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Why can't I do this in Signing?

Find the reason behind a greyed-out button or a message in Signing, and what to do next.

Signing tells you why an action is unavailable, and links to the fix. This article lists the common reasons in one place.

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Why

What to do

See Signing

You do not have access to Signing on this matter.

Ask a Matter Admin to check your permissions. See Which Signing do I have?

Add a document to a whole documents pack

The document is not in Execution, is already Signed, or is already in the pack.

Change its state, or choose a different document.

Add a document to a signature pages pack

The signer is not tagged on the document (No signature pages tagged for [name]).

Click Tag signature pages and tag the signer.

Send through DocuSign, or open a pack in DocuSign

A recipient is not listed, has no email address, an entity has no named signatory, or a signatory is still unknown.

Follow the link beside each problem. See Sending a signer pack.

See any DocuSign option

You are not a member of the organisation that hosts the matter, or you do not have access to a DocuSign account.

Ask someone from the hosting organisation to send the pack. See How Legatics and DocuSign work together.

Change a document's state

The document is in a pack.

Remove it from the pack or delete the pack. If the pack has been sent, void it.

Change a document's signing method

The document is in a pack.

Remove it from the pack or delete the pack.

Upload a new version, add or remove parties and signatories, or tag pages

The document is Signed.

Upload the amended document as a new document and send it for signing again.

Tag signature pages on a file

The file is over 100 MB, or the document is Signed.

Use a smaller file.

Change a pack's type or signer

These are fixed when you create the pack.

Delete the pack while it is in Draft and create it again.

Rename a pack

A DocuSign draft has been created for it.

Delete the pack while it is in Draft and create a new one with the name you want.

Give a pack a name

Another pack in the matter already has that name.

Choose a different name.

Collate a document

A signatory is not yet Signed, or DocuSign pages have not arrived or been matched.

Delete an uploaded signed page

The page has been collated into a document.

You cannot delete it.

Unmatch or delete a page marked Signed via DocuSign

Legatics matched it automatically.

You cannot.

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