Advanced Features When Assigning Fields to a Document

Once you understand the basics of placing fields onto your document, you can turn your attention to a few other features and tips that will help you customize the fields you've assigned more. 

Remember: As you are placing fields on your document, you can use keyboard functions to tab into and out of fields, hit "enter" to interact with them and "escape" to exit:

Field Alignment

When the "Suggest Fields" setting is enabled, it will detect any blank lines in the document and help you align the field boxes on those lines: 

Resizing Field Boxes

Another useful feature with the field boxes is the ability to resize the font or the length of a field by dragging the corners of the field to the desired size/length:

For text fields, the size of the font and the field itself can only be enlarged to a certain extent.

To make the text field continue onto the next line, hit "enter" and the field will grow automatically. Alternatively, you can enable the "fixed width" feature and this will require the text to carry to the next line when it reaches the width of the text box: 

Take note that if you resize a field to a certain size, it will remain that size the next time you select it unless you change it by dragging the corners of the field again.

Advanced Text Field Features

Within the text and date field boxes is an "Advanced" option:

Adding Labels To Text Fields

To change the text that the recipient sees when they click to fill out a field, you can add a label. For instance, instead of keeping "text" you could enter instructions like "Enter First Name":

Then your recipient will see these instructions when they are filling out the form: 

Autopopulate Text Fields

Any text fields that have the same label will autopopulate on-click as long as one of them has been filled out: 

Even when no labels are set up, every time a text field is completed, an autopopulate drop-down with text from previously completed fields will be available: 

Field Validation

You can also set field validation so that the recipient must enter the characters that are required, for instance, "numbers only":

Date Fields

With the date fields, clicking on the "Advanced" button will give you the option to change the date format, depending on what works best for you: 

You can also adjust the date field format on the account level in your Account Settings: 

For contracts that require a time stamp as well as a date, you can select this date/time format in the Advanced -> Date Format setting: 

Lock Signing Date

Date fields have an option that locks and automatically completes them with the signing date. To enable this option, turn on the "Lock Signing Date" feature in the date field:

With this enabled, the date field will automatically populate when your recipient/s begin signing their document.

Requiring Fields

Finally, you can choose to make fields required or not required by clicking on the "yes" or "no" button below the recipient's name:

If a field is required, there will be a red vertical line next to it. If it is not required, the vertical line will be grey: 

Make sure your fields are correctly set to required or optional before sending your document.