Textbox Field Templates & Best Practices — Classic

Textbox Field Templates & Best Practices

Refer to the following list for templates of common textbox field configurations.

• [[SFLD:FieldName]] - a standard textbox

• [[SFLD:FieldName:M=10]] - a textbox with a 10 character limit

• [[SFLD:FieldName:W=100,H=15]] - a textbox with a custom size

• [[SFLD:FieldName:W=300,H=15,R=True]] - a required textbox with a custom size

• [[SFLD:FieldName:SL=2,W=100,H=15]] - a textbox that creates a signer at the second level

• [[SFLD:FieldName:SL=1,SO=2,W=100,H=15]] - a textbot that creates a second signer at the first level

Textbox Tag Best Practices

Use the following best practices when adding textbox tags to your documents:

• Use size parameters; the standard textbox field without specified size parameters tends to be too small for most cases.

• Use descriptive names for your fields; the field name is used in the document database output and can be difficult to recognize without a descriptive or unique name.

• Use a small font size (as small as 1 pt) when entering text in textbox fields to help maintain document formatting. This doesn't affect the size of the field itself when sent to the signer.

• Use white font for fields so they don't appear when the document is used outside of Sertifi.