React Native Guides Creation policy

Annotation and Form Creation Policy

Starting with 3.2.0, ComPDF React Native SDK provides creationConfig to control what happens after reader tools create an annotation or form field.

Configure Creation Behavior

import { ComPDFKit, CPDFReaderView }
  from '@compdfkit_pdf_sdk/react_native';

export function PdfReader({ path }: { path: string }) {
  const configuration = ComPDFKit.getDefaultConfig({
    creationConfig: {
      continuousCreation: false,
      autoSelectCreatedAnnotation: true,
    },
  });
  return <CPDFReaderView document={path} configuration={configuration}
    style={{ flex: 1 }} />;
}

Option	Default	Description
continuousCreation	true	Keep the current creation tool active. When false, exit that tool but remain in annotation or form mode
autoSelectCreatedAnnotation	true	Select the new object automatically. When false, show no focus frame, editing handles, or property panel, and emit no selection event

The options are independent. Use false, true for single creation followed by immediate editing; use true, false for continuous creation without selecting new objects.

Scope

The configuration is applied when the reader is created. Recreate the reader with a new configuration to change the policy. It affects interactive creation with tools, not programmatic methods such as addAnnotations() or addWidgets().

Disabling automatic selection does not suppress creation events. Custom workflows must still handle creation callbacks. See Custom Annotation Creation Workflows.