This comes from https://skyline.ms/announcements/home/support/thread.view?rowId=35283

The idea is to make it easy to populate annotations during transition list import. We do have the Note column but it's not very fine grained.

This will probably also trigger the need for a redesign of the transition list import column picker, which is already getting to be ungainly. I'm imagining moving from a simple checkbox list to a dialog subdivided into various panels for precursor, fragment, annotations etc.

This might also eventually be the place where users could define column header synonyms.

This one is way more do-able now that the revised column picker is in place.

I've been musing on this for a while - one potential pitfall is identically name annotations on different node types. I'd say the lowest level node gets the annotation in that case (e.g. the transition rather than the molecule, if both node types happen to have an identically named annotation)

Also see support request https://skyline.ms/announcements/home/support/thread.view?rowId=55144

Brendan rightly expresses concern that we not overwhelm the use with all possible options at once - the current column picker drop-down list already presents 25 options, we'd probably want to make any additions via cascading menus - probably one each for Molecule Annotations, Precursor Annotations, and Transition Annotations.

See also https://skyline.ms/announcements/home/support/thread.view?rowId=55263 which makes particular reference to the idea of note colors as a sorting mechanism