Add signature fields using API

Add fields for signing using the airSlate SignNow API and collect legal signatures from your signers. Add fields individually for each recipient and customize their size in your document.

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Get a typed, printed, drawn or handwritten signature from a recipient by adding signature fields

Allow your recipient to choose the most optimal manner of signing and provide you with their legal signature.

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public abstract class FieldRequestBase
    {
        public abstract string type { get; }
        public bool required { get; set; }
        public string template_field_id { get; set; }
        public string role { get; set; }
        [JsonProperty(NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore)]
        public string name { get; set; }
        public int page_number { get; set; }
        public int x { get; set; }
        public int y { get; set; }
        public int width { get; set; }
        public int height { get; set; }
    }
    public class DocumentUpdateRequestModel
    {
        public List<FieldRequestBase> fields { get; private set; } = new List<FieldRequestBase>();
    }
    public class SignatureFieldRequest : FieldRequestBase
    {
        public override string type { get { return "signature"; } }
    }
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var accessToken = "Your ACCEES TOKEN";
            var apiBaseUrl = "airSlate SignNow API URL e.g.: https://api-eval.signnow.com";
            var documentId = "Your document ID";

if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK)
            {
                throw new Exception(response.Content);
            }
        }
    }

import signnow_python_sdk
from datetime import datetime

if __name__ == '__main__':
    signnow_python_sdk.Config(client_id="CLIENT_ID",
                              client_secret="CLIENT_SECRET",
                              environment="production")

# Enter your own credentials
    username = "USER_NAME"
    password = "USER_PASSWORD"
    template_id = "TEMPLATE_ID"

# Create access_token for the user
    access_token = signnow_python_sdk.OAuth2.request_token(username, password, '*')

# Create the PUT /document payload
    doc_payload = {
        "texts": [
            {
                "size": 22,
                "x": 61,
                "y": 72,
                "page_number": 0,
                "font": "Arial",
                "data": "a sample text element",
                "line_height": 9.075,
                "client_timestamp": datetime.now().strftime("%s")
            }
        ],
        "fields": [
            {
                "x": 61,
                "y": 100,
                "width": 120,
                "height": 34,
                "page_number": 0,
                "role": "Signer 1",
                "required": True,
                "type": "signature"
            },
            {
                "x": 61,
                "y": 160,
                "width": 120,
                "height": 12,
                "page_number": 0,
                "label": "New Label",
                "role": "Signer 1",
                "required": True,
                "type": "text"
            },
            {
                "x": 61,
                "y": 178,
                "width": 41,
                "height": 26,
                "page_number": 0,
                "role": "Signer 2",
                "required": True,
                "type": "initials"
            }
        ]
    }

# Update document template with payload
    put_doc_response = signnow_python_sdk.Template.update(access_token['access_token'], template_id, doc_payload)

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Greg

Great. Works really well when I need it. Definitely recommend.

Works great on my phone for any documents that need signed quickly. Also, it looks very realistic to pen.

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Kelli

With this product we can send out any forms that we need our employees to complete without having them come into the office to complete. This saves everyone time and money with just a click of a button. Our employees love it even the ones who are not so tech friendly.

I love that I am able to send and review all documents that go out to our employees. We are bale to set up multiple documents and either send them out separately or in a group email.

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We finally got our in house legal team to allow us to use airSlate SignNow as an official form of signature instead of printing out paper, signing, and rescanning due to the legal protections it provided. highly recommend for anyone person or business that needs to sign papers and is currently printing and signing them now.

I loved that i didn't have to print out and sign legal documents, contracts, and invoices. additionally, the signing feature in adobe acrobat isn't as intuitive as airSlate SignNow.

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