Transaction authentication is definable behavior for all transaction types and is available to support user authentication during data capture, often referred to as “electronic signatures”. To define this behavior, attributes specific to authentication must be set within the transaction definition after it has been defined. These attributes are not displayed in the add transaction wizard.
These attributes are used to define transaction authentication on the Agentry Client. This functionality provides the means to authenticate users when they make data changes. Using transaction authentication you can require users to enter their user ID, password, and other information as may be necessary.
Transaction authentication is defined for each transaction definition. This allows for authentication behavior to be exhibited only for data capture operations that require it.
This information can be captured in properties of the transaction itself, or in an instance of an object defined specifically for this purpose, called the authentication object. A separate screen set defined to display the authentication object to the user must exist prior to defining the authentication within the transaction.