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Participant
April 24, 2023
Question

Text Tags - add prefill from URL attribute

  • April 24, 2023
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Hi,

 

Support has recommedned I enquire here as they could not assist.

 

When creating a form field using Text Tags, I want to set it both to read only and additionaly "Default value may come from URL" so it can be prefilled from URL paramater.

 

However checking the documentation this doesnt appear to be supported by any of the Text Tags field options.

 

Currenty after uploading as a Widget/Web Form via the API, I have to manually edit those fields to update the properties.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/sign/using/text-tag.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/sign/adv-user/web-form/url-parameters.html

 

Any thoughts on if this is supported somehow?

Or is there a way using the API to prefill these fields before sending the Web Form link to the signer?

 

Thanks

Chris

 

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Participant
May 2, 2023

Hi Meenakshi

 

Thanks for the reply. We are using the included entitlment of Acrobat Pro for Teams.

 

We are using the Sign API to create a Widget(Web Form) from a word document template and using the text tags tools to create the pdf field inputs.

 

1. Upload transient document - POST /api/rest/v6/transientDocuments

2. Create Widget - POST  /api/rest/v6/widgets

3. Get Widget url - GET /api/rest/v6/widgets

 

By way of example, in our template we have text {{field1_es_:readonly}}

 

This creates a text input field named "field1" which has the read only attribute set.

 

We would like to be able to prefill the value of this input either via:

 

- the URL paramaters method, which requires the "Default value may come from URL" attribute to also be enabled. Is there a way to do this with Text Tags?; OR

- Can we prefil form values via the API, as part of creating the Web Form from the uploaded document, so fields are prefilled before sending to user to complete and sign.

 

Appreicate any advice here.

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

Meenakshi_Negi
Legend
April 30, 2023

Hi Chris24575395whuw,

 

Thank you for reaching out.

 

Could you please confirm the Adobe Acrobat Sign plan you are using?

Would you mind sharing the complete worklfow you would like to acheive here?

Are you using the Acrobat Sign API ? Please share more information.

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi