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Sign a notebook page
When a page should be the record of your work, sign it: its text is fingerprinted and the page is locked.
Whoever may edit the pageDesktop and lab server
- Open the page in the Notebook.
- Press Sign at the top of the page.The page's owner, and anyone it is shared with to edit, can sign it; anyone else can witness it once it is signed.
- Under What you are saying, choose whether you did this work or reviewed the page.
- Confirm who you are: Your password, or, if you sign in with Google or Microsoft, your user name.
- Press Sign and lock.
Its exact text is fingerprinted and kept as a version, any live experiment in it is frozen as it is then, and the page is locked: nobody can change or delete it. The button now says Signed; it lists every signature, each showing whether the page still reads as it did when signed. A lab mate can open it and Witness the page.
Changing a signed pageIts owner presses Signed, writes Why it is being amended and
presses Open to amend. The reason and every signature stay with the page; sign it again when it is done.
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