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What's New

  1. Pre-Release Notes
  2. Release Notes
  3. Important Notifications

Get Started

  1. Quick start guide for administrators
  2. Quick start guide for users
  3. For Developers
  4. Video tutorial library
  5. FAQ

Administer

  1. Admin Console Overview
  2. User Management
    1. Add, edit, and review active users
      1. Review your active users from the Users tab
      2. Add a User
      3. Add Users in Bulk
      4. Add Users from your Directory
      5. Add Users from MS Azure Active Directory
      6. Migrate users between Admin Console organizations
    2. Create function-focused users
      1. Technical accounts - API driven
      2. Service accounts - Manually driven
    3. Review users who haven't completed verification
    4. Check for users with provisioning errors
    5. Change Name/Email Address
    6. Edit a user's group membership
    7. Edit a user's group membership through the group interface
    8. Promote a user to an admin role
    9. User Identity Types and SSO
    10. Switch User Identity
    11. Authenticate Users with MS Azure
    12. Authenticate Users with Google Federation
    13. Product Profiles
    14. Login Experience 
  3. Account/Group Settings
    1. Settings Overview
    2. Global Settings
      1. Account tier and ID
      2. New Recipient Experience
      3. Self Signing Workflows
      4. Send in Bulk
      5. Web Forms
      6. Custom Send Workflows
      7. Power Automate Workflows
      8. Library Documents
      9. Collect form data with agreements
      10. Limited Document Visibility
      11. Attach a PDF copy of the signed agreement 
      12. Include a link in the email
      13. Include an image in the email
      14. Files attached to email will be named as
      15. Attach audit reports to documents
      16. Merge multiple documents into one
      17. Download individual documents
      18. Upload a signed document
      19. Delegation for users in my account
      20. Allow external recipients to delegate
      21. Authority to sign
      22. Authority to send
      23. Power to add Electronic Seals
      24. Set a default time zone
      25. Set a default date format
      26. Users in Multiple Groups (UMG)
        1. Upgrade to use UMG
      27. Group Administrator Permissions
      28. Replace recipient
      29. Audit Report
        1. Overview
        2. Allow unauthenticated access on the transaction verification page
        3. Include reminders
        4. Include view events
        5. Include agreement page/attachment count
      30. Transaction Footer
      31. In Product Messaging and Guidance
      32. Accessible PDFs
      33. New authoring experience
      34. Healthcare customer
    3. Account Setup / Branding Settings
      1. Overview
      2. Add logo
      3. Customize company Hostname/URL    
      4. Add company name
      5. Post agreement URL redirect
    4. Signature Preferences
      1. Well formatted signatures
      2. Allow recipients to sign by
      3. Signers can change their name
      4. Allow recipients to use their saved signature
      5. Custom Terms of Use and Consumer Disclosure
      6. Navigate recipients through form fields
      7. Restart agreement workflow
      8. Decline to sign
      9. Allow Stamps workflows
      10. Require signers to provide their Title or Company
      11. Allow signers to print and place a written signature
      12. Show messages when e-signing
      13. Require signers to use a mobile device to create their signature
      14. Request IP address from signers
      15. Exclude company name and title from participation stamps
      16. Apply Adaptive Signature Draw scaling
    5. Digital Signatures
      1. Overview
      2. Download and sign with Acrobat 
      3. Sign with Cloud Signatures
      4. Require digital signatures per recipient
      5. Include metadata for Identity Providers
      6. Restricted Cloud Signatures Providers
    6. Electronic Seals
    7. Digital Identity
      1. Digital Identity Gateway
      2. Identity Check policy
    8. Report Settings
      1. New report experience
      2. Classic report settings
    9. Security Settings
      1. Single Sign-on settings
      2. Remember-me settings
      3. Login password policy
      4. Login password strength
      5. Web session duration
      6. PDF encryption type
      7. API
      8. User and group info access
      9. Allowed IP Ranges
      10. Account Sharing
      11. Account sharing permissions
      12. Agreement sharing controls
      13. Signer identity verification
      14. Agreement signing password
      15. Document password strength
      16. Block signers by Geolocation
      17. Phone Authentication
      18. Knowledge-Based Authentication (KBA)
      19. Allow page extraction
      20. Document link expiration
      21. Upload a client certificate for webhooks/callbacks
      22. Timestamp
    10. Send Settings
      1. Show Send page after login
      2. Agreement creation experiences
      3. Require recipient name when sending
      4. Lock name values for known users
      5. Allowed recipient roles
      6. Allow e-Witnesses
      7. Recipient groups
      8. CCs
      9. Required fields
      10. Attaching documents
      11. Field flattening
      12. Modify Agreements
      13. Remove recipients from in-flight agreements
      14. Create a copy (of an agreement)
      15. Agreement name
      16. Languages
      17. Private messages
      18. Allowed signature types
      19. Reminders
      20. Signed document password protection
      21. Send Agreement Notification through
      22. Signer identification options
        1. Overview
        2. Signing password
        3. Knowledge-based authentication
        4. Phone authentication
        5. WhatsApp authentication
        6. One-Time Password via Email
        7. Acrobat Sign authentication
        8. Cloud-based digital signature
        9. Digital Identity authentication
        10. Government ID
        11. Signer Identity reports
      23. Populate form fields with identity-verified data
      24. Content Protection
      25. Enable Notarize transactions
      26. Document Expiration
      27. Preview, position signatures, and add fields
      28. Signing order
      29. Add myself
      30. Download agreement link
      31. Form field borders
      32. Liquid mode
      33. Custom workflow controls
      34. Upload options for the e-sign page
      35. Post-sign confirmation URL redirect
      36. Restrict access to shared agreements
    11. Message Templates
      1. Overview of Message Templates
      2. Creating new Message Templates
      3. Editing Message Templates
      4. Deleting Message Templates
    12. Bio-Pharma Settings
      1. Overview
      2. Enforce identity authentication
      3. Signing reasons
    13. Workflow Integration
    14. Notarization Settings
    15. Payments Integration
    16. Signer Messaging
    17. SAML Settings
      1. SAML Configuration
      2. Install Microsoft Active Directory Federation Service
      3. Install Okta
      4. Install OneLogin
      5. Install Oracle Identity Federation
    18. Data Governance
    19. Time Stamp Settings
    20. External Archive
    21. Account Languages
    22. Email Settings
      1. Email header/footer images
      2. Permit individual user email footers
      3. Customize the Signature Requested email
      4. Customize the To and CC fields
      5. Enable Linkless Notifications
      6. Customize email templates
    23. Migrating from echosign.com to adobesign.com
    24. Configure Options for Recipients
  4. Guidance for regulatory requirements
    1. Accessibility
      1. Accessibility Compliance
      2. Create accessible forms with Acrobat desktop
      3. Create accessible AcroForms
    2. HIPAA
    3. GDPR
      1. GDPR Overview
      2. Redact a user
      3. Redact a user's agreements    
    4. 21 CFR part 11 and EudraLex Annex 11
      1. 21 CRF part 11 validation pack
      2. 21 CFR and EudraLex Annex 11 handbook
      3. Analysis of shared responsibilities
    5. Healthcare customers
    6. IVES support
    7. "Vaulting" agreements
    8. EU/UK considerations
      1. EU/UK Cross-border transactions and eIDAS
      2. HMLR requirements for deeds signed electronically
      3. The impact of Brexit on e-signature laws in the UK
  5. Download Agreements in Bulk
  6. Claim your domain 
  7. Report Abuse links
  8. System Requirements and Limitations
    1. System requirements
    2. Transaction limits

Send, Sign, and Manage Agreements

  1. Recipient Options
    1. Cancel an email reminder
    2. Options on the e-signing page
      1. Overview of the e-sign page
      2. Open to read the agreement without fields
      3. Decline to sign an agreement
      4. Delegate signing authority
      5. Restart the agreement
      6. Download a PDF of the agreement
      7. View the agreement history
      8. View the agreement messages
      9. Convert from an electronic to a written signature
      10. Convert from a written to an electronic signature 
      11. Navigate the form fields
      12. Clear the data from the form fields
      13. E-sign page magnification and navigation
      14. Change the language used in the agreement tools and information
      15. Review the Legal Notices
      16. Adjust Acrobat Sign Cookie Preferences
  2. Send Agreements  
    1. Send (Compose) page
      1. Overview of landmarks and features
      2. Group selector
      3. Adding files and templates
      4. Agreement name
      5. Global Message
      6. Completion Deadline
      7. Reminders
      8. Password protect the PDF
      9. Signature type
      10. Locale for the recipient
      11. Recipient signature order/flow
      12. Recipient roles
      13. Recipient authentication
      14. Private message for the recipient
      15. Recipient agreement access
      16. CC'd parties
      17. Identity check
    2. Send an agreement only to yourself
    3. Send an agreement to others
    4. Written Signatures
    5. Recipient signing order
    6. Send in Bulk
      1. Overview of the Send in Bulk feature
      2. Send in Bulk - Configure a parent template
      3. Send in Bulk - Configure the CSV file
      4. Cancel a Send in Bulk transaction
      5. Add reminders to Send in Bulk
      6. Reporting for Send in Bulk
  3. Authoring fields into documents
    1. In-app authoring environment
      1. Automatic field detection
      2. Drag and drop fields using the authoring environment
      3. Assign form fields to recipients
      4. The Prefill role
      5. Apply fields with a reusable field template
      6. Transfer fields to a new library template
      7. Updated authoring environment when sending agreements
    2. Create forms with text tags
      1. Text Tags - Overview
      2. Text tags - Basics and syntax
      3. Text tags - Supported field types
      4. Text tags - Examples
      5. Text tags - Advanced behaviors
      6. Text tags - Calculated fields
      7. Text tags - Identity-verified data
      8. Text tags - Troubleshooting
    3. Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
      1. AcroForm creation
      2. Creating accessible PDFs
    4. Fields
      1. Field types
        1. Common field types
        2. E-signature fields
        3. Initials field
        4. Recipient name field
        5. Recipient email field
        6. Date of signing field
        7. Text field
        8. Date field
        9. Number field
        10. Checkbox
        11. Checkbox group
        12. Radio button
        13. Drop-down menu
        14. Link overlay
        15. Payment field
        16. Attachments
        17. Participation stamp
        18. Transaction number
        19. Image
        20. Company
        21. Title
        22. Stamp
      2. Field content appearance
      3. Field validations
      4. Masked fields values
      5. Setting show/hide conditions
      6. Calculated fields 
    5. Authoring FAQ
  4. Sign Agreements
    1. Sign agreements sent to you
    2. Fill & Sign
    3. Self-signing
  5. Manage Agreements
    1. Manage page overview
    2. Copy an Agreement
    3. Delegate agreements
    4. Replace Recipients
    5. Limit Document Visibility 
    6. Cancel an Agreement 
    7. Create new reminders
    8. Review reminders
    9. Cancel a reminder
    10. Access Power Automate flows
    11. More Actions...
      1. How search works
      2. View an agreement
      3. Create a template from an agreement
      4. Hide/Unhide agreements from view
      5. Upload a signed agreement
      6. Modify a sent agreement's files and fields
      7. Edit a recipient's authentication method
      8. Add or modify an expiration date
      9. Add a Note to the agreement
      10. Share an individual agreement
      11. Unshare an agreement
      12. Download an individual agreement
      13. Download the individual files of an agreement
      14. Download the Audit Report of an agreement
      15. Download the field content of an agreement
  6. Audit Report
  7. Reporting and Data exports
    1. Overview
    2. Grant users access to reporting
    3. Report charts
      1. Create a new report
      2. Agreement Reports
      3. Transaction Reports
      4. Settings Activity Report
      5. Edit a report
    4. Data Exports 
      1. Create a new data export
      2. Web form data export
      3. Edit a data export
      4. Refresh the data export content
      5. Download the data export
    5. Rename a report/export
    6. Duplicate a report/export
    7. Schedule a report/export
    8. Delete a report/export
    9. Check Transaction Usage

Advanced Agreement Capabilities and Workflows

  1. Webforms 
    1. Create a web form
    2. Edit a web form
    3. Disable/Enable a web form
    4. Hide/Unhide a web form
    5. Find the URL or script code 
    6. Prefill web form fields with URL parameters
    7. Save a web form to complete later
    8. Resize a web form
  2. Reusable Templates (Library templates) 
    1. US Government forms in the Acrobat Sign library
    2. Create a library template
    3. Change a library template's name
    4. Change a library template's type
    5. Change a library template's permission level
    6. Copy, edit, and save a shared template
    7. Download the aggregate field data for a library template
  3. Transfer ownership of web forms and library templates
  4. Power Automate Workflows 
    1. Overview of the Power Automate integration and included entitlements
    2. Enable the Power Automate integration
    3. In-Context Actions on the Manage page
    4. Track Power Automate usage
    5. Create a new flow (Examples)
    6. Triggers used for flows
    7. Importing flows from outside Acrobat Sign
    8. Manage flows
    9. Edit flows
    10. Share flows
    11. Disable or Enable flows
    12. Delete flows
    13. Useful Templates
      1. Administrator only
        1. Save all completed documents to SharePoint
        2. Save all completed documents to OneDrive for Business
        3. Save all completed documents to Google Drive
        4. Save all completed documents to DropBox
        5. Save all completed documents to Box
      2. Agreement archival
        1. Save your completed documents to SharePoint
        2. Save your completed documents to One Drive for Business
        3. Save your completed documents to Google Drive
        4. Save your completed documents to DropBox
        5. Save your completed documents to Box
      3. Webform agreement archival
        1. Save completed web form documents to SharePoint Library
        2. Save completed web form documents to OneDrive for Business
        3. Save completed   documents to Google Drive
        4. Save completed web form documents to Box
      4. Agreement data extraction
        1. Extract form field data from your signed document and update Excel sheet
      5. Agreement notifications
        1. Send custom email notifications with your agreement contents and signed agreement
        2. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in a Teams Channel
        3. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Slack
        4. Get your Adobe Acrobat Sign notifications in Webex
      6. Agreement generation
        1. Generate document from Power App form and Word template, send for signature
        2. Generate agreement from Word template in OneDrive, and get signature
        3. Generate agreement for selected Excel row, send for review and signature
  5. Custom Send workflows
    1. Custom Send Workflow Overview
    2. Creating a new Send Workflow
    3. Edit a Send Workflow
    4. Activate or Deactivate a Send Workflow
    5. Send an agreement with a Send Workflow
  6. Share users and agreements
    1. Share a user
    2. Share agreements

Integrate with other products

  1.  Acrobat Sign integrations overview 
  2. Acrobat Sign for Salesforce
  3. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft
    1. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft 365
    2. Acrobat Sign for Outlook
    3. Acrobat Sign for Word/PowerPoint
    4. Acrobat Sign for Teams
    5. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft PowerApps and Power Automate
    6. Acrobat Sign Connector for Microsoft Search
    7. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft Dynamics 
    8. Acrobat Sign for Microsoft SharePoint 
  4. Other Integrations
    1. Acrobat Sign for ServiceNow
    2. Acrobat Sign for HR ServiceNow
    3. Acrobat Sign for SAP SuccessFactors
    4. Acrobat Sign for Workday
    5. Acrobat Sign for NetSuite
    6. Acrobat Sign for VeevaVault
    7. Acrobat Sign for Coupa BSM Suite
  5. Partner managed integrations
  6. How to obtain an integration key

Acrobat Sign Developer

  1. REST APIs 
    1. Methods documentation
    2. SDK/Developer Guide
    3. API FAQ    
  2. Webhooks 
    1. Webhook overview
    2. Configure a new webhook
    3. View or edit a webhook
    4. Deactivate or reactivate a webhook
    5. Delete a webhook
    6. Two-way SSL certificates
    7. Webhooks in the API
  3. Sandbox
    1. Sandbox overview
    2. Link your Production and Sandbox
    3. Sandbox asset types

Support and Troubleshooting

  1. Customer Support Resources 
  2. Enterprise Customer Success Resources 

Automatically populate and lock critical form fields using identity-verified data when a signer completes an identity verification check. This reduces data entry errors and provides clear, auditable proof that specific values came from a trusted source.

Verified Forms let you bind verified identity information returned by an identity provider to form fields. When a signer successfully completes identity verification with a provider connected via the Digital Identity Gateway, Adobe Acrobat Sign inserts values from the identity claims into the tagged fields during signing, ensuring that critical data comes directly from a trusted source.

This capability is designed for high-trust workflows in regulated and security-sensitive environments, such as financial services and government.

How identity-verified data works

Identity-verified data is triggered only by field name conventions in either the authoring UI, text tags, or API.

There are:

  • No UI controls to configure identity-verified fields.
  • No validation when the document is uploaded or sent.
  • No error messages if the configuration is incorrect.

If the field name does not match the required syntax exactly, the field behaves like a normal form field or is ignored entirely.

Required field naming syntax

To bind a form field to identity-verified data from an identity provider, the field name must follow this exact pattern:

VF_DIG_{claimName}*

Where:

  • VF_ identifies the field as a verified form field.
  • DIG_ specifies the Digital Identity Gateway authentication method.
  • {claimName}  is the exact OpenID Connect (OIDC) claim name returned by the configured identity provider, including spelling and casing, surrounded by curly brackets.
  • * is optional text used to make the field name unique.

Examples:

  • VF_DIG_{birthdate}
  • VF_DIG_{address}_page2
  • VF_DIG_{zipcode}1

If multiple fields reference the same identity claim, each field must still have a unique field name.

Supported identity claims

Only identity claims returned by the configured identity provider are recognized.

Claim names:

  • Are defined by the identity provider, not by Acrobat Sign. It is incumbent on the sender to obtain the list of claim names from their vendor.
  • Are case sensitive.
  • Must match exactly.
  • Do not support aliases.
  • Are ignored silently if incorrect or missing.

If a claim name is not returned by the identity provider during identity verification, the field is not populated with verified data.

Alert

Sender responsibility for data ingestion

Senders are responsible for determining which identity attributes are mapped to form fields when using identity-verified data. By configuring verified form fields, the sender controls which identity provider data fields are populated into an agreement.

Senders must ensure that any data ingested through verified form fields is data they are authorized to process and store using Acrobat Sign, and that such use complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and contractual obligations.

Senders must not configure verified form fields to ingest data that customers are prohibited from collecting, processing, or storing under the Acrobat Sign Product Specific Licensing Terms (PSLT). For example, Acrobat Sign may not be used to store payment card data or sensitive authentication data (as defined by PCI DSS), and customers may not process protected health information unless they have entered into a Business Associate Agreement with Adobe.

Adobe does not review, validate, or restrict the data selected by the sender for ingestion through verified form fields.

Field behavior during signing

Verified form fields follow existing Acrobat Sign field behaviors, with identity-aware overrides.

Read-only fields

  • Are populated with verified data when the claim is present.
  • Cannot be edited by the signer.
  • Override any predefined value.
  • If the claim is missing, the predefined value is used.

Editable fields

  • Are populated with verified data when the claim is present.
  • Remain editable by the signer.
  • Allow the signer to change the value.

Required fields

  • Behave like editable fields
  • Require signer input if the claim is missing, empty, or null

Silent failure conditions

Identity-verified data fails silently in all of the following cases:

  • The field name does not follow the required syntax.
  • The claim name is misspelled or uses incorrect casing.
  • The claim is not returned by the identity provider.
  • The feature is disabled at the account or group level.

The agreement or web form still sends successfully.

Always validate field behavior in the authoring environment before distributing the agreement or web form.

Signer Identity Report behavior

When an agreement contains one or more verified form fields, the Signer Identity Report – if enabled at the sender’s account or group level – includes a dedicated section listing those fields.

For each verified form field, the Signer Identity Report includes the following information:

  • The field name
  • The final value
  • A single state indicator

Possible states on the Signer Identity Report

Note

States are determined after the agreement is completed. They reflect the final value source and do not validate the configuration during authoring or signing.

Each verified form field is assigned one state only, based on the following priority order.

  • Edited - The signer changed the field value during signing.
    • Predicate:
      • Field is editable, and
      • The final value was modified by the signer
  • Verified - The field value originates from identity-verified data and has not been meaningfully altered.
    • Predicate:
      • Matching identity claim was returned, and
      • Final value matches the verified claim value
    • Applies to:
      • Read-only fields populated from verified data
      • Editable fields left unchanged
      • The field populated from verified data was edited, but the value remained identical.
  • Predefined - The field retained its default value set by the author.
    • Predicate:
      • No identity-verified data applied, and
      • No higher-priority state applies.
  • Claim Not Present - The referenced identity claim was not returned by the identity provider.
    • Predicate: 
      • Claim name specified in the form field does not exist in the identity provider response.
  • Empty or Null Value - The referenced identity claim was returned without a usable value.
    • Predicate:
      • Claim exists but is empty or null.
      • Empty means an empty string or object.
      • Null means the value is explicitly null.

Notes

  • Only one state is assigned per field.
  • States do not generate warnings or errors.
  • The report reflects outcomes, not configuration errors.
Example Signer Identity Report witht he verified data highlighted

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