文件签名“WITNESS_FOR_SIGNER_ID_INVALID”

Question

I have two recipients in my template that need to be witnessed. My requirement is to, keep the second recipient optional. That means I want to specify one or two recipients. I could create the envelope without the optional recipient, if the recipients don't need to be witnessed. As soon as I change the template so that they require a witness, I receive this error unless both are specified,

One or more errors occurred. (Error calling CreateEnvelope: {"errorCode":"WITNESS_FOR_SIGNER_ID_INVALID","message":"The witness host signer Id is not valid. Witness recipient id = 4"})

I'm using CompositeTemplates to create the template.

 EnvelopeDefinition env = new EnvelopeDefinition { CompositeTemplates = compositeTemplates, Status = "created" }; var apiClient1 = new ApiClient(acct.BaseUri + "/restapi"); apiClient1.Configuration.DefaultHeader.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken.access_token); EnvelopesApi envelopesApi = new EnvelopesApi(apiClient1); EnvelopeSummary results = envelopesApi.CreateEnvelope(acct.AccountId, env, new EnvelopesApi.CreateEnvelopeOptions { mergeRolesOnDraft= "true"});

So how can I create envelope with optional recipients that need to be witnessed?

Answer 1

If the template includes a recipient that is not optional, then when you create an envelope from this template - you must include that recipient.

To support your scenario, remove the witness recipient from the template. You can then use your code to add the witness when you want it