Just show annotations that match status

[lidds]

I want to just show annotations that match Approved, Completed status. At the moment I am looking through and checking each annotation status and if it does not match deleting the annotation from the document. However this is very slow, is there a faster command to achieve what I require?

Thanks

Simon

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Simon,

Do you want to physically remove them from the document, or just hide them from the end-user so they won't be displayed?

Cheers,
Alex

[lidds]

Alex,

I wish to remove them from the document.

Thanks

Simon

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Simon,

The fastest way to do this is to run through all of the annotations, check them by the given criteria, and if they needs to be removed add them to the https://sdkhelp.pdf-xchange.com/vi ... ots_delete operation input. Then execute it once and all of them will be removed.

Cheers,
Alex

[lidds]

Alex,

This is currently what I am doing, but my customers has documents that have over 900 annotations and this is quite slow.

If I just wanted to hide the annotations is this possible using a different command? If so, if the annotations are hidden and then I flattern and save the document to a different file name will this only flattern and save visible annotations?

Thanks

Simon

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]

Hello Simon,

Sadly, hiding them won't work for you, as you want to save the document. Let's look why removing the annotations takes so much time. To figure this out lets measure the time that is needed to find the annotations and then the time that is needed to remove the annotations.

Cheers,
Alex

[lidds]

Alex,

I figured out what I was doing wrong. On my JS I was collecting all the annotations on the document and then looping to match the single annotation name that I wanted to get the Status of. Obviously this was repeating this loop 900 times for the document. Instead I should have just used the this.getAnnot() command as I already knew the annotation name.

Sorry to waste your time.

Thanks

Simon

[Sasha - Tracker Dev Team]