We are concentrating not burning images in our ASP.NET web app and have both rectangle annotation, as well as redaction - which is nothing more than a rectangledata that is black-filled and canMove/canResize false.

The only problem I see at the moment is that you can right-click and delete the meant-to-be redaction.

How can I conditionally test to show/hide the AnnoContextMenu in the ContextMenuShow() call?

Thanks.

You could use an if - else block and a tooltip to do this:

On the server side, set all redaction tooltips to "redaction", and on the client side:

function OnAnnotationRightClicked(e){
   if (e.annotation.getToolTip() != 'redaction'){
      // show menu
   }
   else{
      alert('not authorized');
   }
}

OK that works cool.

WebAnnotationViewer.getAnnotations()[i].getType(); seems to work also.

Thanks.

getType will always return the base type of the annotation.  So if you've inherited a TextData object and called it MyCoolTextData, it will return TextData.

This could cause some confusion :)