Workflow: Sign and Approve Dialog

The Workflow: Sign and Approve dialog enables you to electronically sign a document that is in a workflow step. This dialog will appear only if electronic signing of documents has been enabled. You have limited time to complete this dialog, as shown in the note on the dialog.

Basic dialog elements

The elements described in this subsection are provided on all instances of the dialog. Other elements may also appear, as configured by a system administrator.

Element	Description
Electronically sign the document...	This information area shows the document and workflow step that you can sign and approve for.
Signed By:	This information area identifies the user who can sign and approve the document. This is based on the user who is currently signed in to the server from this computer.
Password	Enter your password. This is the same as the one you use for the current server.
Note	This information area tells you how many minutes you are allowed to complete this dialog.
Help	Click this button to display context-sensitive help information for this dialog.
Sign and Approve	Click this button to close the dialog and sign and approve the document.
Cancel	Click this button to close the dialog without doing anything.

Configured dialog elements

A system administrator is able to configure the dialog to show additional optional or mandatory elements. For example, there may be a text box for entering a reason for the workflow approval, and you may have to complete it before you can click the Sign and Approve button. There may also be informational text, with a requirement that you select a check box to confirm that you have read it.