How many times can you sign off and lock a channel?
If a channel of a standard is acquired once, is it possible to do an endless amount of Esign1 actions on it but only lock that channel once? Am I right in thinking that once a channel is locked no more electronic signatures can be done on it? Or can you do more signatures on a locked channel but just get a warning about it to say that its locked? Any insights appreciated, thanks.
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If I'm correct, you can still process the original channel and generate more results, and you can report any given result with a number of different report methods limited only by Oracle and the amount of table space available - and everyone can be signed off multiple times.
Personally, I've decided that taking up gobs of table space and time with all-encompassing report methods is the lesser evil when compared to having many little report methods that *all* have to be signed off.
I recall a message saying something like "Channel already locked" which appears when you try to lock an already locked channel but I wasn't sure if there was a limit to the number of times you can ESign1 or 2 a channel. But depending on your policy settings, you only get a warning saying "these results have already been signed off for this reason" but it doesn't stop you from doing it.
Some years back, on a different installation, I recall having had no problems generating additional results using "locked" channels. It could be a policy setting difference or faulty memory on my part.