Signing
Where a form calls for a signature, it shows a preview of how your signature will read, next to a Sign button. Press Sign, then save the submission — the signature is only recorded when the submission itself is saved. Nauticare then asks for your password: enter your Nauticare account password (the one you use to sign in with your email address, even if you usually sign in with Google) and press Sign and save. It is asked every time a save adds a signature, on a new, open or closed submission, so a signature proves it was you at the keyboard. A wrong password shows "Incorrect password." and nothing is saved; your entries stay on the page so you can try again. Repeated wrong passwords count toward the same account lock as signing in.
Once a field is signed it identifies the person who signed it, dated to the moment the submission was saved. Depending on how the template was set up, a signature displays either as full name and date, or as initials only.
To undo a signature, press clear next to it and save. This works on a signature that has already been saved too, and the history log records the field as unsigned. Clearing a signature, or saving a submission without adding one, does not ask for a password.
Who may sign
A template can restrict each signature field to particular people. If you are not one of them, the Sign button is greyed out and hovering over it tells you who is allowed to sign that field. Restrictions can name:
- the Captain,
- Management — the shore-side company users,
- a specific crew rank,
- or the crew member this form was created for, when the submission was raised for a named person.
The app checks this again when you save, so a signature you were not entitled to make is rejected rather than stored.
If a signature field carries no restriction, anyone who can edit the submission may sign it.
The Awaiting Signature tab
The Awaiting Signature tab on the category pages and on Operations → Overview lists open submissions that still have at least one restricted signature field waiting to be signed. Signature fields with no restriction are not tracked there.
A submission drops off the tab once every restricted signature on it has been given — or once the submission is closed, because the tab only ever lists open submissions.