# Cancel editing

The Cancel Editing API allows you to cancel the editing of a document that is currently in edit mode.

## Cancel document editing

{% post /%}
{% path text="/v1/document/cancelEditing" /%}

Cancelling the edit of a document that’s already in edit mode can be done using this API, but you must be the sender of that document. If the document was sent on behalf of someone else, you’ll need to have that sender’s identity verified in your account before you can cancel the edit.

## Code snippet

{% codetab %}

cURL

```shell
curl -X POST 'https://api.boldsign.com/v1/document/cancelEditing?documentId=625cff3d...&onBehalfOf=sender@yourdomain.com' \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: {your API key}'
```

C#

```csharp
var apiClient = new ApiClient("https://api.boldsign.com", "Your_API_Key");
var documentClient = new DocumentClient(apiClient);

var cancelEdit = new CancelDocumentEditingRequest()
{
    DocumentId = "625cff3d...",
    OnBehalfOf = "sender@yourdomain.com"
};

var editCancelled = await documentClient.CancelEditingAsync(cancelEdit);
```

Python

```python
import boldsign

configuration = boldsign.Configuration(host = "https://api.boldsign.com", api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
with boldsign.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    document_api = boldsign.DocumentApi(api_client)
    document_api.cancel_editing(
        document_id="YOUR_DOCUMENT_ID",
        on_behalf_of="sender@yourdomain.com")
```

PHP

```php
<?php require_once "vendor/autoload.php";

use BoldSign\Configuration;
use BoldSign\Api\DocumentApi;

// Configure API key authorization: X-API-KEY
$config = Configuration();
$config->setHost('https://api.boldsign.com');
$config->setApiKey('YOUR_API_KEY');

$apiInstance = DocumentApi($config);
$apiInstance->cancelEditing(document_id: "YOUR_DOCUMENT_ID");
```

Java

```java
import boldsign.ApiClient;
import boldsign.ApiException;
import boldsign.Configuration;
import boldsign.api.DocumentApi;

ApiClient apiClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();
apiClient.setBasePath("https://api.boldsign.com");
apiClient.setApiKey("YOUR_API_KEY");
String documentId = "YOUR_DOCUMENT_ID";
String onBehalfOf = "sender@yourdomain.com";
DocumentApi documentApi = new DocumentApi(apiClient);
documentApi.cancelEditing(documentId, onBehalfOf);
```

NodeJS

```js
import { DocumentApi } from "boldsign";

const documentApi = new DocumentApi("https://api.boldsign.com");
documentApi.setApiKey("YOUR_API_KEY");

await documentApi.cancelEditing("YOUR_DOCUMENT_ID");
```

{% /codetab %}

## Query parameters

{% nestedtable %}

- {% arguments name="documentId" /%}{% batch datatype="string" /%}{% required /%}
- The unique document id of the document.

---

- {% arguments name="onBehalfOf" /%}{% batch datatype="string" /%}
- The on behalf email address of the sender.

{% /nestedtable %}

## Example response

***200 Success***

```json
Editing session canceled successfully.
```