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Review, Markup, and Approval

Online Collaboration Essentials

You may also use the

create customized commenting and review within browser-based workflows. You can do

this by setting up a SOAP-based annotation store on the server using the

method requires three parameters:

: The internal name for the annotation store.

: The display name for the annotation store.

: The definition for the new

store class must contain the following definitions for the functions used

to add, delete, update, and enumerate through the array of annotations:

: Communicates with the Web service to request the array of annotations

stored on the server. It is used when the PDF document is loaded for online review, or

when the user clicks

: Passes the annotation data to the collaboration server so that it can be

: Uploads new and modified annotations to the server.

SDKSampleSOAPAnnotStore

, as shown in the sample code below, is defined

sdkSOAPCollabSample.js

in the Acrobat SDK, and contains complete definitions of the

three functions described above.

The sample code below provides a standard example of how to use the

objects to customize your online collaborative review. Note that all of the reviewers must

have a copy of the JavaScript collaboration store code. In Acrobat 7.0, the

collaboration store type allows you to put the JavaScript on the server. The store type used

and the setting is a URL to the JavaScript file:

// Here is the URL for a SOAP HTTP service:

var mySetting = "http://sampleSite/comments.asmx?WSDL";

// Here is the internal name for the collaborative store:

var myType = "mySOAPCollabSample";

// Set the connection settings for the SOAP collab store:

Collab.setStoreSettings(mySetting, myType);

// Set the default collab store:

Collab.defaultStore = myType;

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