Switching layers without discarding features of current layer

[zhh210]

For Webanno 3.4.6 standalone version, when I'm trying to switching the layer to add annotation in another layer for the same span, I got the message:

You are about to replace an annotation of type Risk with a new annotation of type factor_sentiment. This action will discard all feature values and delete 0 relation(s)/link(s) attached to current Risk annotation. Are you sure?

There're only two options confirm or cancel. Is it possible to switch layers without deleting the annotation for current layer?

[reckart]

Open the settings dialog on the annotation page and activate "remember layer" - then you get the behavior I assume you are expecting.

[reckart]

In WebAnno 3.5.0 (once released), it will be possible to make "remember layer" the global default by adding ui.brat.rememberLayer=true to the settings.properties file.

[zhh210]

without remember layer, switching layers will get an message:

You are about to replace an annotation of type old_layer with a new annotation of type new_layer. This action will discard all feature values and delete 0 relation(s)/link(s) attached to current Risk annotation. Are you sure?

but with remember layer, the new layer will memorize the tagset associated with the old layer. Any workaround to allow selecting new layer's tagset rather than the old one?

[reckart]

@zhh210 What do you mean by "memorize the tageset"? Could you please open a new issue and explain 1) what you do, 2) what the expected behavior is, 3) what the actual behavior is?

[zhh210]

@reckart I created another ticket #1107 to explain the wanted behavior when switching layers.