eSign Word Processing document with Metadata signature Leave feedback

GroupDocs.Signature provides WordProcessingMetadataSignature class to specify different Metadata signature objects for MetadataSignOptions instance to sign Word Processing document files. Word Processing document metadata is hidden attributes, some of them are visible only over viewing standard document properties like Author, Creation Date, Producer, Entry, Keywords etc.
Word Processing document metadata contains pair of Name and Value, Name should be unique within the document.
Word Processing document metadata could keep big amount of data that allows provides ability to keep serialized custom objects with additional encryption in there.

Here are the steps to add metadata signatures into Word Processing document with GroupDocs.Signature:

• Create new instance of Signature class and pass source document path as a constructor parameter.
• Instantiate the MetadataSignOptions object according to your requirements.
• Instantiate one or severalWordProcessingMetadataSignature objects and add them into MetadataSignOptions to metadata signatures collection (Signatures) via Add or AddRange method.
• Call Sign method of Signature class instance and pass MetadataSignOptions to it.

This example shows how to sign Word Processing document with Metadata e-signature.

using (Signature signature = new Signature("sample.docx"))
{
    MetadataSignOptions options = new MetadataSignOptions();

    // Create few WordProcessing Metadata signatures
    WordProcessingMetadataSignature[] signatures = new WordProcessingMetadataSignature[]
    {
        new WordProcessingMetadataSignature("Author", "Mr.Scherlock Holmes"),
        new WordProcessingMetadataSignature("DateCreated", DateTime.Now),
        new WordProcessingMetadataSignature("DocumentId", 123456),
        new WordProcessingMetadataSignature("SignatureId", 123.456M)
    };
    options.Signatures.AddRange(signatures);
  
    // add these signatures to options
    options.Signatures.AddRange(signatures);
    signature.Sign("SampleSigned.docx", options);
}

To learn more about document eSign features, please refer to the advanced usage section.

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Signature for .NET examples, plugins, and showcase
• GroupDocs.Signature for Java examples, plugins, and showcase
• Document Signature for .NET MVC UI Example
• Document Signature for .NET App WebForms UI Example
• Document Signature for Java App Dropwizard UI Example
• Document Signature for Java Spring UI Example

Along with the full-featured .NET library, we provide simple but powerful free online apps.

To sign PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents you can use the online apps from the GroupDocs.Signature App Product Family.