Get selected annotation id for modal

Technical Support
1

Which product are you using?
PDF.js Express Plus

PDF.js Express Version
8.7.0

Detailed description of issue
Can you provide a code sample to get the id of the currently selected annotation? I want to pass this to an external modal via querystring to bind the id of the annotation with an id from our own system.

Expected behaviour

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Modal in action with our system id displayed.

Code snippet
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Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out to pdf.js express forums,

You can find the properties for an annotation here:
https://pdfjs.express/api/Core.Annotations.Annotation.html

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const documentViewer = instance.Core.documentViewer;
const annotationManager = documentViewer.getAnnotationManager();
const selectedAnnotation = annotationManager.getSelectedAnnotations()[0]
selectedAnnotation.Id

Best regards,
Kevin Kim

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Hi Kevin, yes that was it thanks.

Best regards.