# Combining 'text' and 'ner\_manual' interfaces with different text?

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/combining-text-and-ner-manual-interfaces-with-different-text/5290>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** usage, custom, front-end, solved\
**Created:** [February 8, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/combining-text-and-ner-manual-interfaces-with-different-text/5290 "2022-02-08T00:25:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![mwadhwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@mwadhwa](https://support.prodi.gy/u/mwadhwa)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/combining-text-and-ner-manual-interfaces-with-different-text/5290/1 "2022-02-08T00:25:18Z")

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Hi- thanks for all the documentation and a great software! I was wondering if there is a way to combine the 'text' and 'ner\_manual' interfaces and display different texts? It looks like they have the same key for 'text'.. any one tried this? any code samples I can refer to? thanks!

( if not, is there a solution where I can add a piece of text to the ner input which doesn't allow annotations? thanks!)

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**Author:** ![ljvmiranda921](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ljvmiranda921/32/3197_2.png) [@ljvmiranda921](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ljvmiranda921)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 5:46am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/combining-text-and-ner-manual-interfaces-with-different-text/5290/2 "2022-02-08T05:46:22Z")

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Hi @mwadhwa !

Perhaps you can try [combining interfaces via blocks](https://prodi.gy/docs/custom-interfaces#blocks)? Because `text` and `ner_manual` are annotation interfaces, you can then combine them together.

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> display different texts?

Not quite sure what this means, but if you're getting your text from two different sources, you can do some initial preprocessing on your end (i.e., formatting your JSON input into something that your blocks can "read"), and then create a custom recipe. Here's a [good example of how to put them together](https://prodi.gy/docs/custom-recipes#example-blocks). So in case the first solution didn't fit, you might want to create a custom recipe.

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**Author:** ![mwadhwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@mwadhwa](https://support.prodi.gy/u/mwadhwa)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/combining-text-and-ner-manual-interfaces-with-different-text/5290/3 "2022-02-08T13:55:23Z")

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Thanks for the reply!

I am aware of the interface blocks and i did write a custom recipe. However, I was asking if there is some way I can have different pieces of text in the _text_ view and the _ner\_manual_ view?  
Right now, if i have a key _"text"_ in my jsonl input, that information gets displayed in the _text_ as well as _ner\_manual_ view. Is there some way I can change the _"key"_ from which the view gets the information?

thanks! apologies if it's confusing.

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**Author:** ![mwadhwa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@mwadhwa](https://support.prodi.gy/u/mwadhwa)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/combining-text-and-ner-manual-interfaces-with-different-text/5290/4 "2022-02-08T14:23:53Z")

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I was actually able to combine the html and the ner manual interface to achieve what I mentioned above! thanks!

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 4:37pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/combining-text-and-ner-manual-interfaces-with-different-text/5290/5 "2022-02-09T16:37:12Z")

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Thanks for the update and yes, that would have been my suggestion as well 👍