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Managing the Use of Annotations

This section discusses how to limit the usage of annotations at a repository level.

To assign annotation settings to a single Role, you must assign a Repository with the settings you want to a particular Role.

You may have to create two Repository objects that each point to the same CA View repository, to assign separate settings to separate Roles. See Repository Object Concept for more information.

Note: The Annotation feature is supported by CA View (11.0 or higher) only.

Additional information about how to create, edit, or remove annotations is discussed in the Annotation section of the User Guide.

There are a number of annotation options that can be controlled from the Repository level. The first option is whether to allow annotations in this repository. Additionally, you can further limit users’ permissions for specific annotation options. All Roles with a Role type of Basic User only have read access to Annotation notes and do not have any access to bookmarks.

Allowing annotations will affect different Role types differently. For the Basic User level, users will be allowed to view annotation notes. Higher level Role types, Advanced User, Group Administrator, and System Administrator will be able to create, change, and delete annotations, notes, and bookmarks.