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title: "Programmatic E-Signature Workflows"
id: "programmatic-e-signature-workflows"
project: "MES User Manual"
url: "https://docs.sepasoft.com/articles/user-manual/programmatic-e-signature-workflows"
updated: 2026-07-31T14:57:57Z
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# Programmatic E\-Signature Workflows

**Sepasoft MES Module Suite**

## Programmatic E-Signature Workflows

The **system.mes.signature.authorization** scripting functions provides the essential tools to programmatically manage and enforce electronic signature workflows within the MES. These functions are a critical component for ensuring process integrity, adhering to compliance standards, and automating user-level approvals. By leveraging these functions, you can build robust, event-driven signature challenges directly into your industrial applications.

Below details the three core functions of the module, explaining their parameters, return values, and how they work in sequence to create a complete workflow for queuing, triggering, and monitoring e-signature requests.

### The Signature Authorization Workflow at a Glance

To effectively use the authorization scripting functions, it is crucial to understand the end-to-end workflow. These functions are not designed to be used in isolation but rather as part of a coordinated, three-step process: defining and queuing a request, triggering the user interaction, and optionally, querying the status of all pending requests.

The standard workflow follows this logical progression:

**Step 1:** **Queue Request**: [system.mes.signature.authorization.queueAuthRequest()](/articles/user-manual/system-mes-signature-authorization-queueauthrequest) - Define the signature requirements and callback actions.

**Step 2:** **Trigger Challenge**: [system.mes.signature.authorization.triggerAuthRequest()](/articles/user-manual/system-mes-signature-authorization-triggerauthrequest) - Present the signature challenge to a user in a specific session.

**Step 3:** **Get Pending Requests (Optional)**: [system.mes.signature.authorization.getPendingAuthRequests()](/articles/user-manual/system-mes-signature-authorization-getpendingauthrequests) - Retrieve a list of all outstanding requests.

### Scripting Function Reference

Together, these three functions—queueAuthRequest, triggerAuthRequest, and getPendingAuthRequests—provide a complete and robust programmatic framework for managing MES electronic signatures, from initial definition and workflow configuration through direct user interaction and final status monitoring.

* [system.mes.signature.authorization.queueAuthRequest()](/articles/user-manual/system-mes-signature-authorization-queueauthrequest)
* [system.mes.signature.authorization.triggerAuthRequest()](/articles/user-manual/system-mes-signature-authorization-triggerauthrequest)
* [system.mes.signature.authorization.getPendingAuthRequests()](/articles/user-manual/system-mes-signature-authorization-getpendingauthrequests)

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