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Configuring the Adobe Acrobat Sign environment

 

Adobe Acrobat Sign Guide

What's New

  1. Pre-Release Notes
  2. Release Notes
  3. Important Notifications

Get Started

  1. Quick start guide for administrators
  2. Quick start guide for users
  3. For Developers
  4. Video tutorial library
  5. FAQ

Administer

  1. Admin Console Overview
  2. User Management
    1. Adding users
      1. Add a User
      2. Add Users in Bulk
      3. Add Users from your Directory
      4. Add Users from MS Azure Active Directory
    2. Create function-focused users
      1. Technical accounts - API driven
      2. Service accounts - Manually driven
    3. Check for users with provisioning errors
    4. Change Name/Email Address
    5. Edit a user's group membership
    6. Edit a user's group membership through the group interface
    7. Promote a user to an admin role
    8. User Identity Types and SSO
    9. Switch User Identity
    10. Authenticate Users with MS Azure
    11. Authenticate Users with Google Federation
    12. Product Profiles
    13. Login Experience 
  3. Account/Group Settings
    1. Settings Overview
    2. Global Settings
      1. Account tier and ID
      2. New Recipient Experience
      3. Self Signing Workflows
      4. Send in Bulk
      5. Web Forms
      6. Custom Send Workflows
      7. Power Automate Workflows
      8. Library Documents
      9. Collect form data with agreements
      10. Limited Document Visibility
      11. Attach a PDF copy of the signed agreement 
      12. Include a link in the email
      13. Include an image in the email
      14. Files attached to email will be named as
      15. Attach audit reports to documents
      16. Merge multiple documents into one
      17. Download individual documents
      18. Upload a signed document
      19. Delegation for users in my account
      20. Allow external recipients to delegate
      21. Authority to sign
      22. Authority to send
      23. Power to add Electronic Seals
      24. Set a default time zone
      25. Set a default date format
      26. Users in Multiple Groups (UMG)
        1. Upgrade to use UMG
      27. Group Administrator Permissions
      28. Replace recipient
      29. Audit Report
        1. Overview
        2. Allow unauthenticated access on the transaction verification page
        3. Include reminders
        4. Include view events
        5. Include agreement page/attachment count
      30. In Product Messaging and Guidance
      31. Accessible PDFs
      32. New authoring experience
      33. Healthcare customer
    3. Account Setup
      1. Add logo
      2. Customize company Hostname/URL    
      3. Add company name
      4. Post agreement URL redirect
    4. Signature Preferences
      1. Well formatted signatures
      2. Allow recipients to sign by
      3. Signers can change their name
      4. Allow recipients to use their saved signature
      5. Custom Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure
      6. Navigate recipients through form fields
      7. Decline to sign
      8. Allow Stamps workflows
      9. Require signers to provide their Title or Company
      10. Allow signers to print and place a written signature
      11. Show messages when e-signing
      12. Require signers to use a mobile device to create their signature
      13. Request IP address from signers
      14. Exclude company name and title from participation stamps
    5. Digital Signatures
      1. Overview
      2. Download and sign with Acrobat
      3. Sign with Cloud Signatures
      4. Include metadata for Identity Providers
      5. Restricted Cloud Signatures Providers
    6. Electronic Seals
    7. Digital Identity
      1. Digital Identity Gateway
      2. Identity Check policy
    8. Report Settings
      1. New report experience
      2. Classic report settings
    9. Security Settings
      1. Single Sign-on settings
      2. Remember-me settings
      3. Login password policy
      4. Login password strength
      5. Web session duration
      6. PDF encryption type
      7. API
      8. User and group info access
      9. Allowed IP Ranges
      10. Account Sharing
      11. Account sharing permissions
      12. Agreement sharing controls
      13. Signer identity verification
      14. Agreement signing password
      15. Document password strength
      16. Block signers by Geolocation
      17. Phone Authentication
      18. Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA)
      19. Allow page extraction
      20. Document link expiration
      21. Upload a client certificate for webhooks/callbacks
      22. Timestamp
    10. Send settings
      1. Show Send page after login
      2. Require recipient name when sending
      3. Lock name values for known users
      4. Allowed recipient roles
      5. Allow e-Witnesses
      6. Recipient groups
      7. Required fields
      8. Attaching documents
      9. Field flattening
      10. Modify Agreements
      11. Agreement name
      12. Languages
      13. Private messages
      14. Allowed signature types
      15. Reminders
      16. Signed document password protection
      17. Send Agreement Notification through
      18. Signer identification options
        1. Overview
        2. Signing password
        3. One-Time Password via Email
        4. Acrobat Sign authentication
        5. Phone authentication
        6. Cloud-based digital signature
        7. Knowledge-based authentication
        8. Government ID
        9. Signer Identity reports
      19. Content Protection
      20. Enable Notarize transactions
      21. Document Expiration
      22. Preview, position signatures, and add fields
      23. Signing order
      24. Liquid mode
      25. Custom workflow controls
      26. Upload options for the e-sign page
      27. Post-sign confirmation URL redirect
    11. Message Templates
    12. Bio-Pharma Settings
      1. Overview
      2. Enforce identity authentication
      3. Signing reasons
    13. Workflow Integration
    14. Notarization Settings
    15. Payments Integration
    16. Signer Messaging
    17. SAML Settings
      1. SAML Configuration
      2. Install Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service
      3. Install Okta
      4. Install OneLogin
      5. Install Oracle Identity Federation
    18. Data Governance
    19. Time Stamp Settings
    20. External Archive
    21. Account Languages
    22. Email Settings
      1. Email header/footer images
      2. Permit individual user email footers
      3. Customize the Signature Requested email
      4. Customize the To and CC fields
      5. Enable Linkless Notifications
      6. Customize email templates
    23. Migrating from echosign.com to adobesign.com
    24. Configure Options for Recipients
  4. Guidance for regulatory requirements
    1. Accessibility
      1. Accessibility Compliance
      2. Create accessible forms with Acrobat desktop
      3. Create accessible AcroForms
    2. HIPAA
    3. GDPR
      1. GDPR Overview
      2. Redact a user
      3. Redact a user's agreements    
    4. 21 CFR part 11 and EudraLex Annex 11
      1. 21 CRF part 11 validation pack
      2. 21 CFR and EudraLex Annex 11 handbook
      3. Analysis of shared responsibilities
    5. Healthcare customers
    6. IVES support
    7. "Vaulting" agreements
    8. EU/UK considerations
      1. EU/UK Cross-border transactions and eIDAS
      2. HMLR requirements for deeds signed electronically
      3. The impact of Brexit on e-signature laws in the UK
  5. Download Agreements in Bulk
  6. Claim your domain 
  7. Report Abuse links

Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements

  1. Recipient Options
    1. Cancel an email reminder
    2. Options on the e-signing page
      1. Overview of the e-sign page
      2. Open to read the agreement without fields
      3. Decline to sign an agreement
      4. Delegate signing authority
      5. Restart the agreement
      6. Download a PDF of the agreement
      7. View the agreement history
      8. View the agreement messages
      9. Convert from an electronic to a written signature
      10. Convert from a written to an electronic signature 
      11. Navigate the form fields
      12. Clear the data from the form fields
      13. E-sign page magnification and navigation
      14. Change the language used in the agreement tools and information
      15. Review the Legal Notices
      16. Adjust Acrobat Sign Cookie Preferences
  2. Send Agreements  
    1. Send page overview
    2. Send an agreement only to yourself
    3. Send an agreement to others
    4. Written Signatures
    5. Recipient signing order
    6. Send in Bulk
      1. Overview of the Send in Bulk feature
      2. Send in Bulk - Configure a parent template
      3. Send in Bulk - Configure the CSV file
      4. Cancel a Send in Bulk transaction
      5. Add reminders to Send in Bulk
      6. Reporting for Send in Bulk
  3. Authoring fields into documents
    1. In-app authoring environment
      1. Automatic field detection
      2. Drag and drop fields using the authoring environment
      3. Assign form fields to recipients
      4. The Prefill role
      5. Apply fields with a reusable field template
      6. Transfer fields to a new library template
      7. Updated authoring environment when sending agreements
    2. Create forms with text tags
    3. Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
      1. AcroForm creation
      2. Creating accessible PDFs
    4. Fields
      1. Field types
        1. Common field types
        2. In-line Images
        3. Stamp Images
      2. Field content appearance
      3. Field validations
      4. Masked fields values
      5. Setting show/hide conditions
      6. Calculated fields 
    5. Authoring FAQ
  4. Sign Agreements
    1. Sign agreements sent to you
    2. Fill & Sign
    3. Self-signing
  5. Manage Agreements
    1. Manage page overview
    2. Delegate agreements
    3. Replace Recipients
    4. Limit Document Visibility 
    5. Cancel an Agreement 
    6. Create new reminders
    7. Review reminders
    8. Cancel a reminder
    9. Access Power Automate flows
    10. More Actions...
      1. How search works
      2. View an agreement
      3. Create a template from an agreement
      4. Hide/Unhide agreements from view
      5. Upload a signed agreement
      6. Modify a sent agreement's files and fields
      7. Edit a recipient's authentication method
      8. Add or modify an expiration date
      9. Add a Note to the agreement
      10. Share an individual agreement
      11. Unshare an agreement
      12. Download an individual agreement
      13. Download the individual files of an agreement
      14. Download the Audit Report of an agreement
      15. Download the field content of an agreement
  6. Audit Report
  7. Reporting and Data exports
    1. Overview
    2. Grant users access to reporting
    3. Report charts
      1. Create a new report
      2. Agreement Reports
      3. Transaction Reports
      4. Settings Activity Report
      5. Edit a report
    4. Data Exports 
      1. Create a new data export
      2. Edit a data export
      3. Refresh the data export content
      4. Download the data export
    5. Rename a report/export
    6. Duplicate a report/export
    7. Schedule a report/export
    8. Delete a report/export
    9. Check Transaction Usage

Advanced Agreement Capabilities and Workflows

  1. Webforms 
    1. Create a web form
    2. Edit a web form
    3. Disable/Enable a web form
    4. Hide/Unhide a web form
    5. Find the URL or script code 
    6. Prefill web form fields with URL parameters
    7. Save a web form to complete later
    8. Resize a web form
  2. Reusable Templates (Library templates) 
    1. US Government forms in the Acrobat Sign library
    2. Create a library template
    3. Change a library template's name
    4. Change a library template's type
    5. Change a library template's permission level
    6. Copy, edit, and save a shared template
    7. Download the aggregate field data for a library template
  3. Transfer ownership of web forms and library templates
  4. Power Automate Workflows 
    1. Overview of the Power Automate integration and included entitlements
    2. Enable the Power Automate integration
    3. In-Context Actions on the Manage page
    4. Track Power Automate usage
    5. Create a new flow (Examples)
    6. Triggers used for flows
    7. Importing flows from outside Acrobat Sign
    8. Manage flows
    9. Edit flows
    10. Share flows
    11. Disable or Enable flows
    12. Delete flows
    13. Useful Templates
      1. Administrator only
        1. Save all completed documents to SharePoint
        2. Save all completed documents to OneDrive for Business
        3. Save all completed documents to Google Drive
        4. Save all completed documents to DropBox
        5. Save all completed documents to Box
      2. Agreement archival
        1. Save your completed documents to SharePoint
        2. Save your completed documents to One Drive for Business
        3. Save your completed documents to Google Drive
        4. Save your completed documents to DropBox
        5. Save your completed documents to Box
      3. Webform agreement archival
        1. Save completed web form documents to SharePoint Library
        2. Save completed web form documents to OneDrive for Business
        3. Save completed   documents to Google Drive
        4. Save completed web form documents to Box
      4. Agreement data extraction
        1. Extract form field data from your signed document and update Excel sheet
      5. Agreement notifications
        1. Send custom email notifications with your agreement contents and signed agreement
        2. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in a Teams Channel
        3. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Slack
        4. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Webex
      6. Agreement generation
        1. Generate document from Power App form and Word template, send for signature
        2. Generate agreement from Word template in OneDrive, and get signature
        3. Generate agreement for selected Excel row, send for review and signature
  5. Custom Send workflows
    1. Custom Send Workflow Overview
    2. Creating a new Send Workflow
    3. Edit a Send Workflow
    4. Activate or Deactivate a Send Workflow
    5. Send an agreement with a Send Workflow
  6. Share users and agreements
    1. Share a user
    2. Share agreements

Integrate with other products

  1.  Acrobat Sign integrations overview 
  2. Acrobat Sign for Salesforce
  3. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft
    1. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft 365
    2. Acrobat Sign for Outlook
    3. Acrobat Sign for Word/PowerPoint
    4. Acrobat Sign for Teams
    5. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft PowerApps and Power Automate
    6. Acrobat Sign Connector for Microsoft Search
    7. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft Dynamics 
    8. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft SharePoint 
  4. Other Integrations
    1. Acrobat Sign for ServiceNow
    2. Acrobat Sign for HR ServiceNow
    3. Acrobat Sign for SAP SuccessFactors
    4. Acrobat Sign for Workday
    5. Acrobat Sign for NetSuite
    6. Acrobat Sign for VeevaVault
    7. Acrobat Sign for Coupa BSM Suite
  5. Partner managed integrations
  6. How to obtain an integration key

Acrobat Sign Developer

  1. REST APIs 
    1. Methods documentation
    2. SDK/Developer Guide
    3. API FAQ    
  2. Webhooks 
    1. Webhook overview
    2. Configure a new webhook
    3. View or edit a webhook
    4. Deactivate or reactivate a webhook
    5. Delete a webhook
    6. Two-way SSL certificates
    7. Webhooks in the API

Support and Troubleshooting

  1. Customer Support Resources 
  2. Enterprise Customer Success Resources 

Overview

When configuring your Acrobat Sign account, it’s important to remember that settings are inherited in a predictable way. All objects downstream from their parent object will inherit the parent object’s setting by default until explicitly changed.

The account is at the highest level in the customer-facing inheritance structure. All groups inherit their default setting values from the account level. When configuring the account settings, decide if you want to preference your account to either:

  • Define the most common values that your groups will employ, reducing the time and complexity of your group configurations.
  • Define the most secure settings your processes will demand, reducing the exposure of insecure values being applied if the group isn’t completely configured.

Groups inherit their default settings from the account values until they are edited and overridden at the group level. Users and agreements inherit their default values from the group they are related to, and for the most part, users and agreements don’t allow the granular configuration of these settings. For this reason, the group level is where the successful use of Acrobat Sign is defined. Groups define:

  • The default signing parameters for users assigned to the group (as the primary group).
  • The default values defined on the Send page when opened.
  • The templates and workflows that are available to the user.

Users in Multiple Groups

Accounts that have Users in Multiple Groups enabled have the option to allow users to shift between groups, permitting group-level settings to strongly define the default values for specific document requirements. If you have compliance requirements, consider how discrete groups can be defined to best ensure your agreements meet the compliance requirements with a minimum of configuration by your user base.

Users inherit their default setting values from their primary group. These settings are primarily:

  • Signing settings. For example:
    • The authority to sign documents.
    • Self-signing workflows.
    • Requirements to authenticate to Acrobat Sign before applying a signature
  • Access controls. For example:
    • Password strength.
    • Login authentication restrictions via IP range.
    • The authority to send agreements.
    • Access to create templates, web forms, and Send in Bulk agreements.
    • Account sharing.

Agreements also inherit their values from the group they are created in. These settings include:

  • Default agreement values. For example:
    • Reminders and Expiration dates.
    • Message templates.
    • Authentication methods
  • Signature requirements. For example:
    • Electronic vs Digital signatures.
    • Collecting reasons to sign or decline the agreement.
    • Types of signatures allowed (typed, drawn, image)
  • Email properties. For example:
    • Localization options.
    • Attaching the audit report.
    • Branding graphics.
  • Transaction security. For example:
    • Authenticated access to the audit report.
    • Document password strength
    • Document link expiration.


Accessing the configurable settings

Gaining access to the configurable controls depends on the service package you have purchased:

To access the configurable settings for both the Group and Account-level admins, log in to the Acrobat Sign web portal and navigate to the Account (or Group) tab in the top tab bar.

The enterprise login page.

Acrobat Standard and Pro both access the admin controls through the Acrobat Settings menu in the Acrobat interface.

  1. Log in as an administrator to acrobat.adobe.com

  2. Select the user icon in the upper-right corner of the screen to open the user menu.

  3. Select the Settings option.

    The Acrobat Pro page with the user menu expanded.

  4. Select the Edit Settings in the E-signing settings section of the user menu.

    The Acrobat Pro Settings menu with the link to manage e-sign settings highlighted

  5. Edit the settings as needed, and Save when done.


Configuring the Account-level settings

As mentioned previously, the account level settings are inherited by default for all groups, so have a strategy for how you want subsequently created groups to inherit those values.

Configuring the account-level settings requires the user to be an account-level administrator. When logged in as an account admin, you’ll see:

  • The Account tab is in the top navigation bar. Selecting the Account tab opens the administrator menu.
  • When the admin menu is open, the Account Settings menu tab is available (and opened).
  • Global Settings and Account Setup submenu items.
Account admin access to account level settings

The configurable settings typically exist within the Account Settings menu. The other tabs available usually pertain to managing specific objects (Users, Groups, Workflows, etc.)


Configuring Group-level settings

Group-level configuration can be completed by account admins, or users privileged as group admins. Group-level admins only have the authority to configure their groups and have no access to the account-level settings, nor other groups they may be members of, but to which they are not explicitly granted admin authority.

Accessing the group-level settings requires the admin to navigate to the specific group, open the Group Settings (if more than one group is available), and then enable the override option for the submenu page that is being configured.

When logged in as a group admin, you’ll see:

  • The Group tab is in the top navigation bar. Selecting the Group tab opens the administrator menu.
  • When the admin menu is open, the Group menu tab is available.
  • When the Group tab is open, the Group Settings and Group Setup submenu items.
    • Group Settings aligns with the Account Settings features at the account level.
    • Group Setup aligns with the Account Setup features at the account level.
      • The Account Setup submenu does not contain all of the same settings as the account level.
    • Users in Group aligns with the Users interface at the account level.

Group-level admins that only manage one group open the Group: <Group Name> menu tab automatically, exposing the submenus available for configuration.

To access the group-level settings:

  1. Select the Group tab in the top navigation bar.
  2. Select any submenu tab to display the secured page of settings.
  3. Enable the override to allow access to edit individual settings.
Group access to settings whn only one group is under their authority

Administrators that admin more than one group

Administrators that have more than one group under their authority have the additional step of selecting the group before exposing the group-level settings.

To configure the settings for a group when there are multiple groups allowed:

  1. Select the Account/Group tab in the top navigation bar. This opens the admin menu.
  2. Select the Groups menu from the left rail of options. This displays all groups available to the admin.
  3. Select the group to be edited. This exposes the available actions.
  4. Select the Group Settings option. This opens the submenu list of group settings.
  5. Select the submenu page to edit.
  6. Enable the override to allow access to edit individual settings.
Access group settings when the admin has multiple groups undere their authority

Settings that are available at the account level but not at the group level

Most settings are available for configuration at the group level. Below is the list of exceptions sorted by the order they appear in the UI following this format:

Submenu tab

  • Settings family
    • Individual setting

In the case that a submenu tab or setting family is listed without individual settings, the entire submenu tab or family is unavailable.

Global Settings

  • Library Documents
    • Allow Users to share library documents to account
  • Users in Multiple Groups
  • Group Administrator Permissions

Account Setup

  • Customize company URL
  • Add company name
  • Set company name for users in account

Electronic Seals

Report Settings

Security Settings

  • Single Sign-on Settings
  • Remember-me Settings
  • Login Password Policy
  • Web Session Duration
  • Allowed IP Addresses
  • PDF Encryption Type
  • API
  • User and group info access level
  • Account Sharing
  • Advanced Account Sharing permissions
  • Document Link Expiration

Send Settings

  • Post Sign confirmation URL redirect
    • Take recipients to Acrobat Sign default confirmation page after they have signed.

Notarization Settings

SAML Settings

SAML Errors

Overview

When configuring your Acrobat Sign account, it’s important to remember that settings are inherited in a predictable way. All objects downstream from their parent object will inherit the parent object’s setting by default until explicitly changed.

The Account is at the highest level in the customer-facing inheritance structure. All Groups inherit their default setting values from the account level. When configuring the account settings, decide if you want to preference your account to either:

  • Define the most common values that your Groups will employ, reducing the time and complexity of your Group configurations.
  • Define the most secure settings your processes will demand, reducing the exposure of insecure values being applied if the Group isn’t completely configured.

Groups inherit their default settings from the Account values until they are edited and overridden at the Group level. Users and Agreements inherit their default values from the Group they are related to, and for the most part, Users and Agreements don’t allow the granular configuration of these settings. For this reason, the Group level is where the successful use of Acrobat Sign is defined. Groups define:

  • The default signing parameters for users assigned to the group (as the primary group).
  • The default values that are defined on the Send page when opened.
  • The templates and workflows that are available to the User when creating new Agreements.

Users in Multiple Groups

Accounts that have Users in Multiple Groups enabled have the option to allow users to shift between groups, permitting group-level settings to strongly define the default values for specific document requirements. If you have compliance requirements, consider how discrete groups can be defined to best ensure your agreements meet the compliance requirements with a minimum of configuration by your user base.

Users inherit their default setting values from their primary group. These settings are primarily:

  • Signing settings. For example:
    • The authority to sign documents.
    • Self-signing workflows.
    • Requirements to authenticate to Acrobat Sign before applying a signature
  • Access controls. For example:
    • Password strength.
    • Login authentication restrictions via IP range.
    • The authority to send agreements.
    • Access to create templates, web forms, and Send in Bulk agreements.
    • Account sharing.

Agreements also inherit their values from the group they are created in. These settings include:

  • Default agreement values. For example:
    • Reminders and Expiration dates.
    • Message templates.
    • Authentication methods
  • Signature requirements. For example:
    • Electronic vs Digital signatures.
    • Collecting reasons to sign or decline the agreement.
    • Types of signatures allowed (typed, drawn, image)
  • Email properties. For example:
    • Localization options.
    • Attaching the audit report.
    • Branding graphics.
  • Transaction security. For example:
    • Authenticated access to the audit report.
    • Document password strength
    • Document link expiration.

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