Migrating to electronic signatures
This guide covers migrating to the Electronic Signatures component from the older signatures functionality that’s included with the Annotations component with licenses obtained in May 2021 or earlier. The older signatures user interface allows users to sign documents by drawing. Electronic Signatures includes a much-improved user interface that allows users to sign documents by drawing, selecting an image, or typing.
Electronic Signatures is a new component, so ensure your license includes Electronic Signatures. Please contact our Sales team if they haven’t already reached out to you.
If you don’t make API customizations and instead use Nutrient’s default signing experience, then there’s no migration needed, and Nutrient will automatically use the newer Electronic Signatures UI.
Signatures stored with the older functionality are fully compatible with Electronic Signatures.
Previously, a series of APIs were specific to handling ink signatures. With the introduction of Electronic Signatures, however, we expanded them so that they also support handling image signatures.
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The
GetInkSignaturesAsync
andSetInkSignaturesAsync
methods in theController
have been deprecated and renamed toGetStoredSignaturesAsync
andSetStoredSignaturesAsync
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The
InkSignatureToolbarItem
class has been deprecated and replaced bySignatureToolbarItem
.
Now, by default, signatures entered by the user won’t be saved locally. An IElectronicSignatureStorage
must be set in the Controller
for saving to be enabled, which will provide a checkbox for the user. You can find more information in our Electronic Signatures storage guide.