Saving and Retrieving Annotations

Introduction

Synapse provides several options for saving and retrieving annotations, viewing other user's annotations, showing or hiding existing annotations, and displaying annotations that are not part of the current view.

Note:
  • When you attempt to save an annotation for a locked Advanced Reporting (AR) study, or another user has saved an annotation (for that study) since you loaded the AR study, Synapse displays a message stating the Annotations were not saved.
  • The Viewer prevents you from saving annotations for prior AR studies.

  • You can only save annotations on MDS studies if the datasource is a Synapse datasource.

Saving Annotations

Steps

  1. When you have finished adding annotations to a study, right-click to display the context menu.
  2. Click Annotations and select the appropriate option:

    If you want to do this...

    Choose this option...

    Save the annotations added to a single series.

    Note: If there are multiple series in the study you are annotating, only the annotations for the selected series will be saved.

    If you add annotations to other series in the study and close the study, Synapse prompts you to save all unsaved annotations.

    Save Series Annotations

    Save all unsaved annotations in the study.

    Save Study Annotations

Retrieving Annotations

Introduction

With appropriate permissions, you can use the options on the context menu to hide, remove, or retrieve annotations as needed.

Steps

  1. With a study open, right-click an image to display the context menu.
  2. Click Annotations and select the appropriate option:

    If you want to do this...

    Choose this option...

    Hide the annotations that are displaying.

    or

    Show the annotations that you hid using this option.

    Show Annotations

    Remove all unsaved annotations.

    Reset Annotations

    Display any saved annotations that are not part of the existing display state. This applies to your own annotations as well as annotations added by other users.

    Examples:

    • If you save annotations in a Snapshot and then reopen the study with a different Snapshot (or the Initial State), select Load Saved Annotations to view the saved annotations.
    • Select Load Saved Annotations to view annotations added by another user.

    Load Saved Annotations

Additional Options

Related Topics

Manipulating Annotations