Make annotations visible for all the users and make annotation toggle icon and pop up message invisible

[UPASANA2]

How do I make annotations visible for all the users and make annotation toggle icon and pop up message invisible?

[Paul Ciarfella]

I'm running Fuji patch 2.   There are two system User Preferences already defined.   I set the values as follows and the warning disappeared:
glide.ui.annotations.show_hidden_msg = false

glide.ui.show_annotations = true

But the ? icon remains.   There are some responses in the Eureka issues list about how to hide the icon.   I've not tried any.   See reply #60 from Robert Mitchell.

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[Community Alums]

Hey, this looks like a pretty old post but just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in here. I was looking for the same thing and managed to get it from the thread Paul listed.

Just create a client script set to run on load with this:

$j("button#header_toggle_annotations").hide();

[jean-lucchatton]

Hi,

There is a slight change to do in your code - perhaps needed by the Geneva release.

$j("#header_toggle_annotations").parent().hide();

Jean-Luc

[florin_danis]

Hi guys.

Any news concerning the first part of the request: "make annotation visible for all the users"?

Paul, about your initial suggestion of using "SN.formAnnotations.show()", how exactly should be used? I couldn't find any documentation about formAnnotations. What kind of object is SN and where it is defined? Could you please provide an example of this working?

As I see, when toggling annotation on and off, a record in sys_user_preference is inserted/updated with name = glide.ui.show_annotations.

One solution I see is to create a script to insert/update a record in this table, with Value = true, for all users.

Not sure if other tables are not affected by pressing the ? button to toggle the annotation on and off.

[florin_danis]

Ok, I found how to make annotations visible by default for all users.

In "User Preferences" update the default system entry (the one that has Name = "glide.ui.show_annotations" and no value for User) by setting Value = true and delete any user related records (the ones that have Name = "glide.ui.show_annotations" and a user specified in the User column).

This way, every user that will log next time will get the system preference.