded.
This is oftentimes undesirable, as it takes a way a big portion of the screen.
How can I set it to be enabled, but initially be in "collapsed" state? Or asked differently, how can I toggle the open/closed state of the comments panel?

Turns out there are indeed three behaviours (which I'd call a bug):

setting showCommentsPanel: true will show the comment menu button and open the comments panel on start
setting showCommentsPanel: false will completely hide the comment menu
not setting showCommentsPanel leads to the desired behaviour: the comment menu button is shown, but the panel remains collapsed

(Marking code with underline here because this editor doesn't seem to have in-line code formatting...)

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