February 2023 Release: Onboarding 2.0
We love our power users, so we built a brand new comprehensive onboarding for Workspace Administrators to help them understand each Legito componen...
In addition to Legito BioSign, and integrations with various other electronic signature providers such as Adobe Sign and DocuSign, we have now released Legito Sign – Legito’s very own electronic signature that allows you to electronically sign contracts and other documents directly in your Legito Workspace.
Legito Sign is embedded directly in your Legito Workspace with absolutely no integration required. Legito Sign is free for Legito customers.
To activate Legito Sign, go to the Basic section of your Workspace Settings and check the Legito Sign box.
If you don’t have a Drop Area on your Legito Dashboard yet, simply create one and select the ”Sign document” type and then select Legito Sign. Learn more about Dashboard customization.
Ensure that your Workflow settings allow you to start the signing process in the appropriate Workflow Step.
If you use Legito Templates, allow Legito Sign for the Template Suite that you would like to use Legito Sign for.
Now your Workspace is all set, and you can start your signing process in 3 easy steps:
Drop your PDF document into the Drop Area of your Dashboard, or simply click to Start Signing in the Legito Document Editor (if you wish to sign Legito Document).
Select your signatories and choose if you want a consecutive order of signatures.
Select a Signatory in the side menu and place relevant Signature and other fields into your document via drag-and-drop from the side menu into your document.
Once all the desired fields are in the document, click to Start the signing process. When you do this, the signing process officially starts. Legito Sign works in a similar way to the many other electronic signatures. The Signatories will receive an email, they click a button or a link in the email, fill in the relevant fields in the document (in particular the Signature fields), and confirm their consent to the document. Once everyone has signed, the document is emailed back to everyone. Of course, signatories do not need to have a user account.
After Legito Sign is activated, Workspace Admins and users with permission to “Manage Signings” will have a new item in the top Workspace menu – Manage Signing – where they can view and manage all Legito Sign processes.
Legito Documents created from smart Templates – As with any other electronic signature tool, it is possible to use Template Tags to automatically extract signatory names and email addresses. Learn more
Workflow and Document Records – The signing process and its stages are a sub-process of Legito Workflow Stages and Approvals. Workflow Stages are independent of the signing process stages but can be automatically triggered by them (Triggers: Signing in Process, Document was signed, Signature declined). Each PDF document uploaded to your Workspace automatically generates a Document Record. Once a document has been signed by all signatories, the signed document (PDF) is uploaded to the relevant Document Record. This principle is the same for other electronic signatures.
Integrations with other providers of electronic signatures – Legito Sign will provide you with more options regarding e-signatures. It does not override any of Legito’s current integrations with other electronic signature providers. All e-signature integrations are and will be supported in the future, and we will even be adding new ones soon.
Audit Trail (Timeline) – Events such as the start of a signing process, or that the document has been signed, or the signing process was canceled, are recorded in the Audit Trail (Timeline) for the relevant Document Records related to the Legito Sign process.
In addition to Legito BioSign, and integrations with various other electronic signature providers such as Adobe Sign and DocuSign, we have now released Legito Sign – Legito’s very own electronic signature that allows you to electronically sign contracts and other documents directly in your Legito Workspace.
Legito Sign is embedded directly in your Legito Workspace with absolutely no integration required. Legito Sign is free for Legito customers.
To activate Legito Sign, go to the Basic section of your Workspace Settings and check the Legito Sign box.
If you don’t have a Drop Area on your Legito Dashboard yet, simply create one and select the ”Sign document” type and then select Legito Sign. Learn more about Dashboard customization.
Ensure that your Workflow settings allow you to start the signing process in the appropriate Workflow Step.
If you use Legito Templates, allow Legito Sign for the Template Suite that you would like to use Legito Sign for.
Now your Workspace is all set, and you can start your signing process in 3 easy steps:
Drop your PDF document into the Drop Area of your Dashboard, or simply click to Start Signing in the Legito Document Editor (if you wish to sign Legito Document).
Select your signatories and choose if you want a consecutive order of signatures.
Select a Signatory in the side menu and place relevant Signature and other fields into your document via drag-and-drop from the side menu into your document.
Once all the desired fields are in the document, click to Start the signing process. When you do this, the signing process officially starts. Legito Sign works in a similar way to the many other electronic signatures. The Signatories will receive an email, they click a button or a link in the email, fill in the relevant fields in the document (in particular the Signature fields), and confirm their consent to the document. Once everyone has signed, the document is emailed back to everyone. Of course, signatories do not need to have a user account.
After Legito Sign is activated, Workspace Admins and users with permission to “Manage Signings” will have a new item in the top Workspace menu – Manage Signing – where they can view and manage all Legito Sign processes.
Legito Documents created from smart Templates – As with any other electronic signature tool, it is possible to use Template Tags to automatically extract signatory names and email addresses. Learn more
Workflow and Document Records – The signing process and its stages are a sub-process of Legito Workflow Stages and Approvals. Workflow Stages are independent of the signing process stages but can be automatically triggered by them (Triggers: Signing in Process, Document was signed, Signature declined). Each PDF document uploaded to your Workspace automatically generates a Document Record. Once a document has been signed by all signatories, the signed document (PDF) is uploaded to the relevant Document Record. This principle is the same for other electronic signatures.
Integrations with other providers of electronic signatures – Legito Sign will provide you with more options regarding e-signatures. It does not override any of Legito’s current integrations with other electronic signature providers. All e-signature integrations are and will be supported in the future, and we will even be adding new ones soon.
Audit Trail (Timeline) – Events such as the start of a signing process, or that the document has been signed, or the signing process was canceled, are recorded in the Audit Trail (Timeline) for the relevant Document Records related to the Legito Sign process.
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The much-awaited connection between Templates and Objects is here.
Up until now, it was possible to manually add options to Questions and Selects by either typing the text of the option or referencing a value from another element in the Template. Additionally, it is now possible to choose that a Question or Select will display Object Records as an alternative to the ones with options defined “statically” in the given Question or Select.
To apply a choice from Object Records to a Question, click on the Objects tab above the Question. To apply a choice from Object Records for a Select, click the Select and choose Objects at the top of the dropdown. Then continue by selecting the following properties:
Define the Object from which Records users can choose.
Define which Property of the selected Object Record will be displayed.
Choose another property of the Object that will be displayed in the dropdown where users choose the option. The purpose of this label is to help your users identify the right option if the Property value is the same for more options. For example, if the Object is a list of your customers – the Property is <Name> and the Label is <Address>, and there are 3 John Does, the address will help the user identify the correct John Doe.
The Label of the selected Option will not be displayed, therefore it will not be part of the document in the case of a Select element. This property is optional and you can leave it blank.
In case you don’t want to allow users to choose from all Records of the selected Object, it is possible to apply the saved Object Filter (more info in point 5 of this article) for the Select or Question. In this case, users will only be allowed to choose in the Select or Question Records according to the applied filter).
For example, if you have an Object containing your customers that are either active or churned, you can use this to apply a filter so your users can choose only from active customers. The Filter is optional and you can also leave it blank.
It is possible to set Links to Questions and Selects referencing to Objects. The difference between Links to other types of Template Elements or Clauses is that such Links contain one additional parameter that makes it possible to display a value from another Property of the selected Object Record than the one defined in the Question or Link.
Therefore, such Links may display a different text than that of the selected Option in the Question or Select they are referring to. For example, if there is an Object containing your customers and each customer (Object Record) contains information about Name, Address, and Date of Birth, and the Select contains the Name, then one Link to such a Select will display the Address, and the other Link will display the Date of Birth.
It is possible to create Conditions based on a Question or Select referencing to an Object. Because there might be a large number of Object Records and they can dynamically change, it is possible to apply only the text operators (contains, does not contain, is empty, is not empty, etc.) for the definition of such a Condition.
Because there might be a large number of Object Records in a Question or Select referring to an Object, their dropdown in the Document Editor contains a full-text search. The full-text search is based on all text values in the Object Records; not necessarily the values displayed in the dropdown.
Once a Document (Document Version) is created from a Template, it keeps the values of the selected Document Records even if the values of the Properties in the Document Record are changed afterward.
Options displayed in the dropdown of the Question and Select display always be up-to-date values from the time that the page with the Document (Document Version) was opened (loaded) regardless of any previous Document Versions.
User Permissions regarding the Object (or its Records) used in the Questions and Selects are not relevant for the purposes of Templates. Users with assigned permission to the given Template Suite and/or Document can always see values from the applied Object Properties in all Records available in the Question or Select.
Similar to Document Records, it is not possible to apply Sharing of individual Records in an Object.
There are 3 permission levels:
Object with activated Sharing has the following additional setting:
It is possible to activate or deactivate Sharing for Objects in My account => Settings => Objects => Edit (for each Object) and then activate the item “Sharing” (tick the checkbox). It is also possible to deactivate Share for an Object.
The much-awaited connection between Templates and Objects is here.
Up until now, it was possible to manually add options to Questions and Selects by either typing the text of the option or referencing a value from another element in the Template. Additionally, it is now possible to choose that a Question or Select will display Object Records as an alternative to the ones with options defined “statically” in the given Question or Select.
To apply a choice from Object Records to a Question, click on the Objects tab above the Question. To apply a choice from Object Records for a Select, click the Select and choose Objects at the top of the dropdown. Then continue by selecting the following properties:
Define the Object from which Records users can choose.
Define which Property of the selected Object Record will be displayed.
Choose another property of the Object that will be displayed in the dropdown where users choose the option. The purpose of this label is to help your users identify the right option if the Property value is the same for more options. For example, if the Object is a list of your customers – the Property is <Name> and the Label is <Address>, and there are 3 John Does, the address will help the user identify the correct John Doe.
The Label of the selected Option will not be displayed, therefore it will not be part of the document in the case of a Select element. This property is optional and you can leave it blank.
In case you don’t want to allow users to choose from all Records of the selected Object, it is possible to apply the saved Object Filter (more info in point 5 of this article) for the Select or Question. In this case, users will only be allowed to choose in the Select or Question Records according to the applied filter).
For example, if you have an Object containing your customers that are either active or churned, you can use this to apply a filter so your users can choose only from active customers. The Filter is optional and you can also leave it blank.
It is possible to set Links to Questions and Selects referencing to Objects. The difference between Links to other types of Template Elements or Clauses is that such Links contain one additional parameter that makes it possible to display a value from another Property of the selected Object Record than the one defined in the Question or Link.
Therefore, such Links may display a different text than that of the selected Option in the Question or Select they are referring to. For example, if there is an Object containing your customers and each customer (Object Record) contains information about Name, Address, and Date of Birth, and the Select contains the Name, then one Link to such a Select will display the Address, and the other Link will display the Date of Birth.
It is possible to create Conditions based on a Question or Select referencing to an Object. Because there might be a large number of Object Records and they can dynamically change, it is possible to apply only the text operators (contains, does not contain, is empty, is not empty, etc.) for the definition of such a Condition.
Because there might be a large number of Object Records in a Question or Select referring to an Object, their dropdown in the Document Editor contains a full-text search. The full-text search is based on all text values in the Object Records; not necessarily the values displayed in the dropdown.
Once a Document (Document Version) is created from a Template, it keeps the values of the selected Document Records even if the values of the Properties in the Document Record are changed afterward.
Options displayed in the dropdown of the Question and Select display always be up-to-date values from the time that the page with the Document (Document Version) was opened (loaded) regardless of any previous Document Versions.
User Permissions regarding the Object (or its Records) used in the Questions and Selects are not relevant for the purposes of Templates. Users with assigned permission to the given Template Suite and/or Document can always see values from the applied Object Properties in all Records available in the Question or Select.
Similar to Document Records, it is not possible to apply Sharing of individual Records in an Object.
There are 3 permission levels:
Object with activated Sharing has the following additional setting:
It is possible to activate or deactivate Sharing for Objects in My account => Settings => Objects => Edit (for each Object) and then activate the item “Sharing” (tick the checkbox). It is also possible to deactivate Share for an Object.
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It is now possible to use workflows for any Object you have in your workspace – similar to the way you assign a Workflow to a Template. Workflow is drafted in the Workflow Editor and set to be used for Object records.
After the Workflow is created, you can assign it to the Object itself.
There is new functionality for Bulk Replacement of Elements within Bulk Actions.
You can now mark all found elements/clauses for further group actions in the Template Editor. Click “Choose all” in the search tab.
There is a new feature to apply existing filters for the Grid and Kanban Widgets on your dashboard.
There are new options within the Document Management section where you can filter by the Template Suite your Legito Document was created from, and the Document Record Types.
It is now possible to merge PDF attachments together with documents created from your Template Suite. If the “Combine all PDFs into one file” option is checked, attachments are included in the merged PDF export.
To simplify testing of the REST API integration, you are now able to generate a JWT Token for testing. The generated token will expire after 1 hour.
It is now possible to use workflows for any Object you have in your workspace – similar to the way you assign a Workflow to a Template. Workflow is drafted in the Workflow Editor and set to be used for Object records.
After the Workflow is created, you can assign it to the Object itself.
There is new functionality for Bulk Replacement of Elements within Bulk Actions.
You can now mark all found elements/clauses for further group actions in the Template Editor. Click “Choose all” in the search tab.
There is a new feature to apply existing filters for the Grid and Kanban Widgets on your dashboard.
There are new options within the Document Management section where you can filter by the Template Suite your Legito Document was created from, and the Document Record Types.
It is now possible to merge PDF attachments together with documents created from your Template Suite. If the “Combine all PDFs into one file” option is checked, attachments are included in the merged PDF export.
To simplify testing of the REST API integration, you are now able to generate a JWT Token for testing. The generated token will expire after 1 hour.
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In addition to the existing text options, it is also possible to add options that will refer to texts added to different Elements, typically to Text Inputs, Dates, and Money Elements. Reference Options populate texts similarly to Link Elements.
To create a Reference Option:
In case such referred Elements are
In relation to the Reference Options described above, we adjusted conditions to Select and Question Elements as follows:
– Reference Options may be used in Conditions (identified by the System Name).
– Text operations such as “contains” or “does not contain” may be used in connection with Select/Question options, mainly because of the repeated Reference Options that have a different value in each instance.
From now on, you can determine if the Select Element will be exported to the final Word/PDF document based on a selected Option.
Each Select Option has a “No Export” property. If the No Export Option is Selected, the value of the Select will not be exported to Word or PDF.
Options in Select and Question Elements may be sorted in the Document Editor alphabetically (ascending or descending) in addition to the existing Custom sorting.
To change sorting in the Select Element, open Select, click on the Sort icon in the left upper corner, choose your preferred sorting option and click Confirm.
To change sorting in the Question Element, click Edit, open the Properties tab and choose your preferred sorting option.
Custom sorting will be always applied in the Template Editor to make Template maintenance more convenient.
We added the following keyboard shortcuts to the Template Editor:
– <Enter> will create a new clause and move all texts and Elements located on the right hand side of your cursor
– <Tab> will move the currently edited clause down one level (e.g., Paragraph to Subparagraph)
– <Tab+Shift> will move the currently edited clause up one level (e.g., Paragraph to Article)
– <Right/Left Arrow> will move you from one element to another in either direction
A new “Bulk Actions” tab will appear in the top menu if you mark multiple Clauses and/or Elements in your Template (Shift+left click). This tab contains some specific actions that cannot be executed in other tabs.
In addition to the existing text options, it is also possible to add options that will refer to texts added to different Elements, typically to Text Inputs, Dates, and Money Elements. Reference Options populate texts similarly to Link Elements.
To create a Reference Option:
In case such referred Elements are
In relation to the Reference Options described above, we adjusted conditions to Select and Question Elements as follows:
– Reference Options may be used in Conditions (identified by the System Name).
– Text operations such as “contains” or “does not contain” may be used in connection with Select/Question options, mainly because of the repeated Reference Options that have a different value in each instance.
From now on, you can determine if the Select Element will be exported to the final Word/PDF document based on a selected Option.
Each Select Option has a “No Export” property. If the No Export Option is Selected, the value of the Select will not be exported to Word or PDF.
Options in Select and Question Elements may be sorted in the Document Editor alphabetically (ascending or descending) in addition to the existing Custom sorting.
To change sorting in the Select Element, open Select, click on the Sort icon in the left upper corner, choose your preferred sorting option and click Confirm.
To change sorting in the Question Element, click Edit, open the Properties tab and choose your preferred sorting option.
Custom sorting will be always applied in the Template Editor to make Template maintenance more convenient.
We added the following keyboard shortcuts to the Template Editor:
– <Enter> will create a new clause and move all texts and Elements located on the right hand side of your cursor
– <Tab> will move the currently edited clause down one level (e.g., Paragraph to Subparagraph)
– <Tab+Shift> will move the currently edited clause up one level (e.g., Paragraph to Article)
– <Right/Left Arrow> will move you from one element to another in either direction
A new “Bulk Actions” tab will appear in the top menu if you mark multiple Clauses and/or Elements in your Template (Shift+left click). This tab contains some specific actions that cannot be executed in other tabs.
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The Widget counter gives our users a brief overview of overall performance and outstanding tasks.
The widget displays the Objects or Document Records based on your the selected Favorite (saved) filter(s).
Additionally, you can assign a color to each widget.
Like the other widgets, the Counter Widget is named to describe what the number represents.
There can be multiple widgets on the same Dashboard.
Clicking on the Counter will get you to the Document/Object Management area and show you the records represented by the number in the Widget. In the case of the Percentage and Fraction types of the Counter widget, only the used applied Filter is applied.
Tip: If you are an admin and intend to add the Counter widget to a public Dashboard where any user filter is included in the applied Favorite Filter, select “me” instead of a particular user, meaning the logged user in this context.
We added the possibility to choose a predefined period in addition to the custom date interval. It applies to all Date properties in Document and Object management.
It is possible to apply the Table of Contents element to all your automated Templates. A ToC element can be placed in any Clause level.
Conditions and Tags may be applied to the ToC elements the same way to any other element.
If multiple (conditioned) ToC elements are used in the same Template, make sure that only one ToC element is applied at a time in the final Legito Document. For the purposes of exporting to Word and PDF, only the first ToC will be used.
Favorite (saved) Filters previously known from the Document Management area are now also available for each Object Management area.
As usual, we will be rolling out the release over the next few days to Legito’s server locations.
The Widget counter gives our users a brief overview of overall performance and outstanding tasks.
The widget displays the Objects or Document Records based on your the selected Favorite (saved) filter(s).
Additionally, you can assign a color to each widget.
Like the other widgets, the Counter Widget is named to describe what the number represents.
There can be multiple widgets on the same Dashboard.
Clicking on the Counter will get you to the Document/Object Management area and show you the records represented by the number in the Widget. In the case of the Percentage and Fraction types of the Counter widget, only the used applied Filter is applied.
Tip: If you are an admin and intend to add the Counter widget to a public Dashboard where any user filter is included in the applied Favorite Filter, select “me” instead of a particular user, meaning the logged user in this context.
We added the possibility to choose a predefined period in addition to the custom date interval. It applies to all Date properties in Document and Object management.
It is possible to apply the Table of Contents element to all your automated Templates. A ToC element can be placed in any Clause level.
Conditions and Tags may be applied to the ToC elements the same way to any other element.
If multiple (conditioned) ToC elements are used in the same Template, make sure that only one ToC element is applied at a time in the final Legito Document. For the purposes of exporting to Word and PDF, only the first ToC will be used.
Favorite (saved) Filters previously known from the Document Management area are now also available for each Object Management area.
As usual, we will be rolling out the release over the next few days to Legito’s server locations.
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