Issue at hand:
Web app users are supposed to get a signature form a retail store manager for the work they have done. I have in place that the canvas must not be blank.
As we all know, signing on a smooth screen produces signatures that are dissimilar. Almost useless, but not the fault of AA. My signatures when I sign a credit card POS pad are just as wobbly. If only the screen could change it's texture when showing a signature pad. Just a small amount of resistance would be needed to avoid the drift associated with a smooth screen.
Anyway, reviewing the signatures, and the corresponding timestamps has lead management to believe users are signing the pad themselves, sometimes from home.
The store manager does get an email with a summary attached, and a couple manager's have come back with "That was not signed by me...".
Question:
Has anyone used GPS to enforce the user being onsite when a signature is submitted?
My thoughts:
I suspect this is easy enough to do, but in my case the store's address might span the size of a large retail location. Possibly acres including the outdoor yards. I am wondering how one might mathematically determine if the variance between the sites longitude and latitude and the location of signature submission falls within the variance range of the outskirts of the retailer's property.
I guess I need to study how to set longitude/latitude boundaries in some way. Probably need to create a function if Team Alpha has not already done so, and limit the distance to 1/69th of a degree (a mile).
Anyway, has anyone done this? I just want to know it's an achievable task...
Further thoughts:
Has anyone "snapped a picture" of the signing party as they sign it? That also seems possible, but the camera would likely have to open just as when scanning a UPC. That seems clumsy asking the signer to take a selfie of himself...
Anyone using bio-metrics (aka fingerprint) on a web app? I'm not sure if there's even a Cordova plugin for that, and I'm inclined not to travel that road, anyway. It would require registering fingerprints, and I am hoping not to make this any more complicated than need be.
I have considered emailing the manager's a unique code that must be entered for a signature to be accepted. But he may have to work his way back to his phone or desk to look at the email before he/she can close the work order.
In closing:
If I engage the GPS enforcement, I realize all I am resolving is that the signature was put in onsite. I still really cannot tell who is really signing it. One person's scribble looks just like another's.
I guess I've already answered my questions in typing this, but am interested in your feedback...
Web app users are supposed to get a signature form a retail store manager for the work they have done. I have in place that the canvas must not be blank.
As we all know, signing on a smooth screen produces signatures that are dissimilar. Almost useless, but not the fault of AA. My signatures when I sign a credit card POS pad are just as wobbly. If only the screen could change it's texture when showing a signature pad. Just a small amount of resistance would be needed to avoid the drift associated with a smooth screen.
Anyway, reviewing the signatures, and the corresponding timestamps has lead management to believe users are signing the pad themselves, sometimes from home.
The store manager does get an email with a summary attached, and a couple manager's have come back with "That was not signed by me...".
Question:
Has anyone used GPS to enforce the user being onsite when a signature is submitted?
My thoughts:
I suspect this is easy enough to do, but in my case the store's address might span the size of a large retail location. Possibly acres including the outdoor yards. I am wondering how one might mathematically determine if the variance between the sites longitude and latitude and the location of signature submission falls within the variance range of the outskirts of the retailer's property.
I guess I need to study how to set longitude/latitude boundaries in some way. Probably need to create a function if Team Alpha has not already done so, and limit the distance to 1/69th of a degree (a mile).
Anyway, has anyone done this? I just want to know it's an achievable task...
Further thoughts:
Has anyone "snapped a picture" of the signing party as they sign it? That also seems possible, but the camera would likely have to open just as when scanning a UPC. That seems clumsy asking the signer to take a selfie of himself...
Anyone using bio-metrics (aka fingerprint) on a web app? I'm not sure if there's even a Cordova plugin for that, and I'm inclined not to travel that road, anyway. It would require registering fingerprints, and I am hoping not to make this any more complicated than need be.
I have considered emailing the manager's a unique code that must be entered for a signature to be accepted. But he may have to work his way back to his phone or desk to look at the email before he/she can close the work order.
In closing:
If I engage the GPS enforcement, I realize all I am resolving is that the signature was put in onsite. I still really cannot tell who is really signing it. One person's scribble looks just like another's.
I guess I've already answered my questions in typing this, but am interested in your feedback...