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This is the list, which previews all your entries, which you can do in this menu with their respective colours, text formats and icons for the different options (PDF only, signature set only, PDF + signature set) to make them easily recognizable. All your entries will later be visible in the sidebar under the first tab named "Documents". This tab will hold all your entries, no matter if they are only single files, whole folders or the list of the most recently used files in each category.

By default, there are already two entries:

• a group title with grey background, which is named "Most recently used"
• a group with the type "Recently Used PDF" without an own name (Only a dash as name means this entry will have no leading name header. This means in consequence that a single-file entry will not be visible because they are always shown with their name! If a list entry's name is only a dash, this list is always shown expanded.) This group will always show the last used PDFs (by default up to a maximum of 32 files, but this value can be changed in the lower right of this menu).

Please enter a name for your new entry here. Please be aware, that this name field will behave different for either single-entries or list-entries, which consist of multiple files (either because you are showing a whole folder or the most recently used files). The different behaviours will be explained with the help of examples after all the options have been described in this table.

If you don't add a name, you will be prompted for one when you try to save your settings upon leaving the administration menu.

You can also use only a dash as name, which will not show any name plate at all, but only the list, which has been selected for this entry. Please be aware, that due to how the sidebar entries work, nothing will be shown, if you are using the dash as name for a single-entry (e.g. a single file).

This is the most influential choice in this menu, because this decides the type of entry, you are adding to your sidebar list.

The following options are available:

• Group title: This is just a group title, which looks the same as any other group names except for the triangle used to expand or reduce the list. This group type is best used in conjunction with the feature, that a group with only a dash as file name does not show its own name plate. The two default entries are using this interaction (see the explanation of the different entries below this table).
• Text Only: These is a pure text entry, differing from the "Group title" option only in its indendation to show that it's not a group title but custom text.
• File Name: Select this option to show only one single file, to which you have to enter the path and its name in the then appearing text field. The sidebar will then show the given name and clicking on it, will open only this file. This option is available for PDF documents or signature sets (SSS) or a combination of both file types, which will open both of them and try to start the signature set.
• Directory: This is also available for PDFs, SSS files or both of these file types. However, in this case, you have to select a whole folder, which will then be shown in the sidebar and offer all its files with the appropriate file extension(s) to open. If there is already a PDF loaded, opening a SSS file from the sidebar will try to process it immediately. For this group type, you can decide if the natural state of this file list in the sidebar shall be expanded or not. Later, you can temporary change this state, but as soon as the "Documents" tab is closed, each list will return to its natural state as per your settings.
• Recently Used: With this option, only the most recently used file with the appropriate file extension will be shown. Using the "Recently Used PDFSSS" group type will always show the last used PDFs with their corresponding signature sets. It will not show a list with the recently used PDFs and SSS files separately.

With the options in the lower part of the menu, you can further customize these entries. (Explained below)

Bring application to top when files are changed

This option is only available for directories and makes eSignatureOffice to show in the foreground as soon as a new document is detected in the configured folder. With this option, you can keep eSignatureOffice in the background or minimized and when a new file is detected, the program is brought to the top, where you can select, open and sign the new document.

This option can be used to automatically load and show documents, which are detected in a supervized folder to be new documents. In combination with the previous option, you can run eSignatureOffice minimized or in the background and new files are opened automatically as soon as they are detected.

This option can only be used together with the previous option "Open new documents automatically". If multiple documents are copied in a short time into a monitored folder, these documents are queued and will be opened one after another as soon as the each file is closed. When activating this option here, those new documents will be sorted alphabetical before being opened.

This option can only be used together with the previous option "Open new documents automatically". If you decided to open new documents automatically, you can use this option here to start the signing process automatically just as if you had clicked on the "Sign" button in the user interface or on the signature pad.

Activate this checkbox to make the type of list visible, which you selected from the dropdown list (either one of the 3 sidebar group types or the list in the main menu). Please take note, that this will not automatically show these lists in the sidebar, but only allow showing them. You still need to create an entry with the appropriate group type as described above!