To create a library template, navigate to the Home tab, then select Create a reusable template
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Get Started
- Quick start guide for administrators
- Quick start guide for users
- For Developers
- Video tutorial library
- FAQ
Administer
- Admin Console Overview
- User Management
- Adding users
- Create function-focused users
- Check for users with provisioning errors
- Change Name/Email Address
- Edit a user's group membership
- Edit a user's group membership through the group interface
- Promote a user to an admin role
- User Identity Types and SSO
- Switch User Identity
- Authenticate Users with MS Azure
- Authenticate Users with Google Federation
- Product Profiles
- Login Experience
- Account/Group Settings
- Settings Overview
- Global Settings
- Account tier and ID
- New Recipient Experience
- Self Signing Workflows
- Send in Bulk
- Web Forms
- Custom Send Workflows
- Power Automate Workflows
- Library Documents
- 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
- Apply Adaptive Signature Draw scaling
- 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
- System Requirements and Limitations
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
- Send (Compose) page
- Overview of landmarks and features
- Group selector
- Adding files and templates
- Agreement name
- Global Message
- Completion Deadline
- Reminders
- Password protect the PDF
- Signature type
- Locale for the recipient
- Recipient signature order/flow
- Recipient roles
- Recipient authentication
- Private message for the recipient
- Recipient agreement access
- CC'd parties
- Identity check
- Send an agreement only to yourself
- Send an agreement to others
- Written Signatures
- Recipient signing order
- Send in Bulk
- Send (Compose) page
- Authoring fields into documents
- In-app authoring environment
- Create forms with text tags
- Create forms using Acrobat (AcroForms)
- Fields
- Field types
- Common field types
- E-signature fields
- Initials field
- Recipient name field
- Recipient email field
- Date of signing field
- Text field
- Date field
- Number field
- Checkbox
- Radio button
- Drop-down menu
- Link overlay
- Payment field
- Attachments
- Participation stamp
- Transaction number
- Image
- Company
- Title
- Stamp
- Field content appearance
- Field validations
- Masked fields values
- Setting show/hide conditions
- Calculated fields
- Field types
- 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
- Sandbox
Support and Troubleshooting
Use document templates to streamline workflows, reduce errors, and keep your team working with the latest version of every form.
Library templates let users create reusable, interactive documents. These templates can range from simple agreements with a single signature field, like non-disclosure agreements, to complex forms for tax filings or employee onboarding.
If you frequently use the same file to define an agreement, a template can streamline the process by speeding up document delivery, ensuring consistency in the final signed contract, and keeping your team aligned with the latest version.
Types of Templates
Library templates can be created in two ways:
- Form Field Layer templates – These templates contain only the fields applied to an uploaded file. They’re ideal for organizations that generate contracts dynamically with custom content but follow a standardized format. Upload the file and apply the field layer to position all fields.
- Document templates – These templates include both the base file and predefined fields. They work best for static, boilerplate documents that don’t require dynamic content, such as tax forms, applications, and non-disclosure agreements.
The user who creates a template is its owner.
Only the owner can edit the template or change its permission level unless it's shared with their group or the organization:
- Account-level admins can edit the template from the Shared Libraries section in the admin menu if shared with the organization.
- Group-level admins can edit the template from the Shared Libraries section in the admin menu if shared with a group in which they have admin authority.
- Account-level admins also have access to all documents shared with any groups.
Account-level admins or the group admin overseeing the original creator can transfer template ownership to another user.
Create a library template
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The Create a Library Template configuration page loads.
Enter the name of your template into the Template Name field.
If you do not explicitly enter a name for the template, the field will adopt the name of the first document added.
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Drag and drop your files into the Files section, or select the Add Files link at the upper-right corner of the Files field to browse your system.
Multiple files can be attached to build one larger template if desired.
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Configure the Template Type:
- Reusable document - This option saves the full document, content and form fields
- Reusable form field layer - This options saves just the form field layer to be applied to a different document (different content with the same layout)
- Both - Both types of templates will be available
Note:At any time you can change the type of template by editing the template properties.
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Configure Who can use this template.
This setting will grant access to the template based on the uploading user:
- Only me - This option will only make the template available to the uploading user.
- Selected Groups (Enterprise only) - Enterprise accounts have the option to associate a template with multiple groups. If the option is not available to you, contact your administrator to request the option be enabled.
- Any user in my group - Setting the template at the group level will create a logical association between the template and the group the uploading user is currently part of. All members of the group will have access to the template.
- Moving the user who uploaded the template to another group will not break this template-group association.
- The template is made available to edit for the account-level admin and the group-level admin of the user's group in the Shared Libraries menu.
- Changing the Group relationship of the template will remove it from access for the previous group, but will not impact agreements that have already been sent using the template.
- Accounts that have Users in Multiple Groups enabled will have a dropdown field to select the group the template should be related to when sent.
- Any user in my organization - Every user in the account will have access to use the template.
- The template is made available to edit for the account-level admin in the Shared Libraries menu.
Note:The owning user of a template can always delete the template.
The owning user and the group/account admins can edit the template.
Other users can manipulate the template after it has been applied to an Agreement by selecting Preview & Add Signature Fields during the send process. This edits the properties of the template for the discrete agreement, and does not change the root template.
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Select Preview & Add Fields to send the template to the authoring environment.
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The Drag and Drop authoring environment opens. Drag fields from the right rail onto your document in the desired places.
Note:All fields placed are assigned to the first recipient by default. You can change who the placed fields are assigned to by accessing the Recipients drop-down list and changing the selected recipient.
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Save the template when you're done.