[4.52] Create, sign and verify multiple visualisations (optional)

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MOXIS enables users to attach several identical signature images to a document thanks to a defined process. This article shows how to create these so-called multiple visualisations in MOXIS 4.52, sign a corresponding document and verify it.

1. Basic procedure for a multiple visualisation

In principle, you proceed in the same way when creating a document with multiple visualisation as when creating a regular job. You upload the corresponding document, define the iterations and place the placeholders. The only differnce is: Signers sign multiple signatures by executing the signing process only once.

XiTip 
From version 4.52, the display of signatures when verifying signatures has changed. You no longer need a seal, which makes the protocol appear tidier, clearer and more concise. However, the signature process itself remains the same. The next chapters show the basic signature process and a comparison of the multiple visualisation “old” vs. “new”.

2.1 Details for creating a job with multiple visualisations

As already mentioned, in the case of a multiple visualisation, you first create a job as usual. However, instead of one placeholder, you attach several to the document by repeatedly dragging the same placeholder onto the document. This means that several placeholders can be dragged onto the document for each signer.

For example: Three people can sign a document in three different places. To ensure that the signatories only have to carry out the signing process once, they are each assigned an individual placeholder, which is distributed three times across the document.

To visualise the process as simply as possible, we have reduced our example to one person signing a document three times.

Therefore, we will add three placeholders for a person's signature to our example below (see figure 1 [2]). After you have placed the desired number of placeholders, you will see the number of placeholders per iteration in the right-hand side menu (see figure 1 [1]). The order creation mask remains open in the left-hand side menu and you can send the order to the signature run.

2.2 Signing a document with multiple visualisations

The person(s) who are to sign the document ‘multiple times’ sign it or signs it as usual. This is because the recipient only has to carry out the signing process once, even if there are several visualisations and signatures on the document.

2.3 Multiple visualisation ‘old’ up to MOXIS version 4.52

The result of the multiple visualisation previously looked like this:

After signing the document, the validity of the document was displayed in Adobe Reader. In such a case, the personal qualified signature was the last signature to be applied (see figure 2). Additional cryptographic processes were carried out in the background for the visualisations applied before this on the basis of an installed signature handler for SES (e.g. company seal).

In the example shown in Figure 2, the signatory only had to sign once. The cryptographic process was always carried out on the entire document. This means that nine signatures were set.

2.4 Multiple visualisation ‘new’ as of MOXIS version 4.52

As of version 4.52, the result of the multiple visualisation is clearer and more concise, while legal certainty remains the same:

In our example (see figure 3), a three-page document is released for further processing by a simple signature. Each page must be initialled by this first iteration (see figure 3, ‘First Signature’, in green).

In the next step, the documents in the same job are sent to external recipients at the second iteration. They sign the documents with a qualified signature (see Figure 3, ‘Second Signature’, in lila) – on pages one, two and three respectively.

Finally, the documents are returned and, after review by internal decision-makers, they sign them with a qualified signature (see Figure 3, ‘Third signature’, in red). This is also done in the same iteration for all three pages.

Consequently, there are only three signatures (SES, external QSig and internal QSig), and the additional visualisations related to the respective signature are only attached as a figurative mark.