Annotations in design mode?

Is there any way to persist Annotations in design mode? I'm considering using them to keep track of measure-group specific state, but I'm worried that every time I re-deploy my cube, I'll lose this info.

Does anyone have experience using Annotations? Are they only exposed via the AMO OM?

In design mode, you can switch to raw XMLA code view by right clicking on the object. You can select "view code" and you'll see XML representation of the object.

You got to be careful modifying the XML directly such that if something goes wrong, you might loose consistency of your object. But on the other hand XML representation gives you power to access any property (such as annotations ) directly without UI.

Again. Be careful with using raw XML code view, but if you feel comfortable with modifying XML, adding new tags you should be able to add annotations to pretty much any object in your database.

Edward.
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|||A collegue and I are looking at possibly adding this feature to BIDS through an open source project we are working on at http://www.codeproject.com/BIDSHelper unfortuntately this is not one of the features we have in the pipeline for the first release, but it is one of the things we have on our list of possible features.|||The BIDS helpers look pretty cool, thanks Darren.|||

The ability to edit annotations is finally coded in the BIDS Helper project. See:

http://www.codeplex.com/bidshelper/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Show%20Extra%20Properties&referringTitle=Home

Hope that's helpful.