ViewSign Desktop Advanced Guide Options Menu

Options Menu

By choosing File > Options the following window will appear with 14 configuration sections available.

After any change in user options, the "Apply" button is enabled and you will need to click it and then click OK to confirm the changes. Options are saved in an .ini file in the path:

C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Roaming\Namirial\ViewSign Desktop 1\settings.ini 

where [USER] represents the current Windows user profile. There isn't a function that allows you to automatically replicate the options for all of the available user profiles on your PC.

Changing one or more options across the various functions available provides a customized software configuration for your specific needs, saved in your user profile on the PC.

General Application

The application’s General section consists of three groups of options:

• User Interface Options
• Opening Dossiers
• SDK Info

User Interface Options

This group allows you to enable the history of saved files, as well as the overall theme and language settings of the application.

Latest dossier used list:

When selected this check box allows you to store a list of the last "N" opened dossiers. The number "N" is a user defined number that is entered in the Next box by the user. In the example it is set to 100.

Clear History dossier:

This button deletes all the items described in the preceding paragraph.

Color scheme:

Allows you to customize the combination of menu color and the initial screen of the program. Three options are available: Light gray, White, Dark gray.

Language:

Sets the language of the menu items, labels, buttons, and user messages.

Opening Dossiers

This group specifies the program's startup options.

Open dossier in the same window:

ViewSign Desktop cannot run more than one session/instance at a time. You must close an existing session in order to start a new instance of the application.

Reopen the last open dossier at program startup:

This checkbox, if checked, allows you to re-open the last file saved in your history list when you start the program.

SDK Info

In this group you can read the SDK version of signature. The differences between the various versions can be read in the "ChangeLog" section of online help.

With this button user can delete any saved user settings and restore the software default values.

Device Manager

The Device Management section allows you to specify which device to use for graphometric signing and other document signing options.

Graphometric Signature Devices

The signing devices are divided into three main categories: eSignature Pads, Tablet PC’s with integrated digitizers and external tablets that can also be used as an External Monitor (Signature Display).

Signature Pad

If you choose this option, the signature will be captured and displayed on a Signature Pad connected to a USB port on your PC. These tablets aren't additional monitor so you cannot see the entire document in the tablet display, but only the signature area. The checkbox "Enable document control on external digitizer" will show a series of buttons on the signature pad that allow browsing the document directly from the signature pad.

Table PC (with integrated digitizer)

This option applies to all Tablet PC devices with built-in digitizer that have been certified by Namirial SPA. The list of these devices is available here. If you use ViewSign Desktop with one of these tablets you can choose this option, so the capture window of signature will be shown directly on the Tablet PC screen.

External Monitor (Signature Display)

You can specify from many certified devices that can be used as a combination external monitor and signature capture device.

View Document in the Primary Monitor or Table Signature

When the checkbox is enabled this option allows you to preview the document directly on the connected Signature Display. In the absence of a suitable signature capture device you could also specify a secondary monitor.

Project Secondary Monitor on the Primary Monitor

When enabled this option allows you to see what is shown in the second monitor or in the configured signature tablet simultaneously on the main monitor. The preview of the second monitor is also displayed when you choose the "edit document on secondary monitor" or "fill the document on secondary monitor" or during a signing session.

Options "Sign all"

These options are available when you run a signature process using a signature template.

Run single signature

If selected forces the user to select one single field from the document. After selecting with a single click, signature process starts.

Run sequentially all the signatures

If selected allows you to sign in sequence all signature areas and signature fields without selecting. In the case of a document with many signature fields to be signed, if the user does not need to individually select the fields, then user can choose this option in order to have a unique signature process.

Run the signatures individually or sequentially

If selected, this mode of signing leaves the user free to select a single field to sign, or to sign all the fields into a single signature flow.

View Document in the Primary Monitor Before the Signing

If you select this option allows you to preview your document before starting a signature process.

View Document in the Primary Monitor After the Signing

If selected this option enables you to view the signed document after the signature process end. This allows the user to review and confirm the signatures affixed, or repeat them if necessary.

Lock Mouse in the Main Monitor

Selecting this option while using an External Monitor/Signature Display will lock the mouse cursor on the primary monitor while the pen is signing on the Signature Display.

Enable Mouse Control During the Signing

This group of options allows you to manage mouse control and cursor locking during signature capture when you use a Signature Display, or when there are at least two monitors connected to the same PC.

• Ignore, no blocking.
• Block on the main monitor, mouse cursor is blocked during the signature process.
• Duplicate mouse on primary monitor and Signature Display. Unlock the mouse and allows mouse cursor to be controlled either by the PC mouse or the pen on the Signature Display.

You can display photos, looping as digital signage, a screensaver or advertisement on the secondary screen when using a multiple monitor configuration or when connected to an external device or Signature Display.

The option "Automatically detect" device allows the automatic detection of the output device for the slideshow/signage/advertising images. If not specified, you can force the presentation onto a device selected in "Show images into device" choice. ViewSign Desktop reads images from the specified folder "images folder" every n seconds, and displays the images sequentially from the “images folder”. The frequency can be specified in "Show image every (sec)".