Docusign Text Tabs in template not populating - node.js

Question

I am using docusign (production account) to allow users to sign documents. I am trying to add data to textTabs that I create through the docusign dashboard. So say if I add a text box and call it nbShares, the below code does not populate the box. All the boxes I add in the dashboard such as signature, text, checkboxes etc are not shown in the generated link. I get no API errors either. I also tried to create customFields, and pass data to them as textTab - however this did not work either.
I think I may misunderstand the flow, I add all recipients and signers programatically - is that why I cant see the placeholders/buttons I add? I have also allowed collaboration in the fields I add, made them mandatory - yet they still do not appear.
Would really appreciate some help on this. This is my envelope definition - Im using the node sdk along with ts types.
const makeEnvelopeDefinition = async (
templateName: string,
user: User,
dealId?: string,
): Promise<EnvelopeDefinition> => {
const personToSign: Signer = {
email: user.email,
name: user.name,
roleName: 'Signer',
// Should this work?
tabs: {
textTabs: [
{ tabLabel: 'nbShares', value: '1000' },
],
},
clientUserId: DOCUSIGN_CLIENT_USER_ID,
recipientId: '1',
}
const compositeTemplate: CompositeTemplate = {
serverTemplates: [
{ sequence: '1', templateId: 'remote-template-id' },
],
inlineTemplates: [
{
sequence: '1',
recipients: {
signers: [personToSign],
certifiedDeliveries: [
{
email: 'someemail#something.com',
recipientId: '77',
name: 'Receipt of transaction',
},
{
email: user.email,
recipientId: '771',
name: user.name,
},
],
},
},
],
}
// create the envelope definition
const envelope: EnvelopeDefinition = {
emailSubject: 'Review signed document',
status: 'sent',
compositeTemplates: [compositeTemplate],
}
return envelope
}

Answer 1

For me the solution was changing my signer to this
const personToSign: Signer = {
email: user.email,
name: user.name,
clientUserId: await getDocusignConfig().DOCUSIGN_CLIENT_USER_ID,
recipientId: '1',
routingOrder: '1', // Was missing this
roleName: 'Signer', // Must match signer specified on docusign dashboard
tabs: {
textTabs: [
{
xPosition: '150',
yPosition: '200',
name: 'First Name',
tabLabel: 'name', // Must match the dataLabel name specified on docusign
value: 'Test',
},
],
},
}
And enabling this setting 'When an envelope is sent, write the initial value of the field for all recipients' in 'Signing Settings' on docusign.