Have the "status" property set on annotation when importing XFDF into Acrobat

[Matt Parizeau]

Q:

Is it possible to import annotations create in WebViewer into a PDF and have the status (e.g. Accepted, Cancelled, Completed, Rejected) be set on the annotation?

A:

Currently status is not changeable from the default WebViewer UI but you could make some customizations to allow this. Basically the status of an annotation is actually represented by a separate reply annotation. So what you could do is when you want to set the status of an annotation run the following code:

var statusAnnot = annotManager.createAnnotationReply(annot);
var popup = $(statusAnnot).data('popup');
popup.hide();
$(popup.el).hide();

statusAnnot.status = 'Accepted';
statusAnnot.setContents('Accepted by ' + annot.Author);

Then you'll have to override the serialize and deserialize functions for sticky annotations so that the status can be saved and loaded correctly:

var stickySerialize = Annotations.StickyAnnotation.prototype.serialize;
Annotations.StickyAnnotation.prototype.serialize = function(el, pageMatrix) {
    stickySerialize.apply(this, arguments);

    if (this.status) {
        $(el).attr({
            statemodel: 'Review',
            state: this.status,
            flags: 'hidden,nozoom,norotate' // seems to be required to import into Acrobat
        });
    }

    return el;
};

var stickyDeserialize = Annotations.StickyAnnotation.prototype.deserialize;
Annotations.StickyAnnotation.prototype.deserialize = function(el, pageMatrix) {
    stickyDeserialize.apply(this, arguments);

    var status = $(el).attr('state');

    if (status) {
        this.status = status;
    }
};