Understanding annotation sets

There are a variety of rules and limitations when working with annotation sets. This topic describes how OnSite Solution works with annotation sets.

Below is a list of annotation set rules:

You can create up to 20 annotation sets containing the following types of annotations:
- Predefined shapes
- Images
- Text
- Arrows
- Straight line polyline (geometry)
- Straight line polygon (geometry)
- Freehand polyline (geometry)
- Freehand polygon (geometry)
An annotation set may contain up to 20 predefined shape annotations
An annotation set map contain up to 20 image annotations
An annotation set may contain up to 5 geometry annotations
An annotation set may contain up to 8 arrow annotations
You can click an annotation on the map to display a menu of available actions when creating a new annotation set or editing an existing annotation set
You can select from 36 default predefined shape annotations
Predefined shape annotations will be anchored at a single point on the map at a location you have specified
You can perform the following actions on predefined shape annotations:
- Change line color
- Change line thickness
- Change line transparency
- Change fill color
- Change fill transparency
- Edit text
- Move
- Resize
- Rotate
- Delete
Image annotations will be anchored at a single point on the map specified by the user
The user will be able to upload images to create image annotations
Images for image annotations must be JPEGs or PNGs with dimensions less than or equal to 500 x 500 pixels
You may perform the following actions on image annotations:
- Change line color
- Change line thickness
- Change line transparency
- Edit text
- Edit images
- Move
- Resize
- Rotate
- Delete

2/24/2012