Organization policy

When several annotators work on the same DatasetVersion, each of them tunes the Annotation tool to their own taste: a different Shape opacity, a different Label order, AI-assisted tools used by some and not by others. The resulting Annotation are harder to review and less consistent than they should be. The Policy page of the Organization settings lets you decide, for the whole Organization, which features of the Annotation tool are available and which display and behavior preferences every member starts with, or must keep.

1. Access the Policy page

The Policy page is listed under General in the Organization settings, next to Tags and Shortcuts. As for the rest of the Organization settings, only the Admin of the Organization can access it (see Configure an Organization).

The page holds two sections, Features and Preferences, each saved with its own Update button.

2. Turn features on or off

The Features section turns on or off, for every member of the Organization, two capabilities of the Annotation tool:

• Segment Anything (SAM): the AI-assisted drawing tools, with points, boxes, Label prompts, and text prompts (see Shape creation). When SAM is turned off, its tools are not offered in the Annotation tool at all.
• Video tracking: the propagation of a Shape across the frames of a video with the tracking model (see Annotation tool for video).

Turning one off is useful when your annotation guidelines require every Shape to be drawn by hand, for instance to compare manual and assisted annotation, or when a project must not rely on a model to produce its ground truth. Click on the Update button of the section to save.

3. Set the default preferences

The Preferences section holds the same preferences as the Settings panel of the Annotation tool, grouped in the same sections: General, Grid, Performances, Shapes, Labels, and Player. Each of them is detailed in Settings & Shortcuts.

The value you set here is the default value for every member of the Organization: it is the one they get in the Annotation tool until they change it from their own Settings panel. Setting sensible defaults, such as a Shape opacity that keeps the image readable or the Label Order your guidelines follow, spares every new annotator from configuring the tool before starting.

A few preferences of the Settings panel are personal only and are not listed on the Policy page, such as Cache size and the size of the grid. Display grid is listed but can only be set as a default.

Click on the Update button at the bottom of the section to save.

4. Enforce a preference

Next to each preference, the Enforced toggle turns its default value into a rule: once it is on, members can no longer change this preference from their own Settings panel, and the value of the Policy applies to everyone.

Enforce the preferences that change how Annotation are produced or reviewed, and leave the purely visual ones to each annotator. For instance:

• Lock shapes after creation, so that no Shape gets dragged by mistake on dense Asset.
• Shape opacity (%) and Label Order, so that every reviewer looks at the Asset under the same conditions.
• Auto move next on submit, so that the whole team goes through the queue of a Campaign the same way.