ColdFusion Digital Signature Pad Integration

[apocalipsis19]

Hello Community!

As part of a new project that we are taking on, we are discussing the integration of a signature pad so patients can sign "sign-in forms" and their signature will then be stored in a database. I honestly don't even know where to start. I found some articles on the web and they are out of date. I would appreciate any ideas, or resources, or a direction to get this started. It sounds simple: store a digital signature into a patient's file but I have never done it before.

Thanks!

Apocalipsis!

[Owainnorth]

It all hinges upon what integration the actual pad has with a computer.

You can make a CF page where you read a file from disk and file it to a database, that's a walk in the park; owever it's getting that image into CF in the first place. Having never used them, I can only guess but I'd assume they will come with some kind of software. That's the critical bit to establish really; if it just writes a file to disk then that's easy enough, if it can post to a website then even better.

I'd look into how the hardware integrates with a computer before anything.

O.

[Dave Watts]

This isn't really a CF issue. It's a client-side issue. You'll need a client-side solution that can capture the signature, then upload that file along with the additional form data. I've seen some nice Flash/Flex implementations that did this. While looking for that, I stumbled across this:

http://rightsignature.com/

It's not immediately obvious to me how they're doing this, but it looks like a JavaScript-only solution. They also offer this as a service, so you might be able to integrated it into your application. I don't know how much it costs, though.

Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

http://www.figleaf.com/

http://training.figleaf.com/

Read this before you post:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/607238