Using Annotation Lists

Use the Annotation List screen to identify specific annotation content and build informative reports

About The Annotations List

The Annotations List is a collection of all annotations on a Case. Filtering the Annotations List allows you to limit displayed annotations to specific annotated content for focused review.

Annotation Lists can be easily filtered and sorted, and you can format lists to display desired content in your preferred order. You can save lists to enable easy access to formatted and/or filtered annotations to accommodate different review requirements – for example you may create a view for an issue chronology, and a different view to track witness preparation lists or diagnostic findings.

Annotation Lists can be exported in various formats, including Word and Outlook.

You can create custom Annotation List views to precisely set the columns and sort order of chronology reports exported to Word. 

Accessing the Annotations List

The Annotations List view can be accessed by selecting the Annotations option on your Blue Case ribbon. You must select a Case Binder to access the blue Case Ribbon.

 

Filtering Annotations

Annotation filtering can be accomplished by a combination of the terms you type in the Quick filter and the options available in the Filter drop-down, offering considerably more flexibility in determining the scope of Annotations identified in a search.

Filters may be applied cumulatively, allowing you to filter by any or all filter categories at a time.

HOW FILTERS ARE AGGREGATED: Primafact applies “and” coding for multiple coding values: e.g. selecting Pink Annotation Color and Favorable: Displays results with BOTH values (must be coded pink and favorable)

Multiple selections within a coding variable (e.g. annotation color) – will be an “or” selection, identifying annotations coded with any of the selected colors within that variable.

The Annotations Toolbar

The Annotations toolbar features a number of tools to help filter and review annotations.

The Case Dropdown allows you to display all annotations in a Case or display only annotations found in the selected binder

   

The Quick Text Filter filters to annotations including your specified text. Note only fields appearing on your List will be searched. (For example you might be looking for “Lee,” a Report Author. If Report Author is not a displayed field on your list, this annotation will not be identified.

*NOTE the Annotation List Quick Text Filter only searches Annotation Content, and not text in the associated document.

The Home View button returns you to your default Annotation Home List View

The Saved Views button allows you to instantly switch your list view screen to the format of a Saved View, or to save and format new views

 

The Annotation Color Dropdown Filter allows you to filter to annotations coded by selected color(s)

The Issue filter allows you to filter to select Annotation Issues

The Favorability dropdown allows you to filter to annotations coded with adversarial values

The Importance filter allow you to filter to annotations marked Important

 The Date filter allows you to filter by Annotation Event Date (Including Before and after the Date of Loss assigned to your Case)            

The Current Document button filters to display only other annotations on the same document as your selected annotation

The Trash button deletes your selected annotation(s).

*NOTE: You can’t restore deleted annotations.

The Additional Filters dropdown allows you to filter and group your displayed annotations by a number of additional attributes, including Binder and Tab location

The Grouping icon (located as a menu option within the Additional Filter dropdown) features a dropdown that allows you to sort the displayed annotations in groupings such as Color, Document or Author. To clear the sort, select “No Grouping.” The dropdown menu also includes expand and collapse icons that you can use to expand and collapse all displayed groupings.

 The Export button lets you export lists to Word, Outlook and Excel and other formats 

This button pops out your list into a separate Primafact window.

Hide/Show Preview will reveal or remove the document preview pane from the Binder View.