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Sheree
Sheree

Reputation: 21

DocuSign Status Code TAB_REFERS_TO_DOCUMENT_NO_TABS_ALLOWED?

I am currently using the REST api to create an envelope containing a document and a template which I have already set up in Docusign. I get the following error on the web request and can't find this error on the status code/error list provided by DocuSign to try debug the issue. Their support person suggests I ask here..

TAB_REFERS_TO_DOCUMENT_NO_TABS_ALLOWED -- The Tab refers to a document that does not allow tabs.

Has anyone experienced this?

Edit:

The issue appears to be related to the document section. 

{
    "emailBlurb":"Test Email Body",
    "emailSubject": "Test Email Subject",
    "status" : "sent",
    "compositeTemplates": [
    {
        "serverTemplates": [
        {
            "sequence" : 1,
            "templateId": "b1eccee3-9c00-4cb2-8d30-0400d51dcfe0"
        }],
        "inlineTemplates": [
        {
            "sequence" : 2,
            "recipients": {
                "signers" : [{
                    "email": "[email protected]",
                    "name": "usera",
                    "recipientId": "1",
                    "roleName": "Producer"
                }]
            }
        }],
        "document": {
            "documentId": 1,
            "name": "Test.docx",
           "documentBase64":"[bytesremoved]",
           "fileExtension":"docx"
        }
    }]
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 355

Answers (1)

Larry K
Larry K

Reputation: 49104

So you have a template on the server, with a document as part of the template?

But you want the envelope to use a different document with the template, yes?

It is my understanding that the documentId in the document section of the composite template must match the documentId used in the template if you want the document to be substituted for the template's document.

So check the definition of the template. Did you create the template programmatically or did you use the web browser DocuSign app? If the latter, then note that the first document in a template is not always given an id of 1.

Upvotes: 1

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