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- <h1>Replying to Annotations / Discussion Threads</h1>
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- <p>Annotations can be seen as comments to pages. The <strong>Annotation /
- Replies</strong> feature enhances the collaborative workspace by allowing
- users to reply to annotations or to other replies.</p>
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- <p>The <strong>Annotations / Reply to annotation</strong> menu command lets
- you to create a reply to an existing annotation or to a reply. You can invoke
- this command from an open annotation or a reply window. As a result a new
- reply window opens. The fields in a reply window can be edited just like in
- an annotation window as explained under <strong>Creating an
- annotation</strong>.</p>
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- <p>When the reply is ready, you can post it to a server with
- <strong>Annotations / Post to Server</strong> menu command or save it locally
- using the <strong>File / Save</strong> menu command. To delete a reply, you
- can use the <strong>Annotations / Delete</strong> menu command.</p>
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- <p>Replies can also be annotated like any other document, as explained in <a
- href="creating_an_annotation.html">Creating an annotation</a>.</p>
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- <h2>The user interface</h2>
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- <p>In the current user interface, all replies related to an annotation are
- shown at the bottom of this annotation, in a thread section. Each item in the
- thread gives the date of the reply, the author, and the title of the reply.
- The content of any of these replies can be retrieved by double clicking the
- replies in the thread. The selected reply will be highlighted and presented
- in a reply window. When another selection is made the same reply window is
- used.</p>
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- <h2>Known issues: Incomplete threads</h2>
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- <p>There is no control yet for controlling which replies should be posted. In
- an ideal world, it should not be possible to save a reply to a reply if the
- previous reply was not saved in the same server. Likewise, if you delete a
- reply, you should delete all replies to this annotation. Not doing leads to
- having fragments of threads that cannot be correctly attached in the thread.
- For example, let R1 be the reply to annotation A1 and R2 a reply to R1. If
- you post R1, and let R2 be stored locally, then when you browse A1 and only
- download its local annotations, you will only see R2. At this point, Amaya
- does not know that R1 exists, so it assumes that R2 has lost its parent. We
- identify these "orphan" threads by putting a question mark symbol
- <strong>?</strong> in front of them. If later one, Amaya finds new thread
- items, for example, if you download R1, Amaya will then sort the thread view,
- inserting the threads as appropriately. In our example, R2 will become a
- child of R1, as expected.</p>
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