Is there anyway to record the time of a signature on a document?

[ScottSaporito]

I work in real estate and timely signatures are very important. Is there anyway to show the time a document was signed on the actual document?

[OldDirtyGamer · Accepted solution]

Hi Scott,

Yes, this is quite possible using the text-tagging feature in Echosign. A sample of this text-tagging code would be the following for a signature block along with the date and the time:

{{Sig1_es_:signer1:signature}}

{{Date_es_:signer1:date}}

{{Time_es_:signer1:calc(now()):format(Date,”hh:nn:ss tt”)}}

So, in the instance where it shows the {{Time}} block, the calculation would be broken down as follows:

{{Time_es_:signer1:calc(now()):format(Date,"hh:nn:ss tt")}}

"calc" tells the app to calculate, "now" returns the date and time when the signature is signed. Along with the Date, you also get the hours(hh), minutes (nn), and seconds (ss). The "tt" at the end designates the AM or PM status whereas if you wanted to use Military or 24-hour time, you'd drop the "tt" and simply use "HH" in place of the "hh".

I hope this answers the question for you and if there are any other questions in follow-up to this, feel free to ask!

Also, for additional information on text-tagging, feel free to check this link.

ODG.

[ScottSaporito]

Thanks for the response, I definitely learned something new today about these text tags. I read where you can use Pro versions of Arcobat to design a form and use these text tags. I only have Acrobat 8 Basic and I don't think I can create forms. Is there any way to use text tags from within Echosign? Or maybe another program?

Thanks.

[OldDirtyGamer]

In my experiences, text-tagging cannot be used directly in EchoSign but rather in a text document (notepad, word pad, Microsoft Office, etc) and then imported into EchoSign as a template document or widget.

[ScottSaporito]

Using Word, wordpad,etc is something I will play around with to learn about text tagging but unfortunately I don't see how I can use both the pdf forms that are required by the real estate commission and text tagging in Word to get to my end goal of having a field record the time of signature.

[OldDirtyGamer]

Hmm.. That could be a challenge. Is it possible to convert the real estate commission documents to either a plain text or Word document, add the text-tagging to add your fields, and the convert them back using EchoSign? I've done that with a couple of different documents but I'm not sure if that's something you can do in your line of work or not without raising the ire of the commission by doing so. If you can, that might be the answer.