Approve and sign a drawing

Comiror separates two levels of control on a deliverable: simple approval, which decides between approved and rejected, and electronic signature, which brings evidentiary value compliant with the eIDAS regulation. One doesn’t require the other: you approve most files, and only have the ones that need it signed.

Approve or reject

From a file’s inspector, the Approve and Reject buttons set the corresponding status. They’re reserved for people with the approve permission. You decide once per version: the buttons are only available while the current version has no status, and a new version starts with no status.

This is exactly the action expected of a project owner: an external approver can approve or reject a drawing without being able to change anything else: no renaming, no moving, no deleting. The folder is at no risk.

Requesting a signature

The Request signature button starts the process. It is reserved to members of your organization, since the request is sent on its behalf. It is available once at least one version has been uploaded, whatever the file’s status, except Rejected: you don’t have something signed that you turned down. For a rejected file, first upload a corrected version, which starts with no status. Supported formats:

• PDF documents and DXF drawings;
• drawings made in Comiror, once published (see Make a drawing);
• 3D parts (STEP, IGES, STL, GLB).

A wizard guides you through:

1. Preparation: the request title, the signers (name and email address), the sending mode and, if needed, reminder and expiration options.
2. Placement & sending: for a PDF or a Comiror drawing, you position the signature area on the document, then send the request. For a 3D part or a DXF drawing, the wizard lets you frame the view (you rotate or zoom freely before capturing, over the whole view or over an area you draw), then it composes the signature document with a title block.

What happens next

Each signer gets access to a dedicated page where they review the document and apply their signature. As soon as the request completes, the file automatically switches to eIDAS signed status: you don’t have to set it yourself. The signature stays attached to the signed version as evidence, with its timestamp.

If a new version is uploaded while the request is in progress, the signature still applies to the version that was sent: it completes, but the file doesn’t switch to "eIDAS signed", since its current version wasn’t signed.

Declining to sign

A signer who disagrees can decline, from the same page, with the Decline button. They must give a reason: that is what lets the requester correct the document and send it back. The requester is notified, and reads the reason in the file’s signatures panel.

Declining stops the request. It sets no status on the file: the next step is yours to decide, usually a new version and a new request.