To setup your Adobe Sign app in Cobalt for OAuth, you will need the following credentials from your Adobe Sign account:
  • Client ID
  • Client Secret
  • Scopes

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Pre-requisites

  1. Adobe Developer account. You can create one here.

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Required Settings

  • Mandatory Scopes
  1. user_read
  2. user_write
  3. user_login
If you haven’t already created an app in Adobe Sign, you’d need to create one.

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Creating an app in Adobe Sign

To create a Adobe Sign app and acquire the above mentioned credentials, please follow the steps mentioned below:
  1. Log in to your Adobe Sign account.
  2. Click on the Account option in the top nav bar, select Acrobat Sign API in the side menu and choose API Applications.
Navigation for App setup
  1. Click on + button in the top right > provide a Name and Display Name for your app > Choose Partner as Domain and click on Save.
  2. Go to your Apps catalog in Cobalt > Search for Adobe Sign > Settings > Use your credentials > Callback Url > Copy it.
  3. Select the app created, click on Configure OAuth for application and paste the Callback Url under Redirect URI field.
  4. Select the mandatory scopes in the Enabled scopes section, as provided in your Cobalt Adobe Sign settings page and click on the Save button.
Setting up Adobe Sign Developer app
  1. Click on View/Edit option for the app and copy the Application ID(Client ID) and Client Secrets Value(Client Secret).
Getting Credentials

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Configuring credentials in Cobalt

App settings page lets you configure the authentication settings for an OAuth 2.0 based application. For your customers to provide you authorization to access their data, they would first need to install your application. This page lets you set up your application credentials. Setting up application client credentials Provide the acquired Client ID and Client Secret under Settings of the app and save it.

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Configuring Scopes

Cobalt lets you configure what permissions to ask from your users while they install your application. The scopes can be added or removed from the App settings page, under Permissions & Scopes section. For some applications Cobalt sets mandatory scopes which cannot be removed. Additional scopes can be selected from the drop down. Cobalt also has the provision to add any custom scopes supported by the respective platform. OAuth Scopes Once the scopes has been added to the application in Cobalt, go to your Adobe Sign account and update the scopes as added on Cobalt. Select the OAuth App created for Cobalt > Click on Configure OAuth for Application > Add the scopes as added in Cobalt > Click on Save.
If you are facing scopes missing or invalid scope error. Make sure you are not passing any custom scope not supported by the platform. And, the scopes selected here are identical to the ones selected in the platform.

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Getting OAuth App Partner Certified

In Adobe, Partner applications will not have full access to other accounts until they have been Certified. To get your app certified, you need to complete few steps with the Adobe Team.
To get app certified and fill the required details, refer here.

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Actions and triggers

Once the above setup is completed, you can create orchestrations of your use-cases using Adobe Sign actions and triggers. Following are the set of Adobe Sign actions and triggers supported by Cobalt.