Annotations

You can use the Annotation object to link additional information to documents and other objects such as workflow definition, custom objects, and folders. Examples of annotation formats are text, audio, video, image, highlight, and sticky note. The content of the annotation does not have to be the same format as its parent document, and can be published separately. Document annotations are uniquely associated with a single document version; they are not versioned or carried forward when their document version is updated and a new version created.

The Annotation class supports the full range of functionality that is associated with the Content Platform Engine content model. For example, you can subclass the default Annotation class to specify particular storage options and add properties.

You can modify and delete annotations independently of their annotated object. However, you cannot create versions of an annotation separately from the object with which it is associated. By design, the annotation is deleted whenever its associated parent object is deleted. Annotations receive their default security from both the annotation class and the parent object. You can apply security to annotations that is different from the security applied to the parent.

Applications that use annotations typically add properties for the particular kind of annotation being implemented. For example, a property might be added that indicates the presence and location of the annotation. A voice annotation might need a BLOb property to contain the WAV file or other type of sound file.

IBM® FileNet® Content Federation Services for Image Services annotations

You can annotate and view graphic files by using the Image Viewer applet in your client application. Although you can annotate graphic files by using the administration console, the annotations do not appear in the Image Viewer unless they are expressed with the XML schema that is used by Image Viewer. Annotations that you add with Image Viewer can be viewed in the administration console, but they are displayed in the Image Viewer XML format.