Configuration - Annotations

Configuration, annotationsAnnotations

The following settings are located in the Annotations area of the Configuration.

Select user: Select a user/option group via the Select user button to assign the user/option group certain settings in the configuration.

Transfer settings to other users (arrow icon): Transfer the settings you made to one or multiple users or an option group.

Save the settings of the configuration as a file (disk icon): This option saves the settings of the configuration as a file.

Load existing settings for the configuration (folder icon): Load the settings from a configuration file.

Delete settings (X icon): Click here to delete all settings you made for an option group or other users. This restores the settings to their default values.

Sticky notes

A sticky note is a color text field that is affixed directly to a document and that is used for recording information. Choose from five different colors for sticky notes – yellow, green, red, blue, orange are set by default. You can configure these colors individually.

Configuration, sticky notes

You can adjust the following settings:

  • Font
  • Color
  • Permissions

Marker width

The Marker, Freehand marker, and Strikethrough tools are made available in three different sizes (widths). You can define the widths of the markers via the Large marker, Medium marker, and Small marker fields.

Information: The values are about the same as the point size, depending on the font. For example, if you enter the value 12, this corresponds approximately to the width of a line in 12-point Arial font.

Large marker: Here you can set the width of the large markers.

Horizontal marker

You can define five types for the Horizontal marker tool. Colors and permissions can be set for each type.

Horizontal markerConfiguration, horizontal marker

Color: The Color button opens the Select color dialog box. Use the dialog box to change the color of the respective marker.

Permissions: Click Permissions to open the Permissions dialog box. Use the dialog box to define the permission settings for the respective marker.

Freehand marker

You can define five types for the Freehand marker tool. Colors and permissions can be set for each type.

Freehand markerConfiguration, freehand marker

Color: The Color button opens the Select color dialog box. Use the dialog box to change the color of the respective marker.

Permissions: Click Permissions to open the Permissions dialog box. Use the dialog box to define the permission settings for the respective marker.

Rectangle marker

You can define five types for the Rectangle marker tool. Colors and permissions can be set for each type.

Rectangle markerConfiguration, rectangle marker

Color: The Color button opens the Select color dialog box. Use the dialog box to change the color of the respective marker.

Permissions: Click Permissions to open the Permissions dialog box. Use the dialog box to define the permission settings for the respective marker.

Strikethrough

You can change the settings of the Strikethrough tool.

StrikethroughConfiguration, rectangle marker

Color: The Color button opens the Select color dialog box. Use the dialog box to change the background color of the Strikethrough tool.

Permissions: Click Permissions to open the Permissions dialog box. Use the dialog box to make the permissions settings for the Strikethrough tool.

Blackening configuration

The Blackening tool can be used to render texts unreadable.

BlackeningConfiguration, blackening

Information: For the blackening function to be available for the user, certain settings must be made to the ELO database. You can find more detailed information about Blackening in the documentation ELO Blackening.

Permissions: Click Permissions to open the Permissions dialog box. Use the dialog box to make the permission settings for blackening.

Text note configuration

You can define five types for the Text note tool. You can set the font, font size, font style, font color and permissions for each type.

Text noteConfiguration, text note

Font: Click Font to open the Font dialog box. You can set the font, font size, font style, font color and permissions for each type of text note here.

Permissions: Click Permissions to open the Permissions dialog box. Use the dialog box to make the permission settings for each type of text note.

Apply: Save the settings made.

OK: Click OK to close the dialog box and save the configuration.

Cancel: Discard the currently made settings. The changes are not saved.

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