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Placeholders and variables

signoSign/2 provides various placeholders and variables that can be used at various points, e.g. when saving, archiving or sending a document.

The following table contains an overview of all available placeholders:

General placeholders and variables

The following general placeholders and variables are available.

Placeholder

Description

Note

%sigFieldName%

Signature field name

Only available for the settings “save signatures as images” and “save biometric data to files.”

%sigImage%

Path of the image of the signature

Only available with the “save signatures as images” setting.

%bioFile%

Path of the file containing the biometric data

Only available with the “save biometric data to files” setting.

%orgFileName%

Original file name

%title%

Document title

%numSignatures%

Number of signatures

%user%

Windows login name

%USER%

Windows login name in capital letters

%machine%

Machine name

%guid%

Globally Unique Identifier (GUID)

%ip%

IP address

%mac%

MAC address

%dateShort%

Current date, short format (29.09.2019)

%dateLong%

Current date, long format (Thursday, August 29, 2019)

%timeShort%

Current time, short format (09:49)

%timeLong%

Current time, long format (09:49:40)

%signoCounter%

Counter reading of the document type.

Not available everywhere.

%dateFileName%

Current date, short format (2019-08-29)

Only available in archive service, index file and resubmission.

%timeFileNameShort%

Current time, short format (09.49.40)

Only available in archive service, index file and resubmission.

%timeFileNameLong%

Current time, long format (09.49.40.6692)

Only available in archive service, index file and resubmission.

%archiveFile%

Archive file

Only available for the default values for e-mail messages and for additional actions in archiving.

%indexFile%

Index file

Only available for additional actions in archiving.

%archiveName%

Name of the archive file

Only available for index files.

%randomX%

Random number

The “X” must be replaced by an integer indicating the number of digits in the random number. “%random4%” results in 1896, for example

%dateTimeX%

Current timestamp, user-defined format

The “X” must be replaced by the desired format, e.g. %dateTimedd.MM.yyyy% for 12.04.1896

%docTypeName%

Name of the document type

%domainuser%

User name in the domain

Only available when using a domain.

The domain user can only be determined if there is an active connection to the domain. The software saves the last known name for each user. However, there must have been a connection to the domain at some point.

%docTypeIndexFile%

Content of the document type index file

Only available within the main index file.

Custom placeholders

Placeholders

Description

Note

%var1%

to

%var30%

Individual placeholders that were read out via the document type.

In addition to the general placeholders, you can use the “placeholders” area to dynamically extract and use your own placeholders from a document.

signoSign/Universal

The following placeholders are available when using signoSign/Universal.

Placeholders

Description

Note

%sharingCaseUrl%

Url for the shared document

Only available for signoSign/Universal.

%sharingCasePw%

Password for access to the shared document

Only available for signoSign/Universal.

%sharingCaseQr%

QR code for the shared document

Only available for signoSign/Universal.

Resubmission

The following placeholders are available when using the resubmission.

Placeholders

Description

Note

%collectionName%

Name of the collection used (resubmission)

%lastUsedCollection%

Last used collection (resubmission)

Only available in the resubmission settings within the document type.

DATEVconnect

The following placeholders are available for selection when using the DATEVconnect plug-in.

Placeholder

Description

Note

%datevContacts%

Opens the selection of contacts from DATEV that belong to the open document.

Only available in the e-mail settings when using the DATEVconnect plug-in.

%datevClientNum%

DATEV client number that the document belongs to.

Only available when using the DATEVconnect plug-in.

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