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As an OPC user, setup a test Bill project

Able to create a UKPGA Bill project

As an OPC user, create a Traditional List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) for House of Lords amendments Creating new amendments on a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA)

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

As an OPC user, create some amendments in the LoDA

Drafting and editing amendments

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 D number 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

The amendments are also visible in the table on the Amendment Manager tab

Share the Bill with the House of Lords Sharing a document with another organisation

Able to share the Bill using the Share action

Able to select House of Lords in the modal

Able to view the Bill project as a House of Lords user (necessary for the next step of this script)

Login as a House of Lords user and create a published ‘As Introduced’ version of the bill Managing document information Preparing a bill for introduction

A significant version is created

The top-left drop-down filter on the ‘Amendment Workspace’ and ‘Amendment' Manager' tabs shows an ‘As Introduced’ version

Login as an OPC user and check that the amendments you drafted earlier are still visible on the Amendment Manager tab

Amendments are still visible on the Amendment Manager tab

As an OPC user, turn on/off line numbering for amendments

Turn on/off line number on amendments (including ping pong motions)

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

As an OPC user, change the Proposer of a Lords amendment and add supporters

Managing proposers and supportersdocument information

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

As an OPC user, place some amendments On Hold

Set 'Draft' amendments to 'On hold' (and vice versa)

Able to put amendments On Hold

Unable to Submit an amendment which is On hold

As an OPC user, generate PDF of Lords amendment LoDA with D-Numbers Generating and viewing a PDF

PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen

The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked

Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab

PDF shows the D-numbers of all the amendments

The user manual will need to be updated for v16

As an OPC user, Submit Lords amendments from the LoDA

Submitting 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

As a HoL user, view submitted Lords amendments in ephemeral list

Opening amendments in the Editor (creating temporary lists)

Editor opens, showing the selected amendments

The amendments are editable

Table and Reject amendments from the ephemeral list

Tabling UK amendments (incl. 'ready for publishing')

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

Bulk update the other amendments' statuses

https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526674/Tabling+UK+amendments+incl.+ready+for+publishing#To-update-statuses-in-one-go

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'

Update Lifecycle Event for one of the amendments

Undoing an amendment status/managing lifecycle events

The status of the selected amendment (in the Amendment Information panel) changes to ‘Submitted’

Create Lords Daily Sheet

Generating a Lords Daily Sheet (incl. unnumbered supplementary sheets)

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 Manual for guidance: Sorting logic used by Lords amendment lists

Move an amendment on a Lords Daily Sheet using the Structure View

Using the structure view

Editor is updated showing the amendment in the new location

Structure view also updates

Create an Order of Consideration for Lords amendments

Creating an Order of Consideration

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

Sort amendments by Order of Consideration on the 'Amendment Manager' tab

Amendments are sorted in the list according to the OoC

Update Daily Sheet Document Information 

Managing document information

Able to edit values in the panel

In the PDF generated in the next step, the List Number and Version appear in the footer

Generate PDF of Lords Daily Sheet from the Official Lists tab

Generating and viewing a PDF

PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen

The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked

Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab

When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’

The user manual will need to be updated for v16

Publish Lords Daily Sheet

Publishing UK amendment lists (incl. ping pong lists)

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’

Create Second Daily sheet with newly tabled amendments in it

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)

Lords Daily sheet cut-off time test

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.

Add a note to Lords amendment

Inserting an amendment note

A placeholder note appears above the amendment

Able to type text into the placeholder

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

Generate and publish a Lords Running List

Generating a Lords Running List

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’

Create amendments to amendments in a new LoDA (to test the parsing of amendment text)

[Commons and Lords] Amendments to amendments

Able to create amendments to amendments

After saving, the Amendment Information panel shows the following ‘Provision’ attribute for each amendment:

• first amendment: sec_5

• second amendment: sch_3

• third amendment amnd_2

Page and line numbers are also populated for the first two amendments

Create a Lords Marshalled List

Generating a Lords Marshalled List

A Lords Marshalled List opens in the Editor containing all the tabled amendments

The amendments are numbered

Amendments are sorted according to the Lord's sort order; refer to the Manual for guidance: Sorting logic used by Lords amendment lists

The user manual may need to be edited/updated

Update star status

Inserting/removing an Amendment Star

Able to update star status from the modal

Updated stars display in the Editor

Generate PDF of Lords Marshalled List and publish it

Generating and viewing a PDF Publishing UK amendment lists (incl. ping pong lists)

PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen

The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked

Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab

When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’

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’

Record outcomes against amendments using the Editor

Recording amendment outcomes

Able to use the Next and Previous buttons to choose between amendments in the list

Able to use the Tabled and Rejected buttons

Clicking Tabled or Rejected causes the button to become highlighted

Able to click again on a highlighted button to deselect it; it becomes un-highlighted

Clicking Save updates the Status (which is also visible in the Amendment Status pane) to show either ‘Tabled' or ‘Rejected’ depending on which button was highlighted when the save action was performed

Create another Daily Sheet (a supplementary sheet)

https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/64782398/Generating+a+Lords+Daily+Sheet+incl.+unnumbered+supplementary+sheets#Deciding-on-the-document-template-to-use%3A

New daily sheet opens in the Editor, in a new tab

The supplementary ‘rubric’ appears in the Preface: [Supplementary to the Marshalled List]

The list contains only new amendments tabled since the previous Marshalled List was published

Create a Manuscript Amendment List containing a new amendment

Generating a Lords Manuscript List (used for numbered supplementary sheets)

New List opens in the Editor, in a new tab

The list contains the selected amendment

Amendment is numbered

Amendment will have a black star against it (because it was not published on an earlier list)

Generate PDF of Manuscript List and publish it

Generating and viewing a PDF

PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen

The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked

Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab

When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’

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’

Add additional text to the official Lords lists

Inserting/deleting amendments or interstitial headings

Able to add new paragraphs to the front and back covers

Able to add interstitial headings between amendments in the list

Applying amendments

Applying Amendments

Green success toastie appears in top-right of the screen

Number of amendments successfully applied is stated in the toastie

On the Project Tab, a new bill version exists in the chosen folder with the label you specified

When opening that version in the Editor, you can expand the Inline amendments pane and Review pane on the right-hand side to see successful and failed amendments

If one or more amendments were successfully applied, the bill version contains red and blue tracked change markup showing the changes made by those amendments

If one or more amendments were successfully applied, there is an ‘Accept All’ button at the top of the list in the Inline amendments panel

Clicking ‘Accept all’ applies the amendments to the bill text and removes the red and blue tracked changes

Update cross references in amendments

https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526373/Applying+Amendments#Cross-references-in-applied-amendments

Able to resolve cross-references in applied amendments

Create the ‘As amended in Committee’ version and publish it

PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen

The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked

Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab

When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’

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’

Prepare the "As Brought From Lords" version

Preparing a House Bill​

OPC create LoDA for HoC amendments

Able to share version between HoL and HoC

Able to add Brought from date

Able to change ‘Printed by’ value to House of Commons

Able to update the front and back covers in the Editor

Version rubric shows [As brought from the Lords]

Able to generate a PDF and publish it

As an OPC user, create a new LoDA against the As Brought from the Lords version

Editor opens 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

And the list will be visible on the "Amendment Workspace" tab against the As brought from the Lords workspace filter

Create amendment cross references

OPC creates HoC amendmentAs an OPC user, create some amendments in the LoDA

Drafting and editing amendments

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 D number 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

The amendments are also visible in the table on the Amendment Manager tab

Amend proposer and add supporters in Commons amendment

Managing proposers and supporters

Generate PDF of Commons amendment LoDA with D Numbers

Set amendments to 'On hold'

OPC Submit Commons amendments (incl. flag & comment test)

HoC open submitted amendments in Ephemeral List

Save ephemeral list as LoDA

Copy and paste amendments in LoDA

Bulk Table Amendments

Bulk 'Ready for published' amendments

Duplicate a LoDA

Renumber amendments

Create Commons Marshalled List (incl. Update List)

Resolve x-refs

Update sort codes

Insert resolutions and motions and convert resolution to order

Create order of consideration for Commons amendments

Re-run 'Update List' in Commons Marshalled List

PDF Commons Marshalled list

Publish Commons Marshalled List

Duplicate last published Commons Marhsalled List

Re-run 'Update List' (having created more amendments & use white star)

Share Marshalled List with OPC

Recording outcomes (use Next/Previous buttons)

Generate a Commons Proceedings Document

Generate PDF of Commons Proceedings Document

Publish Commons Proceedings Document

Create another Commons Marshalled List

Applying amendments (& resolving cross references)

Re-open auto-save version on refresh