Unable to access setCustomData in WebViewer

[elice30p]

WebViewer Version: 8.0.1

Hi I am unable to use setCustomData() in WebViewer.

Here’s my code snippet

).then(instance => {
            const { Core } = instance;
            const { annotationManager, PDFNet } = Core;
            annotationManager.one("annotationChanged", () => {
                PDFNet.Annot.setCustomData("Key", props.value);        
            });
            

Is this the right way to call the method as it throws error “Property ‘setCustomData’ does not exist on type ‘typeof Annot’”

My use case is I want to add a custom attribute to each annotation added to the document which can be exported as xfdf. Can you please provide the correct implementation for my use case?

Thanks

[system]

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While you wait for one of our customer support representatives to get back to you, please check out some of these documentation pages:

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• Customize display authors for annotations - Map a userId to a Display Author
• Custom annotation appearances - Custom appearances with XFDF
• Import/export annotations - Advanced annotation loading
• Using XFDF format to import & export annotation data - In WebViewer

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• Core - options
• DocumentXFDFRetriever
• Core.Tools. RubberStampCreateTool - options

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[Sardor_Isakov]

You probably using the wrong API, you need to use annotation.setCustomData API like as following:

    const { annotationManager } = instance.Core;
    annotationManager.addEventListener('annotationChanged', (annotations, action) => {
      if (action === 'add') {
        console.log('this is a change that added annotations');
        annotations.forEach((annotation) => {
             annotation.setCustomData('key', 'data')
         });
      }
    });