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Legacy User
February 11, 2019
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How do I change the signing order after sending it to the recipients?

  • February 11, 2019
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How do I change the signing order after sending it to the recipients?
Best answer by Community Expert

If no action has been taken, you can use the "Correct" option on the envelope to make changes to the envelope. Here is a DocuSign article regarding the Correct feature, routing order is an item that can be changed.

https://support.docusign.com/en/guides/ndse-user-guide-correct-documents

Remember if the Recipient(s) have already taken action, such as Signing, it may restrict you from performing some Correct actions.

6 replies

Docusign Employee
February 11, 2019

If no action has been taken, you can use the "Correct" option on the envelope to make changes to the envelope. Here is a DocuSign article regarding the Correct feature, routing order is an item that can be changed.

https://support.docusign.com/en/guides/ndse-user-guide-correct-documents

Remember if the Recipient(s) have already taken action, such as Signing, it may restrict you from performing some Correct actions.

Legacy User
February 11, 2019

Thanks.

Legacy User
August 8, 2021

Is viewing it considered to be an action?

Legacy User
August 9, 2021

​ Depends on the Recipient Type assigned to the Recipient. In a scenario where a Recipient is set to "Needs to View" then viewing the envelope would complete the action and would disallow replacement or changes to the document. If the Recipient was set to "Needs to Sign" and they viewed the envelope but did not finish actions and selected "Finish Later" then the outcome would not be the same, as they did not complete all the required actions.

Legacy User
October 13, 2022

Can you please confirm that i understand it correctly that if people have signed, you cannot change (remove) the signing order?

Legacy User
October 13, 2022

The Signing Order can be changed for any Recipients who have not yet taken action but not for those who have already taken action such as Signing. So if you have a single envelope sent to 10 Recipients each Recipient with a Signing Order value that is unique.....1....2...3.....4 etc, and if that envelope was completed by the first 5 Recipients, then you still could correct the envelope and change the Signing Order or remove the Recipients who were listed as 6,7,8,9,and 10 but you cannot modify the Recipients who already completed actions who were set as 1,2,3,4 and 5.