Create or edit a web form to gain access to the fields
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- Admin Console Overview
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User Management
- Adding users
- Create function-focused users
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Account/Group Settings
- Settings Overview
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Global Settings
- New Recipient Experience
- Self Signing Workflows
- Send in Bulk
- Web Forms
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- Collect form data with agreements
- Limited Document Visibility
- Attach a PDF copy of the signed agreement
- Include a link in the email
- Include an image in the email
- Files attached to email will be named as
- Attach audit reports to documents
- Merge multiple documents into one
- Download individual documents
- Upload a signed document
- Set a default time zone
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- Group Administrator Permissions
- Replace recipient
- Audit Report
- Transaction Footer
- Healthcare customer
- Account Setup
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Signature Preferences
- Well formatted signatures
- Custom Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure
- Navigate recipients through form fields
- Restart agreement workflow
- Decline to sign
- Allow signers to print and place a written signature
- Require signers to use a mobile device to create their signature
- Request IP address from signers
- Digital Signatures
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- Digital Identity
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Report Settings
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Send settings
- Require recipient name when sending
- Lock name values for known users
- Allowed recipient roles
- Allow e-Witnesses
- Recipient groups
- CCs
- Recipient Agreement Access
- Field flattening
- Modify Agreements
- Private messages
- Allowed signature types
- Reminders
- Signed document password protection
- Send Agreement Notification through
- Signer identification options
- Content Protection
- Signing order
- Liquid mode
- Bio-Pharma Settings
- Notarization Settings
- Payments Integration
- SAML Settings
- Data Governance
- Time Stamp Settings
- External Archive
- Account Languages
- Email Settings
- Migrating from echosign.com to adobesign.com
- Configure Options for Recipients
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Guidance for regulatory requirements
- Accessibility
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- 21 CFR part 11 and EudraLex Annex 11
- Healthcare customers
- IVES support
- "Vaulting" agreements
- EU/UK considerations
- Claim your domain
- Report Abuse links
Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements
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Recipient Options
- Cancel an email reminder
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Options on the e-signing page
- Overview of the e-sign page
- Open to read the agreement without fields
- Decline to sign an agreement
- Delegate signing authority
- Download a PDF of the agreement
- View the agreement history
- View the agreement messages
- Convert from an electronic to a written signature
- Convert from a written to an electronic signature
- Navigate the form fields
- Clear the data from the form fields
- E-sign page magnification and navigation
- Change the language used in the agreement tools and information
- Review the Legal Notices
- Adjust Acrobat Sign Cookie Preferences
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Send Agreements
- Send (Compose) page
- Send an agreement only to yourself
- Send an agreement to others
- Written Signatures
- Recipient signing order
- Send in Bulk
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Authoring fields into documents
- In-app authoring environment
- Create forms with text tags
- Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
- Fields
- Authoring FAQ
- Sign Agreements
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Manage Agreements
- Manage page overview
- Delegate agreements
- Replace Recipients
- Limit Document Visibility
- Cancel an Agreement
- Create new reminders
- Review reminders
- Cancel a reminder
- Access Power Automate flows
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More Actions...
- How search works
- View an agreement
- Create a template from an agreement
- Hide/Unhide agreements from view
- Upload a signed agreement
- Modify a sent agreement's files and fields
- Edit a recipient's authentication method
- Add or modify an expiration date
- Add a Note to the agreement
- Share an individual agreement
- Unshare an agreement
- Download an individual agreement
- Download the individual files of an agreement
- Download the Audit Report of an agreement
- Download the field content of an agreement
- Audit Report
- Reporting and Data exports
Advanced Agreement Capabilities and Workflows
- Reusable Templates
- Transfer ownership of web forms and library templates
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Power Automate Workflows
- Overview of the Power Automate integration and included entitlements
- Enable the Power Automate integration
- In-Context Actions on the Manage page
- Track Power Automate usage
- Create a new flow (Examples)
- Triggers used for flows
- Importing flows from outside Acrobat Sign
- Manage flows
- Edit flows
- Share flows
- Disable or Enable flows
- Delete flows
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Useful Templates
- Administrator only
- Agreement archival
- Webform agreement archival
- Agreement data extraction
- Agreement notifications
- Agreement generation
- Custom Send workflows
- Share users and agreements
Integrate with other products
- Acrobat Sign for Salesforce
- Acrobat Sign for Microsoft
- Other Integrations
- Partner managed integrations
- How to obtain an integration key
Acrobat Sign Developer
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
Support and Troubleshooting
Use URL parameters to fill web form fields
To insert values into a web form field, there are two things you need to know:
- How to mark a field as available for URL parameters
- How to construct the URL parameters to be inserted
How to mark a field as available for URL parameters
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Add the text field you want to populate through the URL
- Only Text fields can accept values
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Open the properties of the field by double clicking it
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Edit the field name to something meaningful. The field name is the first part of the parameter you will use, so shorter is usually better
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Check the box that says Default value may come from URL
- Optionally check the Read Only box if you don't want the value to be editable
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Click OK to save the parameters
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Repeat for all fields that will need to accept a parameter from the URL
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Click Save to save the web form
In this example we are creating two fields to be filled by the URL:
- Branch_Office - A field that accepts the branch office string (shown above)
- Emp_ID - A field that accepts the employee ID
How to construct the URL parameters to be inserted
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Copy the URL from the web form. The easiest way to do this is to:
- Edit the web form from the Manage page
- Click the Copy Web Form URL link
Web form URLs are very long, so an abbreviated one is used here for an example (yours will look different):
Example URL:
https://secure.na1.adobesign.com/public/esignWidget?wid=CBF2s*
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Paste the web form URL into a text editor (like Notepad)
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Add your parameters
- The start of the parameters are identified by adding a hash (pound, #) symbol at the end of the web form URL.
- Then add the parameters in the format of {field_name}={value}
Example URL with one parameter
https://secure.na1.adobesign.com/public/esignWidget?wid=CBF2s*#Branch_Office=San Jose #621
- Multiple values are added by inserting an ampersand (&) between field values.
Example URL with two parameters
https://secure.na1.adobesign.com/public/esignWidget?wid=CBF2s*#Branch_Office=San Jose #621&Emp_ID=429939
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Once all of the field=value pairs are added to the URL, copy the full string and paste it into your browser.
The web form will render with the fields populated:
Properties and Limitations
- You only use the hash mark once to define the beginning of the paramater(s)
- Using a subsequent hash mark in a value does not negatively impact the result
- Using spaces in values is acceptable
- Using spaces in the field name is only acceptable if you explicitly insert %20 as the space character in the URL
- This will work: https://secure.na1.adobesign.com/public/esignWidget?wid=CBF2s*#Branch%20Office=San Jose #621
- This will not work: https://secure.na1.adobesign.com/public/esignWidget?wid=CBF2s*#Branch Office=San Jose #621
- It is generally recommend that an underscore be used in field names instead of spaces. It will ultimately save you time
- There is no space allowed between the Field Name, the equals mark, and the beginning of the value (Fieldname=Value)
- No space to either side of the ampersand if you have multiple values
- There is no limit (other than perhaps URL length limits) to the number of fields that can get their value from URL parameters
- Calculated text fields can not be overridden and do not have the checkbox displayed in their field properties.
- URL parameters do not work with authenticated web forms. Due to the use of URL Hash Fragments, if a web form is protected via a password or other authentication, the URL parameters are not passed back to the client after authentication is complete (the server never sees that part of the URL).
Error handling
- Any URL parameter that does not match a form field name exactly is ignored
- Any URL parameter that tries to assign a value to a non-text field or a text field that does not have Default value may come from URL enabled is ignored