Basically I am uploading a document which has pdf fields already (using Adobe acrobat), and I want to pre-fill a field with value as "John" while sending it but it is unable to set any value. I am recieving the pdf and it has indeed detected all the fields but no value has been filled. What am I doing wrong?
{
"documents": [{
"documentId": 101,
"documentBase64": "{{document}}",
"name": "new",
"fileExtension": "pdf",
"transformPdfFields": true
}],
"emailSubject": "Test Sign",
"recipients": {
"signers": [{
"email": "myself@gmail.com",
"name": "Abhay",
"recipientId": 1,
"tabs": {
"textTabs": [
{
"tabLabel": "dealer_name",
"value": "John"
}]
}
}]
},
"status": "sent"
}
I believe that you need to use the Composite Templates pattern since you want to change (the value) of a field after it was created (transformed) from the PDF form field.
This blog post has the details.
Also, after you send the envelope, whether it works or not, use Envelopes:get to see the tabs that were added by the PDF transform. That will show you the details on the tabs that were created from the PDF form.
Here's a tool that will show you the Envelopes:get response.
// API call for Envelopes:get:
let apiMethod = `/accounts/${accountId}/envelopes/${envelopeId}?
include=recipients,documents,custom_fields,folders,tabs"`;