Retrieving information from a signed document DocuSign API

Question

I am new to DocuSign, have made the tutorials and read through the DocuSign API documentation. I am developing in Java, and have successfully achieved to send documents for sign

Answer 1

In DocuSign if you have common tabs that you use for your recipients in your requests then you can use the Custom Fields to create them once then re-use them in your subsequent requests. However, in general if you want to have editable fields where you will gather info from your recipients then you can use the Text field and un-check read-only. If setting through the API it would look like this:

"textTabs": [
    {
      "tabLabel": "NameOfTheTab",
      "value": "12345"
    }

You can read more about using these fields through the Features section of the DocuSign Developer Center.

With regards to your second question of how to retrieve the data that your recipients fill out, remember that tabs are always specific to recipients (as opposed to the documents themselves) so take a look at the Get Tab Information for Recipient API call.

Example:

GET https://{server}/restapi/{apiVersion}/accounts/{accountId}/envelopes/{envelopeId}/recipients/{recipientId}/tabs