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- Admin Console Overview
- User Management
- Adding users
- Create function-focused users
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- Change Name/Email Address
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- Collect form data with agreements
- Limited Document Visibility
- Attach a PDF copy of the signed agreement
- Include a link in the email
- Include an image in the email
- Files attached to email will be named as
- Attach audit reports to documents
- Merge multiple documents into one
- Download individual documents
- Upload a signed document
- Delegation for users in my account
- Allow external recipients to delegate
- Authority to sign
- Authority to send
- Power to add Electronic Seals
- Set a default time zone
- Set a default date format
- Users in Multiple Groups (UMG)
- Group Administrator Permissions
- Replace recipient
- Audit Report
- Transaction Footer
- In Product Messaging and Guidance
- Accessible PDFs
- New authoring experience
- Healthcare customer
- Account Setup
- Add logo
- Customize company Hostname/URL
- Add company name
- Post agreement URL redirect
- Signature Preferences
- Well formatted signatures
- Allow recipients to sign by
- Signers can change their name
- Allow recipients to use their saved signature
- Custom Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure
- Navigate recipients through form fields
- Restart agreement workflow
- Decline to sign
- Allow Stamps workflows
- Require signers to provide their Title or Company
- Allow signers to print and place a written signature
- Show messages when e-signing
- Require signers to use a mobile device to create their signature
- Request IP address from signers
- Exclude company name and title from participation stamps
- Digital Signatures
- Electronic Seals
- Digital Identity
- Report Settings
- New report experience
- Classic report settings
- Security Settings
- Single Sign-on settings
- Remember-me settings
- Login password policy
- Login password strength
- Web session duration
- PDF encryption type
- API
- User and group info access
- Allowed IP Ranges
- Account Sharing
- Account sharing permissions
- Agreement sharing controls
- Signer identity verification
- Agreement signing password
- Document password strength
- Block signers by Geolocation
- Phone Authentication
- Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA)
- Allow page extraction
- Document link expiration
- Upload a client certificate for webhooks/callbacks
- Timestamp
- Send settings
- Show Send page after login
- Require recipient name when sending
- Lock name values for known users
- Allowed recipient roles
- Allow e-Witnesses
- Recipient groups
- CCs
- Recipient Agreement Access
- Required fields
- Attaching documents
- Field flattening
- Modify Agreements
- Agreement name
- Languages
- Private messages
- Allowed signature types
- Reminders
- Signed document password protection
- Send Agreement Notification through
- Signer identification options
- Content Protection
- Enable Notarize transactions
- Document Expiration
- Preview, position signatures, and add fields
- Signing order
- Liquid mode
- Custom workflow controls
- Upload options for the e-sign page
- Post-sign confirmation URL redirect
- Message Templates
- Bio-Pharma Settings
- Workflow Integration
- Notarization Settings
- Payments Integration
- Signer Messaging
- SAML Settings
- SAML Configuration
- Install Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service
- Install Okta
- Install OneLogin
- Install Oracle Identity Federation
- SAML Configuration
- Data Governance
- Time Stamp Settings
- External Archive
- Account Languages
- Email Settings
- Migrating from echosign.com to adobesign.com
- Configure Options for Recipients
- Guidance for regulatory requirements
- Accessibility
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- 21 CFR part 11 and EudraLex Annex 11
- Healthcare customers
- IVES support
- "Vaulting" agreements
- EU/UK considerations
- Download Agreements in Bulk
- Claim your domain
- Report Abuse links
Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements
- Recipient Options
- Cancel an email reminder
- Options on the e-signing page
- Overview of the e-sign page
- Open to read the agreement without fields
- Decline to sign an agreement
- Delegate signing authority
- Restart the agreement
- Download a PDF of the agreement
- View the agreement history
- View the agreement messages
- Convert from an electronic to a written signature
- Convert from a written to an electronic signature
- Navigate the form fields
- Clear the data from the form fields
- E-sign page magnification and navigation
- Change the language used in the agreement tools and information
- Review the Legal Notices
- Adjust Acrobat Sign Cookie Preferences
- Send Agreements
- Authoring fields into documents
- In-app authoring environment
- Create forms with text tags
- Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
- Fields
- Authoring FAQ
- Sign Agreements
- Manage Agreements
- Manage page overview
- Delegate agreements
- Replace Recipients
- Limit Document Visibility
- Cancel an Agreement
- Create new reminders
- Review reminders
- Cancel a reminder
- Access Power Automate flows
- More Actions...
- How search works
- View an agreement
- Create a template from an agreement
- Hide/Unhide agreements from view
- Upload a signed agreement
- Modify a sent agreement's files and fields
- Edit a recipient's authentication method
- Add or modify an expiration date
- Add a Note to the agreement
- Share an individual agreement
- Unshare an agreement
- Download an individual agreement
- Download the individual files of an agreement
- Download the Audit Report of an agreement
- Download the field content of an agreement
- Audit Report
- Reporting and Data exports
- Overview
- Grant users access to reporting
- Report charts
- Data Exports
- Rename a report/export
- Duplicate a report/export
- Schedule a report/export
- Delete a report/export
- Check Transaction Usage
Advanced Agreement Capabilities and Workflows
- Webforms
- Reusable Templates (Library templates)
- Transfer ownership of web forms and library templates
- Power Automate Workflows
- Overview of the Power Automate integration and included entitlements
- Enable the Power Automate integration
- In-Context Actions on the Manage page
- Track Power Automate usage
- Create a new flow (Examples)
- Triggers used for flows
- Importing flows from outside Acrobat Sign
- Manage flows
- Edit flows
- Share flows
- Disable or Enable flows
- Delete flows
- Useful Templates
- Administrator only
- Agreement archival
- Webform agreement archival
- Save completed web form documents to SharePoint Library
- Save completed web form documents to OneDrive for Business
- Save completed documents to Google Drive
- Save completed web form documents to Box
- Agreement data extraction
- Agreement notifications
- Send custom email notifications with your agreement contents and signed agreement
- Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in a Teams Channel
- Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Slack
- Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Webex
- Agreement generation
- Generate document from Power App form and Word template, send for signature
- Generate agreement from Word template in OneDrive, and get signature
- Generate agreement for selected Excel row, send for review and signature
- Custom Send workflows
- Share users and agreements
Integrate with other products
- Acrobat Sign integrations overview
- Acrobat Sign for Salesforce
- Acrobat Sign for Microsoft
- Other Integrations
- Partner managed integrations
- How to obtain an integration key
Acrobat Sign Developer
- REST APIs
- Webhooks
Support and Troubleshooting
Overview
To safeguard the privacy of recipients and facilitate the security of document content, the lifespan of publicly accessible URLs (provided to recipients via email) must have a finite life span.
However, work processes can have very different tolerances for how long that lifespan should be.
For this reason, Adobe Acrobat Sign administrators can configure, at the account level, how many days a public URL should remain viable after it is generated.
Recipients that trigger an expired URL will be prompted with an option to have a new URL sent to the email address of the current recipient. Redirection to a new email is not allowed through this action.
New link requests are throttled at ten requests (per recipient) in a 60-minute rolling window.
An attempt to request additional new links after ten have been requested within the 60-minute window disables the Send new link button and prompts an error. The recipient then must wait for 60-minutes after their first request to try again.
The throttle is applied per recipient. In a parallel signature flow, each recipient has the authority to request up to ten new links within their respective 60-minute windows.
Configuration Options
The default expiration timespan is seven days.
Enterprise and business tier accounts have the option to adjust the expiration time to any value between one and 90 days.
The controls to adjust the lifespan can be found on the Security Settings tab at the account level. (Link expirations cannot be edited at the group level.)
This setting only applies to the URL delivered in the Acrobat Sign email notification.
The agreement itself is not impacted in any way.
Audit Report and Activity log entries
Each time a recipient requests a new document after a link has expired, a record of that request is entered into the audit report and Activity log:
Things to know:
This setting controls how many days the recipient has access to the link to the agreement after the delivery of the email.
The agreement expiration time refers to the lifetime of the agreement.
In the above example, the agreement is viable for 11 days, and any email link sent to the user is viable for three days after delivery.
Suppose the recipient attempts to access the email URL on the fourth day. In that case, the link will trigger an error message indicating the link is expired and offer to deliver a new link to the original email address. The second (and any subsequent) email link has the same lifespan of three days.
If the recipient waits 12 days, the agreement expires. Requesting a new link delivers a message that the agreement has expired and can no longer be signed.
Web URLs generated via API calls set an expiration time span for all agreements and default to 14 days today. The Signing URL/Expiry parameter can be used to alter the default lifespan if needed.
When a new link is requested by the recipient, an agreement event is triggered: URL_REAUTHENTICATION_REQUESTED
Yes.
A new signing URL for a specific recipient can only be requested ten times per hour. If a recipient requests more than ten new singing URLs in one hour, the Send new link button is disabled and an error is triggered.
No.
Requesting a new URL to view an existing agreement does not consume a transaction.
No.
This feature only applies to the viability of the link to reach the document and has no bearing on the previously input information.
No.
The recipient has already accepted the ToU, and that acceptance is recorded on the transaction. No further acceptance is warranted.
URL Endpoints that will enforce the expiry check:
- /public/esign
- /public/resend/ (delegation links)
- /public/viewAgreement/
- /public/view/agreements/
No.
There are no webhook triggers tied to expiring a public-facing URL.
No.
The Report Abuse links are always active and will not expire.
Yes.
All public-facing links that target an agreement in email are affected equally.
The Report Abuse links are not impacted, and will always be available.