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How This section covers how to use the Dashboard and the Project tab to create and manage projects and the documents within them. |
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When you log in, all the projects you can access are visible on the dashboard. A project’s name is determined by the title of the Bill or SI it relates to. (Each project also has a unique ID number like SP000123 or SI007534.)
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If you’re the first person to work on a particular Bill or statutory instrument then you will need to create a project for it first. See [Create Creating a new project] for instructions on how to do that
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More about Documents
Everything in Lawmaker is based on documents. As mentioned above, projects are collections of documents and, when you are using the Editor, you are editing a document.
Lawmaker handles a range of different document types. The most common are Bills, statutory instruments and amendment lists but others are covered too.
There are different types of document versions - working, significant and snapshot - and these are explained below.
Working versions
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and snapshots
A working version is an unpublished document that you can view and edit. Working versions are only ever visible to users in one organisation: the organisation of the user that created the document. But access to a particular working version may be restricted further.
For each working version, Lawmaker also stores a series of related snapshot versions. A snapshot version is a read-only, point-in-time snapshot of the working version. Snapshots are created automatically when certain actions are carried or when the user requests that a snapshot be created.
Snapshots are created when you:
generate a PDF
Download a zip file
Duplicate a document
Share a document
Publish a document
Submit a document to TNA
Lawmaker also stores the auto-saved version of any document you are working on as a snapshot. Each time you save a working version, Lawmaker creates a backup snapshot (overwriting the existing backup) so if the master document gets corrupted in the save process, the backup can be used to restore the document.
Significant versions
A significant version is a document that has been published or shared with a user who is external to your organisation or shared with another organisation
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