I need to implement electronic signatures from an Access database without using a signature pad. I do not have an actual document that needs to be signed - just a field on an Access form. We currently use a Topaz signature pad but are needing to get away from that.
Thanks in advance,
Karen
Yes, you can. There are several .net api to access DocuSign.
You can use them to create the DocuSign envelope. You will also need to implement something to retrieve the signed envelopes. There are two options:
a cron job that calls DocuSign to get all the updated envelopes since the last call
a REST service that DocuSign will call to inform your application of every event that happens on your envelopes.
If you want to use the second option, your REST service should be open to Internet (you can find the subnet to open in the DocuSign documentation).
DocuSign is used to sign documents, not data. Since your database is holding a form's worth of data, I suggest that you:
Create a template in DocuSign that represents the Access form
When you make the Envelopes: Create call to DocuSign, populate the template's data fields with the data from the Access db.
The result will be a signing request that looks like the form in your database.
Once the document is signed in DocuSign, you can record the envelope ID in Access. It can then be used to view the signed document. Or you can download the signed documents and store them locally.
Ask further questions here if you have any difficulties.
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Is it possible to create an add-on that can send off the contents of an email into a webservice? I see lots of documentation on add-ons interacting with external webservices and have been able to follow a simple demo about it, but there isn't much I can find about interacting with the emails itself.
I have an add-on in Outlook that grabs the email and sends it off to a webservice, but I want to replicate this in Gmail in some way.
Next, I would also like to know if it's possible to use a different web service based on the user. For example, if I were to deploy this same add-on for a coworker but they needed to send the email to the different service. Is there a configuration file somewhere that controls this?
Lastly, I was also interested in how Gmail add-ons store personalized information, as I feel like it would help clear things up. E.g. how the tasks add-on grabs the right ones for the currently logged in user and where they are stored.
I would be open to any other solutions to this issue.
Communicating with web service
You can use the UrlFetchApp class to connect to any target web service if it can be accessed via HTTP request. If you need to access different web services for different users, you can either do so via storing "user:url" property (see below) or by conditionally changing the URL according to effective user.
Determining the user
You can determine under whose authority the Add-on is running by using a Session class method getEffectiveUser() and getEmail() on the resulting user.
Storing personalized info
As for storing and fetching personalized information, there is a PropertiesService class you can use. Since you want to store info related to end users, you'll need to get a Properties class instance with access to user-specific properties via getUserProperties() method.
Useful links
Gmail Add-ons reference;
PropertiesService class reference;
Guide on PropertiesService usage;
UrlFetchApp class reference;
I am working on an Identity management application, using which my goal is to manage users on Box application.
I was going through Box documentation, and there are two ways for authentication
OAuth 2.0, which has redirection URI as required parameter. And due to which I cannot make use of it, since I will not be able to enter username and password and Authorize dynamically using my Java code.
Reference: https://box-content.readme.io/reference#oauth-2
JWT authentication, this I can use in my code and successfully get Access token. But problem here is, this access token can only be used to manage App Users (who will not have login to Box website).
Reference: https://box-content.readme.io/docs/box-developer-edition
So, is there any other authentication mechanism which I can use for getting Access token for managing Box users?
Regards,
Sandeep
The current best option is #1 with a process like this:
Create a Box application with the 'Manage an Enterprise' scope enabled.
Use a web-based access token generator (such as this or this) to get an initial access/refresh token pair. Save these somewhere safe (flat file, DB).
Code your application to initialize itself with the access/refresh token pair from its saved location.
When the access/refresh token pair is refreshed, write them out to the save location.
If your application runs across multiple nodes/processes this approach will require some (painful) coordination between them. I believe Box is working on some improvements in this area, so you may not have to live with this for long.
Is it possible to create an entry in a Lotus Notes Calendar, specifically a "reminder" using an Access VBA script when a new entry is made in the Access database table? I have had a search on google but the only thing I can find so far is send an email to Lotus Notes. The email option but work if I can create it as a Lotus Notes invitation. Is that a possible alternative?
If you found examples for sending an email, then you found examples on how to open the users mailfile (called dbMail in the following examples) using OpenMail method of NotesDatabase- class.
Now you just need to create a document using Set doc = dbMail.CreateDocument in that database, tell it to be an Appointment by applying the form- item Call doc.ReplaceItemValue( "Form", "Appointment" ) and then set all the required items. The needed items can be found in the calendaring and scheduling schema at IBM.
Sorry for not posting specific code, but did not want to put more effort in my answer then you did in your question...
The description of all classes (for LotusScript, but they are mainly the same in VB / VBA) can be found in the Domino Designer- Help you find at various places in the web.
If person A can create an appointment for person B, and that appointment is to be created immediately in B's calendar, A would need write-access to B's calendar. If it should work like that for any A and B in the organisation, you'll have a serious problem. That's why Notes works using invitations.
Please define first which of the two applications is leading in your organisation, Notes or the Access Calendar? If it is Notes, you should indeed send invitations, and your application should be inquiring Notes/Domino regularly about the status of the appointments. If it is your Access application, you can indeed put the appointment document directly in the user's database, but that would require write access to all user mail/calendar databases.
We solved a similar problem by creating an intermediary database (application) on the Domino server that is the interface between the (Access) application and the Notes environment. The Notes application runs as a special user, with write-access to all user databases. The Access application can communicate with that database in any way you seem fit: mail, web-services, COM-interface.
Better refrain from writing user mail databases directly. Either send invitations, or create a Notes-based "replicator" application.
I want to use Zapier to register a new Wordpress user — the trigger will be a new purchase on Gumroad.
This plugin — https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api-user/ — allows you to register users using a public JSON interface, eg by hitting
https://example.com/api/user/register/?username={{email}}&email={{email}}&nonce=blahblahblah
I'm new to all this, but know that I can get Zapier to insert the purchaser's email from Gumroad into {{email}}.
My question is, how can I do this in a secure way?
(At the moment anyone can hit example.com.com/api/get_nonce/?controller=user&method=register and get the key they need)
And maybe it can even be done without using Zapier?
I'm assuming that the nonce is only good for a short period of time, like a couple minutes? If so, what you want to do is lock down the /api/get_nonce/ endpoint to require a password. That way only authenticated users can get a nonce, which can then be used to create the user.
As for how Zapier fits in, it's a bit complicated to custom build a two-request process like this. You would have to make your own app on the Developer Platform do the nonce call and then the user creation.
I use the following plugin to create users (via Zapier) on my WordPress sites after someone signed up on my Teachable school: WP Webhooks Pro
This plugin allows me to either POST the data to my WordPress site via JSON, XML or a simple form data. In my case, I don't need a nonce, since the plugin generates API keys that I can use to push my data to.
Is it possible to use email to update mysql table?
for example I have someone send email which have today article with the image as an attachment and it have to send to particular email address (eg: abc#something.org) to be able to process data to sql table, other address will not work for updating.
Once it receive, it automatically proceed and update sql from the article it receive.
How is it work?
is there any open source that may help this process
Not by sql, you have to involve some sort of programming language which have a subset of methods to communicate with the database and that can receive and send email.
Take a look at Sendgrid (at http://sendgrid.com): they have a parse API (see http://wiki.sendgrid.com/doku.php?id=parse_api for details) that basically lets you convert an email into an HTTP POST. So if you already have a web page that can update the MySQL database you can just modify it to comply with their spec, set up a sub domain that forwards to Sendgrid and then setup a Sendgrid endpoint that takes any email to that sub domain and posts it to your web page.
It depends on your application. If you're using a framework like Wordpress, there are plenty of plugins available to integrate (e.g. Postie). If you have your own custom application, you may find an open source script to download the new messages, but you'll have to implement your own code to update your database.