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In order to To help you have the best experience of Weava and your use of highlights and annotations, we have made it easier to update the source of a website and PDF, so that you are able to can see your highlights correctly even if the website URL or local PDF file path changes. You can do so by navigating to the Weava dashboard , and click “Edit” on the respective website or file.

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Unless you are uploading PDFs directly to Weava, the website or file will have a “source reference” that may require an update, such as if a website changes its URL or if you move your local PDF to another local folder on your computer. Here is a brief summary:

• Local PDF: For Local PDFs, the “source” refers to the file path on your computer to where the file is stored. This needs to be correct or else Weava will not be able to locate and open the PDF on subsequent visits. More information about how you update the PDF file path below.

• Online PDF or website: For online PDFs and websites, the “source” refers to the URL of the respective website or PDF you are making the highlights and annotations on. This needs to be correct or else Weava will only be able to show you your previous highlights saved in the sidebar, but not be able to correctly visually render these with colours colors on the website/PDF you are looking at. More information about how you update the URL is below.

• Uploaded PDFs to Weava: Uploaded PDFs to Weava are referenced directly within our database, and there is never a need to update these URLs as it will always render the highlights correctly (a benefit to uploading to Weava).

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It is always recommended to upload PDFs directly into Weava. However, we do enable the possibility for anyone to directly open local PDFs with Weava, but this requires care in folder management and file naming to ensure that Weava is able to can correctly fetch and render the PDF file. After having made some highlights with Weava, if you move the local PDF to a different folder, or rename the file, then you are likely to encounter an error on your subsequent visit to that respective file in Weava. The error will read something along the lines of “An error occurred while loading the PDF. The PDF link may have been changed, please double-check: [file path to the original location of your file]”.

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1. Imagine you have downloaded a file called “Consent_Form_Employer” to a folder called “Download”, and you thereafter open the file with Weava and make some highlights. The file path source would then be D:/Download/Consent_Form_Employer.pdf.

   

2. However, imagine the day after you move the local file to the folder called MyFolder. Now, if you try to open the PDF with Weava, you will receive the following error (image below) because Weava is still looking for your PDF in the “Download” folder but is unable to find it.

   

3. In order to To fix this, you will need to update the source file path to show the new location of your local file. In our example, this means updating it to “D:/MyFolder/Consent_Form_Employer” because we had moved the file inside our MyFolder folder inside our D drive.

   

   After clicking “Save” with the new correctly updated file path, we are now able to open the PDF file again and to see our previous highlights.

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Fortunately, Weava enables you to update the source URL for whenever a URL has changed.

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1. Imagine that the original URL source for your highlights were was “https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191217-the-mental-hack”.

   

2. In our example, let’s imagine that BBC realizes that they want to change their article category from “worklife” “work-life” to “work”, or perhaps they updated the article and wanted to change the date data representation in the URL from 20191217 to 20200112. If so, the URL that Weava is looking for is different than the URL the content is currently on, which means you are not able to see the highlights visually rendered anymore.

3. Assuming that BBC changed its URL category from “worklife” “work-life” to “work”, the new URL you would have to update in the “Edit Source” feature on Weava would be: “https://www.bbc.com/work/article/20191217-the-mental-hack”.

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