Unable to Add Relations When NER Layer is Set to Read-Only

[salvadora]

Describe the bug
When the Named Entity Recognition (NER) layer is configured as "read-only" to restrict annotators from editing entities, the functionality to add relations between entities is also disabled. This issue occurs despite the intended behavior being to allow adding relations while keeping the NER layer non-editable. As a result, the annotators are unable to complete relation annotation tasks if the NER layer is set to "read-only.

To Reproduce

1. Create NER and Relation layer
2. Annotate NE in a document
3. Click the checkbox 'Read-only' for NER layer
4. Try to annotate relations

Expected behavior
The annotator should be able to add relations to annotated named entities

System information:

• 25.1
• Linux
• Chrome

[salvadora]

I just updated Inception to 34.5, and there the problem does not occur.

[reckart]

I'll verify and close the issue.