Text Tags
To send a document from your application for signature, you need to define the signature and other Foxit fields in the documents, and who is allowed to fill in the data. Foxit supports simple Text Tags.
A Text Tag is a simple text block within your PDF document which defines the field type, the party who is responsible for it, and other field specific options.
When you apply Text Tags to the document, Foxit does not remove or replace the Text Tags text. You can hide codified Text Tags by using the same font color as the background of the document. So the Text Tags can be used by Foxit processes and it will not be visible on the document.
1. Field Type: One of 'textfield', 'signfield', 'initialfield', 'datefield', 'checkboxfield' or short notations. Additional field types are listed on page 2.
2. Party Number: the sequence number of the recipient party from the parties list which will be responsible for filling this field.
3. Required/Optional Field: 'y' makes the field mandatory to be filled before signing while 'n' makes it optional.
4. Field Name: Optional. Assign a name to this field. Assigning names to fields is a good practice for better productivity as named fields are downloaded in the document form data report. All same named fields in a document will automatically take up the value typed once in any one of those fields. If you do not want the same information populated in multiple fields, make sure to utilize unique names for each of the key tags.
Please note: DO NOT include any spaces in the name of field (or anywhere else in the Text Tag) as it will then not recognize that word as a proper Text Tag syntax. Instead, use an underscore which will then be replaced with a space in the final Foxit field.
5. Underscores: Optional. A way to increase the field's width.
There are other options that you can add before underscores for various other properties as follows: