What´s the best way to add signatures to Documents / PDFs inside Aras?

RE: What´s the best way to add signatures to Documents / PDFs inside Aras?

Wian le Roux — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:09:34 GMT

HI Angela! Will do :)

RE: What´s the best way to add signatures to Documents / PDFs inside Aras?

AngelaIp — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:48:20 GMT

Hi Wian,

I want to encourage you (and of course all other Aras customers that have a subscription) to participate in Aras´ current survey that can be seen in the subscriber portal!

Just login to the subscriber portal, somewhere in the announcements you can see this one:

We'd Like Your Feedback - PDF Features in Aras Innovator

Tell Aras that you love digital signing and that this would be a killer feature for PDFs, not matter if their come from Office or TechDocs. If you need more ideas for the rest of the survey -> tell them also that we need much more SPEEEED for their inbuilt PDF viewer. And that the watermark feature has a lot of potential that is currently not used.

If you are busy and don´t have the time to write too much text. Just write everywhere that you pretty much support all ideas that were submitted by this user called "Angela". 😃

Best regards!

Angela

RE: What´s the best way to add signatures to Documents / PDFs inside Aras?

Wian le Roux — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:57:07 GMT

Hi Angela! Thank you so much for the response :) I also hope its in the mid-term roadmap as it would be a super handy feature!

Wian

RE: What´s the best way to add signatures to Documents / PDFs inside Aras?

AngelaIp — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 14:10:21 GMT

Hi Wian,

oh my two year old requests. I really love all of them.

Chris forwarded me to the product manager responsible for Office Connector and we shared some ideas.

My first idea was using the watermarking feature to add some signature-like watermark to the document. I actually made a couple of successful tests and in theory the whole concept would work. But watermarks are no real digital signatures and I was not very happy with the draft as it only allowed static signatures.

Aras was very interesting in the topic of providing "real" digital signatures for Innovator documents. But this one is not an easy topic and my last feedback was, that changes to the Innovator core are required (which basically means they will need some time).

The corresponding request is IR-063503 ( OC: Ability to add digital signature to documents) when you want to ask for the current status. The ticket is two years old, but it was updated very often (last time this August!). So there definitely seem to be some kind of progress. But I am not sure if digital signing is on the mid-term roadmap.

Angela

RE: What´s the best way to add signatures to Documents / PDFs inside Aras?

Wian le Roux — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:16:29 GMT

Hi Angela, did you get a solution for this? Were looking at the same scenario. Any advise would be appreciated, thanks!

Wian

RE: What´s the best way to add signatures to Documents / PDFs inside Aras?

Christopher Gillis — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:03:18 GMT

Hi Angela, There doesn't appear to be any standard functionality to support a digital signature, but I have filed this request internally as an enhancement for the Office Connector. One of our Product Managers had some follow up questions to this issue, and may reach out to you directly for further clarification about this use case. Chris

Christopher Gillis Aras Labs Software Engineer