Require password to run Action Wizard

Question

I've created an action wizard that adds a footer which includes miscellaneous text + + (see attached image). I would like the action wizard to require a password before running to ensure that the employee ID number placed on the document was authorized by that employee. If this is not possible do you see a work around to place this kind of text at the bottom right corner of the PDF? Essentially this marking authenticates who performed a particular action on the document. We are currently doing it by hand using handwriting to authenticate the person who completed the task which the “flag” represents. Essentially, I'm trying to automate an authentic digital version of this in lieu of handwriting. Hope this makes sense. Thank you!

try67 · Accepted Answer

It's not possible to password-protect an Action, although it is possible to do something like it with a script, but it's trivial to get around it (edit the JS code, or simply open it to see the correct password). I guess another option could be to examine the current user name and only proceed with the Action if it matches the name in it, but again, someone would still be able to just edit the Action.

The real solution is to ask the users to digitally sign the files after they have been processed.

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