DocuSign Envelope creation failed containing PDF fields transformation - docusignapi

Question

This is my JSON code so far:
{
"status": "sent",
"emailSubject": "This is an api Demo Doc, sent for signature",
"recipients": {
"carbonCopies": [
{
"email": "nila#gmail.com",
"name": "Nilashree",
"recipientId": "2"
}
],
"signers": [
{
"email": "{{signer1Email}}",
"name": "Nilashree Nandkumar shirodkar",
"recipientId": "1"
}
]
},
"compositeTemplates": [
{
"inlineTemplates": [
{
"sequence": "1",
"recipients": {
"signers": [
{
"email": "nshiro2#students.towson.edu",
"name": "Nila Joseph",
"recipientId": "1",
"defaultRecipient": "true"
}
]
}
}
],
"documents": {
"documentId": "1",
"name": "application_form.pdf",
"transformPdfFields": "true",
"documentBase64": "{{}}"
}
}
]
}
But I am getting the following error:
"errorCode": "ENVELOPE_IS_INCOMPLETE",
"message": "The Envelope is not Complete. A Complete Envelope Requires Documents, Recipients, Tabs, and a Subject Line."
Can anyone please let me know what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Why are you using a composite template? Perhaps you are planning towards a later, more complicated envelope definition.
Your mistake is that each composite template can optionally contain only one document. The field name is document, not documents.
Instead of
"documents": {
"documentId": "1",
"name": "application_form.pdf",
"transformPdfFields": "true",
"documentBase64": "{{}}"
}
use
"document": {
"documentId": "1",
"name": "application_form.pdf",
"transformPdfFields": "true",
"documentBase64": "{{}}"
}
Also, I don't believe there's a need for the recipients outside of the composite templates structure. I'm not 100% sure about this issue though.