DocuSign
Need to e-sign a document? Add DocuSign into Prelim.
To learn more about DocuSign, you can consult their documentation: https://developers.docusign.com/docs/
Installing
Special permission required
To install, manage or uninstall you will need to be in a role that has the ability to install apps.
Using in a form
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Navigate to the form that you want to add DocuSign to and click on the pages tab
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Click on 'Add Input' > 'Docusign'. A new DocuSign button will appear in the form builder.
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For this to work, you must first add PDFs to your form:
- If you already added your PDFs, skip to the next step.
- Otherwise click on the PDFs tab near the top of the screen to be redirected to the PDFs page.
- Click on the button at the top-right corner 'Add PDF'.
- Choose a PDF file that you want to upload from your computer and give it a name.
- If your DocuSign configuration needs multiple PDFs, repeat this process.
- Click on the 'Edit Input' button and the DocuSign editor window will pop up.

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You will first be shown the 'PDFs' tab of the DocuSign editor window
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In the left-hand column, you should see a select dropdown with a list of PDFs that you can add. To add one, simply select it and click 'Add'.
- If you do not see the PDF you want to add, go back to Section I and add the PDF first.
- Upon first adding a PDF, it will always be included with the DocuSign input.
- If you only want that particular PDF to be shown upon a certain input being filled out, choose a specific input from the additional dropdown.
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If you change your mind about a particular PDF, simply delete it by clicking the delete icon next the card.
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Once you have added all your PDFs, click on the 'Signers' tab to continue.

A signer is a user that interacts with the DocuSign interface, whether it be filling out information or giving a signature. Upon interacting with the DocuSign input, they are sent an email that links them to DocuSign.
An in-session signer is a signer that is redirected to DocuSign to complete the form, and is redirected back to Prelim afterwards. You can only have ONE in-session signer per DocuSign configuration.
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In the left-hand column, click on the 'Add' button to add a signer.
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A signer configuration card will appear on the right-hand side. Give the signer a label, which will only be for internal use.
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Select the inputs that signer's information will be based off of. The values of these inputs will be used to populate the name/email of the signer.
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Similar to PDFs, you can also choose for the signer to be included only when a particular input is filled out by selecting an input from the "Should Include" dropdown.
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You can delete unwanted signers by clicking on the delete icon.
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Repeat until you have added sufficient signers. Proceed to the final section by clicking on the 'Signer Tabs' tab.

A signer tab is an input that will appear when the user opens up the actual DocuSign interface.
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In the left-hand column, you will see three tab icons and a list of PDFs that you have added.
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Click on the PDF that you want to add tabs to. A preview of the PDF will display on the right.
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Click on the tab icon that you want to add to your PDF.
- If you see any error messages during this process, go back to the PDFs or Signers tabs to fix those issues by adding PDFs/signers.
Type | Description |
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Text | Adds a tab for text input, for general purpose information entry |
Sign | Adds a signature input requesting the user's signature |
Approve | Adds a button for the user to click on to approve/agree with a statement |
- Click directly on the document where you want to place that tab. A tab input will appear on the document
- If you do not like where a tab input is located, you can drag and drop it to move it around.
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To change the signer associated with the tab input, click the dropdown in the tab input and choose from the list of signers.
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Add as many tabs as you need until the the PDF is properly set up!
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To delete a tab, simply click on it to select it and then click the 'X' button.
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Repeat for the other PDFs.
- In order for the DocuSign input to be fully configured, you must add at least one tab to each PDF.

And you're done! Your DocuSign input is fully configured.
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Updated 6 months ago