Richard Eckart de Castilho

@j-lnaddef I'm not maintaining automation support in WebAnno.

What do you mean by "combining"?

Yes, you can only connect spans via relations. However, a chain layer consists of spans _and_ links between the spans. Would simply using a chain layer not be sufficient for...

I am not sure what kind of problems we would run into if we allowed relations to connect to chain layers or if we allowed slot features to point to...

You can probably use the new _slot features_ feature in WebAnno 3 to model this, but it will take quite a few more clicks for the annotator than the idea...

This requires refactoring the unit test at least - or better - to refactor the entire CAS Doctor plugin mechanism which doesn't use Spring yet - it uses the Reflections...

The relevant code is in `de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.ui.annotation.detail.AnnotationFeatureForm.actionReplace(AjaxRequestTarget)`. You probably need to add another condition which checks the `AttachStatus` to see whether popping up the dialog is necessary.

@sdabhi23 if it is a thing that is annoying you, then it's still relevant ;) Btw. the relevant location in the master branch should be `de.tudarmstadt.ukp.clarin.webanno.ui.annotation.detail.AnnotationDetailEditorPanel.actionReplace(AjaxRequestTarget)`. The code was refactored...

Ok, so let me describe in my words how I understand what you wish: * you create an annotation on L1 and assign some tag L1_t1 or L2_t2 to it...

> Exactly! Currently it seems the only way to do it is to select the span twice and do the annotation separately. Exactly. The right sidebar (annotation detail editor panel...