Identical layered spans not merging in curation mode

[lucasaubertin]

Describe the bug
Alright, this one might be attributed to my specific circumvention/bypass to link together spans that should be in different categories.

What is happening? I have "Merge completely agreeing non-stacked annotations" selected. When doing curation, agreed annotations are not merged.

Actual behavior:

Expected automatic behavior (currently done manually by clicking on the purple tag "TEMPS [1.00]"):

Proof of agreement (two annotators) and tag selected from the tagset linked to the layer:

Moreover the software indicates the following when opening the document to curate:

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Have the default custom.Span (internal name) (custom named UNK_span)
2. Add a feature "string" called SuperLayer that contains a tagset (SuperType) with 2 labels (Event/Entites)
3. In custom.Span, add another string feature called (Internal Name:) EntitesLayer calling the "Entites" tagset (where "TEMPS" is from)
4. Have a constraint rule that only displays the Entites tagset if "Entites" is selected from the SuperLayer (SuperLayer = "Entité" -> EntitesLayer = "TEMPS")
5. Annotate with multiple users
6. Go to curation of the document (settings: Curation page type - "Integrated view")
7. Observe the unmerged spans

Please complete the following information:

• Version and build ID: 38.5 (2025-11-11 21:36:14, build 8b041b5) (i'm planning to upgrade to 39.0 soon)

[reckart]

If you could provide a simple project export that follows your reproduction instructions by which I can reproduce this, that would help me a lot.

[lucasaubertin]

Hi, I finally had the time to create a (simplified) dummy project in 39.1. Turns out it seems to work just fine... So I do not know what I'm doing wrong in my actual project (that I'm not allowed to share).

At least it contains the "SuperLayer" thing that I've created in order to go around the limitation of linking different span layers together, that is now available as an experimental feature: https://inception-project.github.io/releases/39.2/docs/user-guide.html#_cross_layer_relations

project-dummy_project-2026-01-12-113339.zip

[reckart]

Have you considered creating a stripped down version of the main project - one that might be sharable?
Mind, there is also the option of non-publicly sharing the (stripped down) project directly with me by mail.
Unfortunately, unless I can reproduce the problem, I can't really fix it...

[lucasaubertin]

Yes but unfortunately, I'm not allowed to share anything in this project. As you can not reproduce the issue and I was not able to replicate it in my dummy project using the same methodology, I suggest that I close the issue. I may have missed something or did something wrong, I'll look into it as my project goes. Thank you for your time and consideration.