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Add electronic seal fields

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SigningHub allows you to add electronic seals in a workflow, Electronic Seal (eSeal), Advanced Electronic Seal (AdESeal), Qualified Electronic Seal (QESeal) are the levels of assurance available for an electronic seal. Adding electronic seals will consume signatures quota of your (document owner's) account. The option to add an electronic seal field will only appear if an electronic seal has been .


Add an electronic seal field in the template

After you have:

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  1. Select the document from the right panel of document viewer screen, on which electronic seal is required.

  2. Select the electronic seal from the right side of document viewer screen, for whom you want to add an electronic seal field.

  3. Click the "Electronic Seal" option, and drop it on the document.

  4. You can drag and drop the field anywhere in the document by using your mouse. The grid lines will assist you in better alignment of fields accordingly. Resize the field with respect to its height and width or use the bottom right corner to resize it diagonally as required. The system will remember the field size and its display preferences (i.e. visible or invisible) for adding new In-Person signature fields on the same documents package. By default, upon dropping the "In-Person Signature" field, the edit dialog is automatically displayed. However, if the user is only allowed one level of assurance, the dialog will not be automatically displayed.

  5. Click "Save".

  6. To add multiple electronic seal fields, repeat the above steps. However, in a single document, only one electronic seal field is allowed per electronic seal. A second electronic seal will have to be added in order to add a second electronic seal field.


Delete an electronic seal field

  1. Click on the electronic seal field.

  2. Select "Remove" option. The field will be deleted from the document.


Electronic Seal Field

Fields
Description

Recipient

A read-only field to display the name of the added electronic seal and no email information will be displayed.

Level of Assurance

The "Level of Assurance" field will be auto populated from the electronic seal profile and the field will be disabled.

Visible Signatures

  • Disable the "Visible" option, if you require an invisible electronic seal. An invisible electronic seal entails all the characteristics of an electronic seal and is duly verifiable like a visible electronic seal. However, it does not have any appearance on the document. When an electronic seal field is marked as invisible, an eye icon is placed in the electronic seal field (as shown with the red arrow):

Do not automatically show this dialog when a signature field is added

When this option is enabled, the "Edit Electronic Seal Field" dialog will not appear automatically, every time an electronic seal field is dropped. This option is helpful when you need to drop several electronic seal fields on the document.

Details Tab

Field Name

An auto-generated (unique) field name which is used when you need to sign this form field through the API calls. You can change the name as required, but make sure the uniqueness of a field name is not compromised i.e., two or more fields in a document cannot have the same field name. This field is only available when the status of a document is Draft.

Dimensions

Use this section to relatively set the on-screen and PDF coordinates/position (Left, Top, Width and Height) of the signature field. However, you can also manually move the field to the desired position in a document using drag and drop and these coordinates will be updated accordingly. These coordinates are only available when the status of a document is Draft.

Save and Cancel buttons

Click the "Save" button to save the configurations, or click the "Cancel" button to close this dialog.

You can only edit the on-screen dimensions but not the PDF dimensions.


  1. After sharing the document, when it is the turn of the electronic seal for signing, the electronic seal is automatically signed using the configured settings, without any user interaction.

For a electronic seal, this field will be available when you are allowed () to add invisible electronic seal on a document. When available:

Enable the "Visible" option, if you require a visible electronic seal. This electronic seal will have a proper appearance on the document as configured in the settings.

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