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Create Document Session for Embedded Sign

Creates a document session for a recipient to view and sign a document.

📘 How to create an Embedded Sign session For more information on how to create an Embedded Sign session, see the Embedded Signing documentation.

post/public/v1/documents/{id}/session

Path parameters

idstring required

Document ID

Request body

recipientstring required

Email address of the person who will receive access to the document.

lifetimenumber

The duration in seconds for which the document link will remain valid. The link will expire and become inaccessible after this time period. For security, we recommend setting the lifetime to less than one year (e.g., "lifetime": 31535999). If not specified, the default value is 1 hour (3600 seconds).

Example request

{
  "recipient": "josh@example.com",
  "lifetime": 900
}

Response

OK

idstring

The session ID.

expires_atstring

The date and time when the session will expire.

Example response

{
  "id": "QYCPtavst3DqqBK72ZRtbF",
  "expires_at": "2017-08-29T22:18:44.315Z"
}