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Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3.5

Part Number B12161-02
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#WF_SIG_POLICY Attribute

In Oracle Applications, you can use a special message attribute with the internal name #WF_SIG_POLICY to require that a user's response to a notification be signed electronically. This electronic signature is analogous to a written signature. If you define a notification to require an electronic signature, users must respond to the notification from the Notification Details web page and enter the appropriate type of signature. Otherwise, the response will not be considered valid.

Oracle Workflow records the status of requested and submitted signatures in an evidence store, for both password-based signatures and certificate-based digital signatures. This signature information is purged when you purge obsolete workflow runtime data for the associated notifications. See: Items, Oracle Workflow API Reference.

The #WF_SIG_POLICY attribute must be either of type text or lookup. To require a password-based signature, set the value of the #WF_SIG_POLICY attribute to PSIG_ONLY. To require a certificate-based digital signature, set the value of the #WF_SIG_POLICY attribute to PKCS7X509_ONLY. If you set the value to DEFAULT, leave the value blank, or if you do not define a #WF_SIG_POLICY attribute for the message, Oracle Workflow performs the default response processing that does not require a signature.

You can either specify a constant value for the #WF_SIG_POLICY attribute, or specify an item type attribute as the value and include logic in your workflow process that dynamically determines at runtime whether a signature should be required or not and sets that item type attribute accordingly.

Note: Electronic signatures are currently supported only for the version of Oracle Workflow embedded in Oracle Applications.

See Also

To Define a Message Attribute

Setting Up for Electronic Signatures, Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide

Electronic Signatures, Oracle Workflow User's Guide

To View the Details of a Notification (for Oracle Applications), Oracle Workflow User's Guide

NtfSignRequirementsMet, Oracle Workflow API Reference

#WF_SIG_ID Attribute

In Oracle Applications, you can specify an electronic signature policy for notifications by defining the #WF_SIG_POLICY message attribute. If you specify a signature policy that requires an electronic signature to confirm a user's response to a notification, Oracle Workflow creates another message attribute named #WF_SIG_ID after the notification is signed. The #WF_SIG_ID attribute stores the identifier for the signature, which you can use to reference information about the signature later if necessary. This attribute is of type text and has a source of 'Respond'.

Note: Oracle Workflow automatically creates and sets the value of the #WF_SIG_ID attribute when a user submits a response to a notification with an electronic signature. You do not need to manually create or set this attribute.


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