Configure Digital Signature Settings
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Configure Digital Signature Settings
SigningHub gives you complete control on your digital signature configurations. You can customise physical appearance of your signature, signing methods (i.e. server-side signing, local signing, or mobile signing), and other important details that needs to be appended to your signatures. There are separate configurations available for web browsers and mobile apps. Customise these provisions as required and use a set choice configurations to produce your digital signatures.
The signature appearances are also managed from the SigningHub Admin interface, where customised appearances can also be defined as per your business/ organizational preferences.
It is important to understand:
- In Server-Side Signing, the signing keys (crypto keys required for digital signature creation) are held at server end. These keys can be used through any modern browser of Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Andriod or other devices/ tablets for signing at server end. For this, an SMS OTP authentication can also be enabled, by which the authentication password will be directly sent on your mobile device at the time of signing for confirmation.
- In Local (client-side) Signing, the signing keys (crypto keys required for digital signature creation) are held in local keystore or in smartcards or in USB-crypto tokens. For this, Go>Sign Desktop application is required on the system along with correct drivers of the installed devices.
- In Mobile Signing, the signing keys (crypto keys required for digital signature creation) are held on the user's mobile device. For this, a supported mobile signing app is required to use this feature.
Configure your Signature Appearance
- Click your profile drop down menu (available at the top right corner).
- Click the "My Settings" option.
- Click the "Signatures" option from the left menu. The first tab i.e. "Signature Appearance" will be opened by default.
- Configure your preferences in the related fields (see the "Signature Appearance" table below for fields description).
- Click the "Save" button.
- If you want to change the by default settings, click the "Documents" option, available at the top of the SigningHub screen or click the "Pending" count link from your SigningHub Dashboard and select the document with “Pending” or “draft” status.
Signature Appearance |
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Description |
The listed signature methods are those that are allowed in your enterprise role. From here you can configure the default signature method that could be shown to you on the signing screen, when you sign through Web Browsers.
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The listed signature methods are those that are allowed in your enterprise role. From here you can configure the default signature method that could be shown to you on the signing screen, when you sign through Mobile Apps.
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The listed signature methods are those that are allowed in your enterprise role. From here you can configure the default initials method that could be shown to you while filling in the initials.
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This field is used to configure the signature appearance design (i.e. Hand Signatures Only, Hand Signature with Details and Logo, or Hand Signature with Details) for your digital signature.
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Configure your Signing Method and Other Details
- Click your profile drop down menu (available at the top right corner).
- Click the "My Settings" option.
- Click the "Signatures" option from the left menu. The first tab i.e. "Signature Appearance" will be opened by default.
- Click the "Signing Details" tab.
If you want to change the default "Signing Method", go to "User Roles" for selection.
- Configure your preferences in the related fields (see the "Signature Settings" table below for fields description).
- Click the "Save" button.
Signature Settings |
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Signing method for web browsers |
Your default signing methods will be displayed here. (i.e. server-side signing or local signing). Although you can select the Signing Capacity.
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Signing method for mobile apps |
Choose a default signing capacity from the "Default Signing Capacity" field, when you need to sign through mobile apps. |
Additional signature information (Optional) |
Complete the "Signing Reason", "Location" and "Contact Information" fields accordingly. The specified information will become the permanent part of your PDF signature, and can optionally be shown in the signed PDF document, if the used signature appearance contains these variables (i.e. Signing reason, Location and Contact Information). |
Local Signing through Microsoft Edge browser
If you are looking to use the Microsoft Edge browser for local signing, then you need to perform an additional configuration on your machine to run Go>Sign Desktop, i.e.:
- Close the Microsoft Edge browser if already launched.
- Launch the command prompt by using "Run as administrator".
- Run this command: CheckNetIsolation.exe LoopbackExempt -a -n=Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe
- Launch the Microsoft Edge browser and run your application again to test Go>Sign Desktop.
Local Signing with RUT
SigningHub supports local signing through unique RUT values that are exclusively assigned to each user. The RUT can be added in the SigningHub database by using the respective API, see details. For the enterprises who wish to enforce their users to use the RUT values for signing need to amend their web.config files. This change can be done by the Enterprise Admin who has the rights to access the SigningHub installation directory. For this:
- Go to the SigningHub installation directory.
- Open the "Web.config" file.
- Change the value of "ValidateRUT" tag to "True".
- Save the changes and close the "Web.config" file.
RUT validation will be enabled for local signing.
Local Signing through Java Applet
Since the Java Applet is being deprecated from all the browsers, therefore applet support for local signing is closed by default. However you can still use the applet support by amending the web.config file. This change can be done by your Enterprise Admin who has the rights to access the SigningHub installation directory. For this:
- Go to the SigningHub installation directory.
- Open the "Web.config" file.
- Change the value of "SupportApplet" tag to "True".
- Save the changes and close the "Web.config" file.
Applet support will be enabled for local signing.
If you have an on-premises deployment of SigningHub, you can use the SigningHub Admin interface to define customized appearances based on your business/ organizational preferences.
See also
Set up your SigningHub profile
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Manage your groups
Manage your templates
Manage your library documents
Configure your notifications
Enable cloud drives
Manage your legal notices
Delegate your signing authority
Optimise your account storage
Delete your account