Saving and Retrieving Annotations
Introduction
The Viewer's context menu includes a permissions-based feature called Annotations that provides multiple options for saving and retrieving annotations. Use these options to view other users' annotations, show or hide existing annotations, and display annotations that are not part of the current view.
Saving Annotations
Steps
- When you have finished adding annotations to a study, right-click to display the image context menu.
- Click Annotations and select
the appropriate option:
If you want to do this...
Choose this option...
Save the annotations added to a single series.
Note: If there are multiple series in the study you are annotating, only the annotations for the selected series will be saved.
If you have added annotations to other series in the study and close the study, the application will prompt you to save all unsaved annotations.
Save Series Annotations.
Save all unsaved annotations in the study.
Save Study Annotations.
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The application prompts you to save
your annotations if you close the Viewer using the Close
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on the
Viewer toolbar. Retrieving Annotations
Introduction
With appropriate permissions, you can use the options on the Viewer's Image context menu to hide, remove, or retrieve annotations as needed.
Steps
- With a study open, right-click an image to display the image context menu.
- Click Annotations and select
the appropriate option:
If you want to do this...
Choose this option...
Hide the annotations that are displaying.
or
Show the annotations that you hid using this option.
Show Annotations
Remove all unsaved annotations.
Reset Annotations
Display any saved annotations that are not part of the existing display state. This applies to your own annotations as well as annotations added by other users.
Examples:
- If you save annotations in a Snapshot and then reopen the study with a different Snapshot (or the Initial State), select Load Public Annotations to view the saved annotations.
- Select Load Public Annotations to view annotations added by another user.
Load Public Annotations
Additional Options
- See Keyboard Shortcuts for Annotations.
- See Viewer Context Menu and Icon Menu Options for a list of annotations menu icon options.
- See Configuring Annotation Settings
- See Customizing Measurements for Annotations
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