Annotation replies on WPV
There's an inconsistent approach in the platform to reply to annotations. For xml tables (that are accessed through a button on UI), a user needs to reply to annotation then "Enter" the field through the annotation reply.
For wpvs (also accessed through a button on UI), the approach is different. A user must click directly on the field instead of annotation.
This creates considerable confusion for our end users and is quite difficult to train users on. They don't know the difference between WPV and XML and they shouldn't have to.
The platform needs a consistent approach for annotation replies regardless of the field type.
Elijah Biggs
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Web page views are currently designed for read-only purposes, such as displaying information and generating PDF documents. They are currently not intended for editing content, which is why an option to open them within the Annotation UI was not included like the option was withing Advanced Data tables.
While it may be possible to customize a web page view to support some level of editing, this is not available out of the box and is not a capability all clients have. Because of this, it’s unclear whether introducing a general option for all clients to open what is typically a read-only view would be well received.
At this time, there are no planned changes to this behavior. However, if web page editing is introduced in the future, or if we release new feature for budget management, we would be open to revisiting this functionality.
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Pauline Zhang
commented
Pls keep consistent on the platform. Otherwise it will cause more confusions to the end users.