Our primary focus here in the Developer Center team is helping you achieve your goal of building an app that integrates DocuSign technologies using the DocuSign APIs. As such, we mostly focus on the building part of the development lifecycle.

We rarely talk about what happens to your app once it’s working in production. Apps in production may require debugging and troubleshooting. They may work well for some customers, but not for others. You may find out months after your app was approved that there are bugs or unexpected behavior. We want to help you with that as well. To that end, we recently released a new tool called the API Dashboard. This is where you can see all the API calls that your app has made, investigate any issues, and learn more about how your app is behaving. Read all about that new API Dashboard directly from one of the engineers who built it, Bharat Rele, on his blog post on this topic.

Also this month, a colleague of Bharat, Majid Mallis, has ventured on a new blog series that takes you through the story of our SDKs. The first part in this series gives you some of the background and history of how we came to build the SDKs to help you use our eSignature API.

Since it’s November, that means it’s Dreamforce season. And even if Dreamforce is a bit more dreamy this year, we still have some Salesforce- and Apex-related content for you.  Sasha Vodnik will tell you about a new DocuSign University Course focusing on the Apex Toolkit. Geoff Pfander has an excellent article about using the Apex Toolkit to send responsive HTML documents. If you are interested in learning more about DocuSign and Salesforce and anything in between, I also recommend attending one of Lauren Dunne’s talks on this topic.

If you read this issue, you’ll find we have many more goodies for you and I really appreciate you taking the time to read our newsletter.

Missing Salesforce's Dreamforce conference this year? Try our eSignature for Salesforce Webinar Series! Senior Salesforce Evangelist Lauren Dunne is hosting these webinars to cover all the great things you can do with Salesforce and DocuSign together.

• New Release Features for DocuSign eSignature for Salesforce:
  November 18, 2020, 10 am PT
• DocuSign eSignature for Salesforce Meetup:
  November 19, 2020, 10 am PT
• New Features of Apex Toolkit:
  December 2, 2020, 10 am PT
• DocuSign eSignature for Salesforce Meetup:
  December 3, 2020, 10 am PT
• Hands-on Workshop: Setting up DocuSign for Salesforce:
  December 9, 2020, 10 am PT

API Office Hours: Live Q&A with our API Experts: If you have questions about the DocuSign APIs, then we have the event for you. We'll start with a quick demo, then open it up for your questions.

• December 1, 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT

API Office Hours: Live from Australia: Join us for a live Q&A session with Rickey Story, our local API expert.

• December 7, 2 pm AEST

• JSON to SDK Program Generator: Our new tool extracts the JSON from our API Request Builder and converts it into SDK programs.
• Common API Tasks🐈: Discover the Rooms API and learn how to invite a person to join a DocuSign Room.
• From the Trenches: Geoff Pfander shows you how to use the Apex Toolkit to send responsive HTML documents with dynamically set tabs.
• HMAC verification with PHP: Ivan Dinkov shows you via a PHP script how to test the validity of HMAC signatures associated with your Connect webhook messages.
• Preparing for TLS 1.1 removal: DocuSign is removing support for weak ciphers soon. Get prepared for using the latest TLS standard in your DocuSign integrations.

• Developer Spotlight: Kamaljeet Singh, software development team lead with Veintes Tech, spearheaded a DocuSign integration for a financial services client.
• Top Trending Topics: Popular threads from our StackOverflow forums uncover a workaround for a common Salesforce error, what happens when you try to put too much data in a single envelope, and advice on using JWT authentication for apps with no UI.

• Developing with DocuSign: C# Quickstart & Embedded Signing Demo
  Get your integration started in minutes. In this introductory video we’ll show how to download, install and run the DocuSign eSignature REST API C# Quickstart on Windows.
• Discovering DocuSign University on the Developer Center
  Get an overview of DocuSign University, our course catalog, and watch a Q&A session with DocuSign University experts.
• Go-Live Part 1: Getting Started
  In this first video of our go-live series, we discuss the background for the go-live process, whether or not your application needs go-live, and more.

• November 2020: Released to Demo 10/23
  Announcing the impending deprecation of the eSignature API v1, enforcing unique documentId values for a given envelope, and DocuSign Entrust certificate renewal
• October 2020: Released to Production 10/2
  eSignature v1 deprecated; full support for conditional recipients in the eSignature REST API; new properties available on custom tabs; fix for duplicate document IDs

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