Looking for best approach for signature button on xpage - xpages

Question

I need a simple button whereby a user clicks to sign off on a document. A single signer per document, but when they click it, it puts their name and the date in two visible fields, and changes the status field.
What is the best approach for this? This is probably drop-dead simple but for some reason I cannot get it working.
They have been forced to log in by this time.
Thanks in advance.
Matt

Answer 1

Try the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xp:view xmlns:xp="http://www.ibm.com/xsp/core">
<xp:this.data>
<xp:dominoDocument var="document1" formName="test"></xp:dominoDocument>
</xp:this.data>
<xp:panel id="panelMain">
<xp:table>
<xp:tr>
<xp:td colspan="2">
<xp:label value="Main Form" id="label1"></xp:label>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
<xp:tr>
<xp:td style="width:100.0px">
<xp:label value="Now" id="label2"></xp:label>
</xp:td>
<xp:td>
<xp:text escape="true" id="computedField1" value="${javascript:return #Now();}">
<xp:this.converter>
<xp:convertDateTime type="both"></xp:convertDateTime>
</xp:this.converter>
</xp:text>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
</xp:table>
</xp:panel>
<xp:panel id="panelSignature" style="background-color:rgb(192,192,192)">
<xp:button value="I Agree" id="button1">
<xp:eventHandler event="onclick" submit="true" refreshMode="partial" refreshId="SignatureTable">
<xp:this.action><![CDATA[#{javascript:
document1.replaceItemValue("SignedDate",#Now());
document1.replaceItemValue("SignedBy",userBean.getDisplayName());}]]></xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>
<xp:table id="SignatureTable">
<xp:tr>
<xp:td colspan="2">
<xp:label value="SignatureTable" id="label3"></xp:label>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
<xp:tr>
<xp:td style="width:100.0px">
<xp:label value="SignedBy" id="label6"></xp:label>
</xp:td>
<xp:td>
<xp:inputText id="computedField4" value="#{document1.SignedBy}" readonly="true"></xp:inputText>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
<xp:tr>
<xp:td style="width:100.0px">
<xp:label value="SignedDate" id="label5"></xp:label>
</xp:td>
<xp:td>
<xp:inputText id="computedField3" value="#{document1.SignedDate}" readonly="true">
<xp:this.converter>
<xp:convertDateTime type="both"></xp:convertDateTime>
</xp:this.converter>
</xp:inputText>
</xp:td>
</xp:tr>
</xp:table>
</xp:panel>
</xp:view>

Answer 2

Judging by this "They have been forced to log in by this time." your problem is in your ACL. Seems, you allow anonymous reading of the document, but in the moment you want to save it, ACL does not allow anonymous users to do that, so Domino asks for their identity.
Set anonymous access to No access level.

Answer 3

Here's a button, but if the user is not logged in and does not have anonymous edit access, then a login dialog will appear. For a signing function, I assume the user must be logged in to sign. document1 is the Xpage data document to be signed.
<xp:button
value="Sign"
id="button1"
styleClass="btn btn-primary">
<xp:eventHandler
event="onclick"
submit="true"
refreshMode="complete">
<xp:this.action>
<xp:executeScript>
<xp:this.script><![CDATA[#{javascript:
document1.appendItemValue("SignerName", session.getEffectiveUsername();
document1.document1("SignedDate", session.createDateTime(#Now()));
document1.save();
}]]></xp:this.script>
</xp:executeScript>
</xp:this.action>
</xp:eventHandler>
</xp:button>
If you need to update a document without logging in, then in the button, you will have to get the doc with sessionAsSigner and then update.