{"id":11366,"date":"2021-08-17T16:56:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T07:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T05:53:47","slug":"how-to-auto-populate-a-signed-date-in-an-e-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/how-to-auto-populate-a-signed-date-in-an-e-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"How to auto-populate a signed date in an e-contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Only the company administrator<\/strong> or members with the Manage templates<\/strong> permission can perform this action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

You can set the signature date to be automatically populated in a signed document such as an e-contract or e-agreement.


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Using the eformsign Web Form Designer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Upload a file (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image) you want to convert to an e-form.<\/li>
  2. Add a signature field.<\/li>
  3. Click on the signature field and click on the Add date signed<\/strong> button displayed above the field. The “Date Signed” field will be automatically generated. Now, place the field in the area of the document you want.<\/li>
  4. When the recipient signs the signature, the “Date Signed” field will be automatically populated.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Using the Form Builder Microsoft Add-in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Open a document file (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) you want to convert to an e-form or create a new document from scratch.<\/li>
      2. Add a signature field.<\/li>
      3. Name the component (field) ID in the component properties window. For example, RecipientSignature.<\/li>
      4. Add a date field in which the signed date will be automatically populated.<\/li>
      5. Open the component properties window of the component.<\/li>
      6. Select the “Last modified date of the content” option.<\/li>
      7. In the input component ID field below, enter the ID of the signature component (field), RecipientSignature.<\/li>
      8. When the recipient signs the signature, the “Date Signed” field will be automatically populated.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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        Only the company administrator or members with the Manage templates permission can perform this action. You can set the signature date to be automatically populated in a signed document such as an e-contract or e-agreement. Using the eformsign Web Form Designer Upload a file (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, image) you want to convert to an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[129],"tags":[194,165,154,155,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eformsign.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}