Configuring Electronic Signatures For Tasks

You can configure route tasks to require electronic signatures and to include the responsible role for the task. To meet FDA guidelines, these properties should all be set to true.

Important: This app uses electronic signatures to provide an audit trail for certain approvals, as is often required in highly-regulated industries. You cannot delete or modify the personal data contained in the electronic signatures. You should carefully review your use cases associated with electronic signatures to ensure that the specific business requirements associated with them are being met, while still adhering to good personal data management practices.

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Configuring Properties
  1. Create or open the text file to contain customized properties for exmSystem.properties. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.
  2. To require the user to enter a password when approving a route task, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object:

      emxFramework.Routes.EnableFDA

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • true Users must enter a password to approve a route task.
      • false Users do not need to enter a password.

  3. To require users to also enter their names when the above property is true, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object:

      emxFramework.Routes.ShowUserNameForFDA

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • true Users must enter their names to approve a route task.
      • false Users do not need to enter their names.

  4. To display and track the Responsible Role for a task, follow these steps:
    1. Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object:

      emxFramework.Routes.ResponsibleRoleForSignatureMeaning.Preserve

    2. Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements:

      • true Adds a Responsible Role field to a task when the task is assigned to a role instead of a specific user. You must also set emxFramework.Routes.EnableFDA to true.
      • false The Responsible Role field is not shown.

  5. When finished updating the text file with all properties you want to modify, including the ones shown here, use the text file to modify the emxSystem.properties page object. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.