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Posting Annotations to a Server

Snowbound Software’s FlexSnap: Applet SE and FlexSnap: Applet XE products include annotation capabilities to allow you to collaborate on documents and images by adding or removing annotations without affecting the original document or other annotations. Text annotations allow you to attach comments. Graphic annotations allow you to visually mark areas. You can post annotations to a server to allow other users to collaborate with you on your annotations.

To turn the annotation feature on or off, insert the following parameter into your HTML code, between the <applet> and </applet> tags. If the value is true, the annotation user interface and server calls are included.

<param name="supportAnnotations" value="true">

To post annotations to a server in FlexSnap: Applet SE and FlexSnap: Applet XE, insert the following parameter into your HTML code, between the <applet> and </applet> tags:

<param name="postAnnotationURL" value="http://myhost/PostServlet">