Newbie question re: electronic signature

I have a few questions regarding electronic signature in a form I'm developing.
The form will require multiple electronic signatures .. one from the original user making a request, 2 more from approvers, and a final from the person fulfilling the request. I've defined the 4 signature fields, but in testing, when I electronically sign the first, it forces a save of the document at that point. That's not a killer, and after reading some related threads I understand why. But when I re-open the saved document to add an approving signature, I find the entire doc is now locked from accepting any further activity. BTW, approvers will have to complete additional fields along with adding their signature.
On a related note, whenever a signature is added, I need to automatically populate a "signature date" field. I found another thread in this forum that purported to give an example, but the example didn't work in practice, and the document was protected, so I couldn't open it for editing to examine the code. When dealing with the code, I'm not a java programmer but have a heavy programming background in several other languages, so expect I can understand fragments and be able to pick up what I need fairly easily.
Any and all help will be appreciated.

If you have EP installed on Windows you can use the same server for your .net applications, but may be your server will need more memory or processor.
You can check the EP PDK for VStudio.net documentation, this document explains how works the integration with .net, for example, IIS is not need it, but you have to have a Windows 2003 server with .net framework installed, this is a fragment of the documentation: "The SAP Enterprise Portal acts as the only web server, therefore IIS is neither needed nor used."
I didn't found any information about performance or salability, I don't know if SAP will release something in the future.
Message was edited by: Rafael Cardenas

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