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| 1 | Setup a test Bill | Expand |
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| Login to Lawmaker as a House of Lords user From the Dashboard, click Create Select UK Public Bill > Government Bill Create some sections and Schedules in the Bill, using the Editor (Alternatively, on the Project Tab, from the Document Actions menu, import a UK PGA from Legislation.gov.uk ) Update the Document Information (either from the Editor, or from the Actions menu next to your version on the Project Tab); change the Version rubric to ‘As Introduced’; ensure Printed by is set to the Lords Generate a PDF of this version; ensure ‘Line Numbering’ is selected ticked in the Generate PDF modal On the Project Tab, expand the snapshots below your version and click the Actions menu next to the PDF snapshot version; select Publish |
| A significant version is created On the ‘Amendment Workspace’ and ‘Amendment' Manager' tabs the top-left drop-down filter shows an ‘As Introduced’ version | (delete as appropriate) | |
| 2 | As an OPC user, create a Traditional List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) for House of Lords amendments | Expand |
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| Login to Lawmaker as an OPC user Open the UK Bill project On the Amendment Workspace tab, click New In the modal, pick Traditional type of amendment list Bill version: "as introduced" version House: "House of Lords" Stage: “Committee” Specify an unique List name and select a Proposer Click Create |
| The Editor will be opened containing the draft list of amendments template And the Bill name will appear at the top of the template And the stage will match what I specified And the proposer will match what I specified | | |
| 3 | As an OPC user, create some amendments in the LoDA Create at least three amendments, so you can test other features (like ‘bulk update status’) in later steps. Include references to clauses and schedules - this will allow you to test the Order of Consideration later. | Expand |
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| With the LoDA open in the Editor, click inside the first 'Instruction' placeholder Press Enter and select an amendment from the Content Completion Assistant Repeat the preceding step to create the following types of amendments: - leave out clause or leave out schedule - new clause - new schedule - page-line - stand part motion - amendment to amendment |
| A new amendment appears in the Editor And there are custom placeholders for Page-line, New Clause, New Schedule, and Stand part amendments And the proposer is the same as the proposer of the previous amendment And an entry appears in the Structure view And when I click save, D numbers will be assigned to all my amendments And the Dnumber assignment shows the user's organisation abbreviation, followed by a number that increases sequentially by 1 and has no leading zeros e.g. OPC1, OPC2 | | |
| 4 | Turn on/off line numbering for amendments Turn on/off line number on amendments (including ping pong motions) | Expand |
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| With the LoDA open in the Editor Right-click on an amendment Select Update line number status Choose either ‘No line numbers’ or ‘Add line numbers’ Generate a PDF by clicking Document > Generate PDF |
| For amendments where ‘add line numbers’ has been selected: line numbers appear every five lines For amendments where ‘no line numbers’ has been selected: no line numbers appear | | |
| 5 | Change the Proposer of a Lords amendment and add supporters Managing proposers and supporters | Expand |
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| With the LoDA open in the Editor Click on the Proposer name above an amendment in the main editor window In the Manage Proposers and Supporters modal which appears, use the Proposers and Supporters fields to add members names to the amendment Click Update to confirm your selection |
| Able to bring up the Manage Proposers and Supporters modal Able to search for and select names in both fields On clicking Update, chosen names appear in the main Editor window above the relevant amendment | | |
| 6 | Generate PDF of Lords amendment LoDA with D-Numbers | Expand |
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| With the LoDA open in the Editor Click Document Select Generate PDF In the Generate PDF modal, select ‘Show D-numbers’ |
| PDF is generated and opens in a new tab PDF shows the D-numbers of all the amendments | | |
| 7 | As an OPC user, Submit Lords amendments from the LoDA Submitting amendments | Expand |
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| With the LoDA open in the Editor Open the ‘Document Information’ panel on the right-hand side Click Submit List |
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| title | Alternative Steps (from the Amendment Manager tab) |
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| After saving and closing the LoDA, go to the Amendment Manager tab Select one or more of the amendments there From the Amendment Actions menu, select Submit amendments |
| Warning modal appears asking you to confirm that you want to submit the amendments Modal contains the option to ‘mark amendments as government amendments' On confirming, a progress bar appears After submission completes, the ‘Amendment information’ panel shows the Status as ‘Submitted’ for all amendments in the list If you are submitting from the Amendment Manager tab, a green success toastie should appear if the amendments were submitted successfully | | |
| 8 | As a HoL user, view submitted Lords amendments in ephemeral list | Expand |
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| Login to Lawmaker as a House of Lord user Open the Bill project On the Amendment Manager tab, tick the checkbox next to the OPC-submitted amendments From the Amendment Actions menu, select Create temporary list |
| Editor opens, showing the selected amendments The amendments are editable | | |
| 9 | Table and Reject amendments from the ephemeral list | Expand |
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| With the temporary list open in the Editor Click within the text of one of the amendments Expand the Amendment Status panel on the right-hand side Click the ‘Tabled’ or ‘Rejected’ Save the list |
| Able to view the ‘Tabled' and ‘Rejected’ buttons Able to click either button On clicking, the editor locks and a loading spinner briefly displays On saving, the ‘Status’ shown in the Amendment Status panel shows either Tabled or Rejected | | |
| 10 | Bulk update the other amendments' statuses | Expand |
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| With the temporary list open in the Editor Expand the Amendment Status panel on the right-hand side Click the Bulk update statuses button In the Update Amendment Statuses modal, in the ‘Amendments to update’ dropdown, select those amendments which you did not update in the previous step; select ‘Submitted to Tabled’ in the ‘Status transition’ dropdown Click Update Save the list |
| After clicking Update, Editor briefly locks and loading spinner appears Green success toastie appears in the top-right of the screen After saving, the status of the amendments (in the Amendment Information panel) is now 'Tabled' | | |
| 11 | Update Lifecycle Event for one of the amendments Undoing an amendment status/managing lifecycle events | Expand |
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| Click within the text of one of the amendments which was Tabled Expand the Amendment Status panel Click Manage lifecycle events Use the delete button to remove the ‘Tabled’ event Click Update |
| The status of the selected amendment (in the Amendment Information panel) changes to ‘Submitted’ | | |
| 12 | Create Lords Daily Sheet Generating a Lords Daily Sheet (incl. unnumbered supplementary sheets) | Expand |
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| On the Amendment Manager tab, click the Amendment Actions menu and select Create Official List In the Create amendment list modal, select ‘Lords Daily Sheet’ from the ‘Amendment list’ dropdown In the Bill Version tab, there should be only one option (the published Bill version) In the Stage/Committee dropdown, select ‘in Committee of the Whole House’ Select today’s date as the cut-off date, and a time slightly in the future for the cut-off time Pick any name for the list Click Create |
| A Lords daily sheet will open in the Editor containing all the tabled amendments The amendments will not be numbered Amendments will be sorted according to the Lord's sort order; refer to the document hereManual for guidance: Sorting logic used by Lords amendment lists | | |
| 13 | Move amendment on Lords Daily Sheet using structure view | Expand |
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| Drag an amendment into a new location using the Structure View on the left-hand side of the Editor window |
| Editor is updated showing the amendment in the new location Structure view also updates | | |
| 14 | Create an Order of Consideration for Lords amendments Creating an Order of Consideration To test this step, some of the amendments you created in earlier steps must refer to numbered clauses and schedules. | Expand |
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| From the Amendment manager tab click on Order of Consideration button Change the Order so that you can manipulate it such that amendments appear before others e.g. Schedule 1 Clause(s) 1-2 Click Save Generate another Lords Daily Sheet |
| Able to add and amend the Order of Consideration using the modal In the generated Daily Sheet, the amendments are sorted according to the OoC | | |
| 15 | Sort amendments by Order of Consideration on the 'Amendment Manager' tab | Expand |
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| Click the OoC Sort button on the Location column |
| Amendments are sorted in the list according to the OoC | | |
| 16 | Update Daily Sheet Document Information | Expand |
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| From the Official Lists tab, open the Official List you created earlier in the Editor Expand the Document Information panel Populate the four fields here with information, for example: List Number: III Version: revised Session: [this will be pre-populated based on the Bill’s session] Year: [this will be pre-populated based on the Bill’s year] Click the Save button From the Document menu, Generate a PDF |
| Able to edit values in the panel In the PDF, the List Number and Version appear in the footer  | | |
| 17 | Generate PDF of Lords Daily Sheet from List tab | Expand |
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| From the Official Lists tab, click the Actions menu next to your Official List and select Generate PDF Ensure ‘Record snapshot version’ is ticked |
| PDF version generated Green success toastie appears on the List tab When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’ | | |
| 18 | Publish Lords Daily Sheet | Expand |
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| From the Official Lists tab, click the Actions menu next to the PDF snapshot you generated Select Publish In the modal, click Publish |
| Publish version modal appears After confirming, a new significant version is created on the right-hand side Significant version’s label will be the version label of your list, prepended with the word ‘Published’ | | |
| 19 | Create Second Daily sheet | | 20 | Lords Daily sheet cut off time test | | 21 | Add note to Lords amendment | | Status |
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| On the Amendment Workspace tab, create a new LoDA; ensure Stage is set to ‘Committee’ Create one or two new amendments Save the list Expand the Amendment Status panel Click Bulk update statuses In the modal, select all amendments and choose to update from ‘Draft to Submitted’ Click Update and then Save the list Expand the Amendment Status panel again Click Bulk update statuses In the modal, select all amendments and choose to update from ‘Submitted to Tabled’ Click Update and then Save the list Close the Editor and return to the Official Lists tab Click Create and in the modal select ‘Lords Daily Sheet'; set Stage to ‘Committee of the Whole House’; set the cut-off date to today’s date and use a time slightly in the future for the cut-off time Click Create |
| A Lords Daily Sheet opens in the Editor The list contains only the amendments that weren't in the previous published list (i.e. just your new amendments) | | |
| 22 | Use filters on Amendment Manager tab | | Status |
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colour | Green20 | Lords Daily sheet cut-off time test | Pass | 23 | Generate a Lords Running List (incl. PDF & Publish) | From the Official List tab Click Create and in the modal select ‘Lords Daily Sheet'; set Stage to ‘Committee of the Whole House’; set the cut-off date to today’s date and use a time in the past for the cut-off time (before you Tabled the previous amendments) Click Create |
| A Lords Daily Sheet opens in the Editor The list does not contain the new amendments (because they were tabled after the cut-off time. | | |
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| 21 | Add note to Lords amendment Inserting an amendment note | Expand |
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| Open one of the LoDAs created in the previous steps Right-click in the text of one of the amendments Select Insert Amendment Note |
| A placeholder note appears above the amendment Able to type text into the placeholder | | |
| 22 | Use filters on Amendment Manager tab Filtering amendments | Able to use the Quick Filter to filter on Amendment Status Able to use the main filter to filter on: LoDA name Dnum Location Member Status Comment text
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| 23 | Generate and publish a Lords Running List Generating a Lords Running List | Expand |
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| From the Official Lists tab Click Create and in the modal select ‘Lords Running List; set Stage to ‘Committee of the Whole House’; set the cut-off date to today’s date and use a time slightly in the future for the cut-off time In the Editor, from the Document menu, select Generate PDF and generate a PDF of the list Close the Editor On the Official Lists tab, expand the list of snapshots below your new Running List Click the Actions menu next to the PDF entry Select Publish |
| Editor opens showing the Running List Running List contains all amendments tabled so far (up until the cut-off date and time) Order of Consideration is listed in two columns on the first page After selecting ‘Publish’ from the Actions menu, the publish version modal appears After confirming, a new significant version is created on the right-hand side Significant version’s label will be the version label of your list, prepended with the word ‘Published’ | | |
| 24 | Create amendments to amendments (Testing parsing) | | | |
| 25 | Create a Lords Marshalled List | | | |
| 26 | Update star status | | | |
| 27 | Generate PDF of Lords Marshalled List | | | |
| 28 | Publish Lords Marshalled List | | | |
| 29 | Recording outcomes (use Next/Previous buttons) | | | |
| 30 | Create another Daily Sheet (now a supplementary sheet) | | | |
| 31 | Create a Manuscript Amendment List | | | |
| 32 | Generate PDF of Manuscript List | | | |
| 33 | Publish Manuscript List | | | |
| 34 | Test CCA for all Lords Amendment Lists | | | |
| 35 | Applying amendments (& resolving cross references) | | | |
| 36 | Prepare Bill "As Brought From Lords" | | | |
| 37 | OPC create LoDA for HoC amendments | | | |
| 38 | Create amendment cross references | | | |
| 39 | OPC creates HoC amendment | | | |
| 40 | Amend proposer and add supporters in Commons amendment | | | |
| 41 | Generate PDF of Commons amendment LoDA with D Numbers | | | |
| 42 | Set amendments to 'On hold' | | | |
| 43 | OPC Submit Commons amendments (incl. flag & comment test) | | | |
| 44 | HoC open submitted amendments in Ephemeral List | | | |
| 45 | Save ephemeral list as LoDA | | | |
| 46 | Copy and paste amendments in LoDA | | | |
| 47 | Bulk Table Amendments | | | |
| 48 | Bulk 'Ready for published' amendments | | | |
| 49 | Duplicate a LoDA | | | |
| 50 | Renumber amendments | | | |
| 51 | Create Commons Marshalled List (incl. Update List) | | | |
| 52 | Resolve x-refs | | | |
| 53 | Update sort codes | | | |
| 54 | Insert resolutions and motions and convert resolution to order | | | |
| 55 | Create order of consideration for Commons amendments | | | |
| 56 | Re-run 'Update List' in Commons Marshalled List | | | |
| 57 | PDF Commons Marshalled list | | | |
| 58 | Publish Commons Marshalled List | | | |
| 59 | Duplicate last published Commons Marhsalled List | | | |
| 60 | Re-run 'Update List' (having created more amendments & use white star) | | | |
| 61 | Share Marshalled List with OPC | | | |
| 62 | Recording outcomes (use Next/Previous buttons) | | | |
| 63 | Generate a Commons Proceedings Document | | | |
| 64 | Generate PDF of Commons Proceedings Document | | | |
| 65 | Publish Commons Proceedings Document | | | |
| 66 | Create another Commons Marshalled List | | | |
| 67 | Applying amendments (& resolving cross references) | | | |
| 68 | Re-open auto-save version on refresh | | | |
