Where to setup a new annotation server to connect?

ELAN
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ELAN 6.8:
File - Annotation Server - Export Annotations to server…
But nowhere to setup a new annotation server to connect.

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Hello,

Annotation server that is currently supported is AnnoRepo, so the setup is outside of ELAN.
You can go through the annorepo GitHub, on how to install and create a local annorepo server.

Best,
Divya

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Thank you! Do you mean ELAN can only connect to the localhost Annorepo server? Because in the ELAN dialog, we can only input the Authentication Bearer Key. BTW: Is the Authentication Bearer Key the AR_ROOT_API_KEY in the annorepo doc?

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Hello,

ELAN can also connect to the central AnnoRepo server.
For central AnnoRepo server which runs with withAuthenciation: true, you will need to request for the Authentication bearer token from AnnoRepo.

If you want to have your own annorepo server, then you can try installing the local AnnoRepo server from their installation guidelines. You can run the local AnnoRepo with command : make run-server-without-auth, then you won’t need the bearer token, ELAN will also won’t ask you to enter the bearer token in this case.

But to make local annorepo work with ELAN, you need to alter a property in elan.properties file.
Edit the file elan.properties in the app folder in ELAN’s installation folder: You can open this file in the text Editor and uncomment the line AnnotationServer.URL=http://localhost:8080 to make local server connect to ELAN.

Best,
Divya

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I see. Thank you very much!