DocuSign populate template

Allows the user to populate fields and values of a template stored in DocuSign. The user has the option to send the completed template to the recipients or save it as a draft.

Note: This is an external action and may execute on servers running outside your data center Centralized locations used to house servers used by Nintex for remote storage, processing, or distribution of data. Nintex has a number of regional data centers available for Nintex for Office 365. For information about Nintex data centers and where your data center is located, contact your Nintex account or territory manager. region. Before implementing, consider performance and regional concerns where digital boundaries are an issue. For more information, see In-tenant and external actions.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
Authorizing user

Specify an email address to receive the authorization request for the action. External email addresses can be used.

Template name

Specify the name of a template in DocuSign to populate.

The template name can be obtained from Template Summary of the selected template in DocuSign.

Envelope action

Select one of the following items.

  • Save As Draft: Saves the populated template as an envelope with a draft status.

    The completed draft can be sent to the recipients by using DocuSign send envelope.

  • Send Envelope: Sends the created envelope directly to the recipient.
Recipient role

Specify the role of the recipient. Required if any of the following fields are specified: Recipient email, Recipient name, Email subject, Email message, or Field names.

The role must be pre-configured in the template.

Recipient email

Specify a recipient’s email address to receive the document to be signed. Maximum 100 characters.

Leave blank to use the recipient email specified in the template.

Recipient name

Specify the recipient’s name corresponding to the above Recipient email. Maximum 100 characters.

Leave blank to use the recipient name specified in the template.

Email subject

Specify the email subject to the recipient. This value overwrites the email subject in the template. Maximum 100 characters.

Leave blank to use the email subject specified in the template.

Email message

Specify the email message to the recipient. This will overwrite the email message in the template. Maximum 10000 characters.

Leave blank to use the email message specified in the template.

Field names

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the field names to populate. The field name refers to the label of the tag that existed in the template.

Only tags for roles with the Sign action or the Sign in Person action can be updated.

Field values

Specify a collection or dictionary variable to store the corresponding values for the field names specified in Field names. This setting overwrites the values in the template.

Envelope ID

Specify a text variable to store the ID of the draft envelope or the ID of the envelope that was sent to the recipient.

For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.