iOS app - not showing all annotations

constancappcarvalho · March 21, 2021

Hi

I’m highlighting a PDF on Zotero for iPad, but the left sidebar is not showing all the phrases I’ve highlighted:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjsmmAbO5NonkOQ2qzmuqRAtBynM2w

I also can’t select them to edit or delete. Is this expected behavior?

Also, are there any news on the few things I’ve pointed out on the first day? Here: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/88305/zotero-for-ipad-first-impressions

Most importantly, now that I’ve used the app a bit more (and I love it), I still find editing and deleting highlights takes too many clicks

dstillman · March 21, 2021

Did you make those highlights on this device?

If you close the sidebar, what happens if you tap on them?

If you force-quit the app, does it still happen?

constancappcarvalho · March 21, 2021

I made the highlights on this device. If I close the sidebar, I seem to only be able to select the first highlight (the one that shows in the sidebar). It’s the same with the sidebar open. It’s still happening after I force close the app

dstillman · March 21, 2021

Do those unselectable annotations show up in the desktop app?

constancappcarvalho · March 21, 2021

I don't have Zotero beta installed on this PC (since I'm in the middle of a project and I'm afraid of messing anything up), so I'll have to check later and get back to you. Unless you think my library won't run many risks if I only use the beta version everywhere from now on

constancappcarvalho · March 23, 2021

@dstillman Apologies for the delay, but only now I had the time to install the Zotero beta on the PC I was using.

No annotations are showing on the file. Neither the ones that show correctly on the iPad nor the ones that don't...

I've checked that sync was complete on Windows, and they still show on the iPad the same way they were on the screenshot from Sunday

EDIT: Nevermind. They're showing now. But in the same way as in the iPad...

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjsmmAbO5NonkOlfYn0Ru-aCaduyyw?e=iqg9JY

dstillman · March 23, 2021

It looks like a bunch of nearby highlights were somehow merged — you can see on desktop that the bounding box is around the whole set of highlights.

If you expand the annotation widget in the sidebar on desktop, do you see extracted text for all of the highlights, or only the text from the first highlight?

dstillman · March 23, 2021

@constancappcarvalho: And could we also see a screenshot from iOS where the annotation is selected?

constancappcarvalho · March 23, 2021

I don't know if this is what you mean, but I only see the first highlight

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjsmmAbO5NonkOpPkda2d6VC-WkxDw?e=Ne9ATt

constancappcarvalho · March 23, 2021

Regarding the screenshot from iOS, I can't right now, but the selection is similar. The box goes around the paragraph like in the desktop

constancappcarvalho · March 24, 2021

Here is the screenshot from iOS

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjsmmAbO5NonkOs-XqrP0TSAQvAAFw?e=I96hBD

dstillman · April 1, 2021

Let us know if you're still still seeing this in the latest build, and if so if you're able to reproduce it.

constancappcarvalho · April 3, 2021

The annotations on the document in question are still the same, nothing changed... But so far it hasn’t happened on any other document

constancappcarvalho · April 4, 2021

@dstillman Obviously, as soon as I posted this, it happened again in another document:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjsmmAbO5NonkfBg8r20edj5YST5hA?e=73Z0jy

The only thing I did was highlight the phrase "Every single object (...) by a plan." lift the pencil and separately highlight the phrase "Nothing gets done without one."

It's behaving exactly like the other one: when I select one of the phrases, it draws a rectangle around both, and the phrase "Nothing gets done without one." doesn't appear on the annotations sidebar nor I can select it independently...

constancappcarvalho · April 11, 2021

@dstillman do you have news on this?

dstillman · April 15, 2021

There were a couple issues here. The incomplete text should already be fixed, and the unwanted merging of nearby highlights will be fixed in the next build.

constancappcarvalho · April 17, 2021

@dstillman "The incomplete text should already be fixed"

The annotation text on both files is still incomplete, both on Windows and iOS. It's still the same as in the screenshots.

Should those annotations already be displaying correctly (meaning showing all text highlighted), or is the fix only for new annotations made after the fix?

dstillman · April 17, 2021

Existing annotations won’t be changed.