participant-events-overview
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Participant Events: Overview and Purpose
In traditional, in-person signing scenarios, many contextual cues are naturally observed—participants entering the room, reviewing documents, or reacting to content. In digital signing environments, such context can be lost without deliberate logging.
What Are Participant Events?
At Zigned, we prioritize transparency and traceability. To that end, we log each step of a participant’s journey during the signing process and embed this information in the final signed document. The result is a detailed audit trail that can support dispute resolution or compliance checks.
Types of Events
We track most participant actions within the signing flow, including—but not limited to—entering the signing room, initiating or canceling a signature, scrolling through the document, and more.
However, since events are based on user interaction, we cannot log actions that never occurred (e.g. not opening an attachment or not scrolling a page). In these cases, the absence of a log entry may offer indirect insight.
Participant events are continuously improved and expanded. New events are typically introduced alongside feature updates and may vary by API version. Additionally, event labels or descriptions may change over time.
Read-Only Nature
Participant events are immutable by design. They serve as a factual log of user activity and cannot be edited or removed.