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Sruthi15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
August 30, 2021
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E-signature in Thingworx applications

  • August 30, 2021
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Hi,

How to bring the e-signature feature in Thingworx foundation applications?

 

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PaiChung22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
August 30, 2021

Not sure what your actual requirements are, but usually we will capture 'Current User' or 'Sign Off user' and date/time and associate that with the appropriate meta data.

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Sruthi15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
August 31, 2021

we are generating reports in our customer application. Customer wants to verify there is no irregular data values in the report and sign it (e-signature). Is it possible with LDAP configurations in Thingworx?

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VladimirRosu_11662719-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
August 31, 2021

Hi Sruthi,

Pai commented right in the previous post, in the sense the requirements are not very clear for us (eg: are you required to sign with a TLS certificate? are you required to store the signed reports as a file ? etc.)

In your case, the fact that the customer wants to verify there are no irregular data values is not related technically to the signing process (they are totally separate).

Which leaves us with the signing.

Typically the signing process can mean adding some sort of metadata (again, like Pay suggested) to your report, like the Signing User and date time.

I would do this typically by using a service which tries to authenticate again to ThingWorx by using the password the user inserts (User is the CurrentUser so you don't need to ask for it again). The main content of the service would be a GetText (I believe). ThingWorx would receive that auth attempt (from within its own service, to be clear), and based on the password would either reject or accept the request, and if it accepts it, you can decide as a developer to say that the document is signed, and populate those fields.

Alternatives exist, like popping up a dialog that just asks the current user to sign the document (yes/no)...

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