dharmraj | Posts: 6

Id/Data in json format restricts changes in approval

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 10:22pm
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Hello , I am creating few approval fields , where I am passing data in following format : 

         {
                    "page":0,
                    "subtype":"TEXTFIELD",
                    "width":161,
                    "binding":None,
                    "extract":False,
                    "extractAnchor":None,
                    "left":607,
                    "top":289,
                    "validation":None,
                    "height":20,
                    "data":None,
                    "type":"INPUT",
                    "name": "own1_percentage",
                    "value":lead.own1_percentage or '',
        }
It works absolutely well. But whenever I add an ID to field, or something into data, values is appeared on the PDF and signer is able to edit the value as well, but after signing the document , new value(edited by the signer) is not preserved and it changes back to the value passed through json. Am I missing something ? Also , please explain the use of "data" here. How can I pass values to the data ? Many thanks!
mwilliams | Posts: 957

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 06:59am
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What URL are you posting to? Can you give all the details of your request? Thanks.
dharmraj | Posts: 6

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 07:12pm
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Hie Michael, I am posting to the url https://sandbox.esignlive.com/api/packages/. And I am passing json payload to the files argument while posting. It works well and data appears over PDF. What I want is I want to pass some data along with fields and get it back after the package is completed. Basically, I want to compare whether the value passed with fields have been modified by the signer or not. If can pass values to the data (or any other field attribute than values), I will be able to compare between passed data and return values. Thanks!
dharmraj | Posts: 6

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Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 01:40am
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Sorry to spam, link to edit my previous post is gone. I only want to know about This data attribute of a custom field. According to my understanding it says that we can pass arbitrary data set(data with our choice) while creating a field and this data will travel with the field throughout the cycle. If I am right, how in above JSON(first post of this thread ) we can assign 'data' attribute with some value? So that we can receive those values with a get request (/packages/{packageId}/documents/{documentId}/approvals/{approvalId}). Thanks.
mwilliams | Posts: 957

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Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 08:27am
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Gotcha. I think I've got it, now. I'll take a look here shortly and post back what I find on the data attribute. :)
mwilliams | Posts: 957

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Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 03:39pm
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It doesn't appear that passing data through the data attribute does anything on the field. It seems to be cleared out each time. It's likely an unused attribute that needs to be removed. However, you can pass value through the data attribute on the package itself. So, if you wanted to pass default values of fields into the package's data attribute, you could do that and have access to the values, later. I'll check with product management to see what this data attribute is for, within the field object.

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