Exporting Annotations

You can export and download all the annotations in either a single 360 or a Collection of 360s as a table (CSV, HTML, XLSX, PDF) which you can save (or send). Anyone with the file can now reference the annotations in context at a click. This can be very useful for emailing a set of annotations or attaching it to a report or document. 

Exported Fields

The fields that will be exported are:

  • Thumbnail image (or URL): The thumbnail image of the annotation area. In the HTML export, the image is also linked to the annotation itself, so clicking on the image takes you directly to the annotation in context
  • Title: The title of the annotation
  • Description: Annotation text
  • Link: The Shared Link that links to that specific annotation

If there are attachments, the following fields will be appended for each attachment:

  • content_type: The type of the attachment
  • source_url: Link to the attachment
  • filename: The name of the attachment
  • text: The associated caption

Note: Exporting the list of annotations in any format (HTML, CSV, XLSX or PDF) will enable a share link for the underlying 360 (this is how the links back to the annotations work). If you want to disable that link, you can do so by going into the “Share Link” dialog and disabling the link. 

Export Formats

The following formats are currently supported:

  • CSV (paid accounts only)
  • HTML
  • XLSX (Pro or Business accounts only)
  • PDF (Pro or Business accounts only)

PDF Export

PDF export requires a Pro or Business account. In the Export Annotations dialog of a single 360 or of a Collection, choose PDF from the same file format list as HTML, CSV and XLSX. On other account types, choosing PDF shows an upgrade message instead.

For each 360 that has annotations, the PDF shows the 360's caption as a heading, followed by a table with one row per annotation and the columns Preview (the annotation's thumbnail image), Title, Description, Link (the link that opens that annotation) and Media (the type, file name, link and caption of each attachment).

If an annotation's description is too long for one page, its row continues on the next page, and the column headings repeat at the top of each page. Chinese, Japanese and Korean text is displayed with fonts supplied by your PDF reader, so it can look slightly different from one PDF viewer to another.

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