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  1. Select the provisions you want to wrap

  2. Either:

    • right-click within the selected provisions in the structure view or the Editor and select Wrap element…,

    • from the toolbar select Tools>Wrap element… or

    • use the keyboard shortcut Alt+w.

  3. Select from the menu that appears the element (e.g. Part) that you want to wrap the provisions with.

Selecting provisions to wrap

To select the provisions you want you can either:

  • Select the provisions in the structure view - see Using the structure view.

  • Highlight the provisions in the Editor by dragging your cursor from the beginning to the end of them (or vice versa).

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  • Lawmaker will only show the elements that you can validly wrap the selection in. This will depend on the document type and the provisions you have selected but can also depend on the parent provisions, e.g. you can only wrap provisions in a Chapter if they are already within a Part. You can’t wrap provisions in an element they are already wrapped with, e.g. provisions already within a cross-heading cannot be wrapped in a cross-heading.

  • To wrap provisions, Lawmaker will take a lock on the parent of those provisions. If it can’t get a lock (because someone else is editing the parent) then you won’t be able to complete the wrap operation.

Selecting provisions to wrap

To select the provisions you want you can either:

  • Select the provisions in the structure view - see Using the structure view.

  • Highlight the provisions in the Editor by dragging your cursor from the beginning to the end of them (or vice versa).

Wrap options

The following tables summarise the wrap options dependent on your selection.

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In SI/SSIs

Selected provisions being wrapped(s)

Wrap option

Part

Group of parts

Chapter

Part

Section

Part

Chapter

Sub-section

Part

Chapter

Section

Cross heading

Part

Chapter

Section

Sub-section

Regulation (or article etc.)

Part

Chapter

Section

Sub-section

Cross-heading

Schedule paragraph

Part

Chapter

Section

Sub-section

Cross-heading

How to unwrap provisions

You can unwrap provisions

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Place your cursor in the provision you wish to remove through an ‘unwrap’ function:by:

  • Right-clicking on the grouping level provision you want to remove in the Structure view and selecting Unwrap element

  • Right-clicking on the provision provisions in the Structure view or Editor view, orEditor and selecting Unwrap element

  • Using the keyboard short-cut shortcut Alt+e

  • Select ‘Unwrap element’

The system will attempt to acquire a lock on the appropriate document fragment if it hasn’t got one already before it This will remove the grouping level provision from the document, leaving behind the child provisionsAs well as ‘wrap’ it is possible to ‘unwrap’ provisions.  This is when you want to remove a higher-level grouping provision e.g. a part which contains a set of sections/regulations, without deleting the sections/regulations. An ‘unwrap’ operation can be performed on if you unwrap a Part then the Part will be deleted, but not any sections within the Part.

You can unwrap the following provisions:

  • Group of partsParts

  • Part

  • Chapter

  • Sections (for SIs Section (SI/SSIs only)

  • Sub-sections (for SIs section (SI/SSIs only)

  • Cross heading

  • Sch Part

  • Sch Chapter

  • Sch Cross heading

  • Sch Sections (for SIs only)

  • Sch Sub-sections (for SIs only)-heading

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Hints and tips

If you unwrap a part and there is already a part left in the document, the provisions that were in the removed part will move into the remaining part

If the grouping level being unwrapped has siblings:

  • If it was the first sibling – the child provisions will be automatically moved into the second sibling

  • if it was second or later sibling – the child provisions will be automatically moved into the previous grouping level sibling

If you are in the middle of unwrapping a sequence of higher-level grouping elements, you might trigger the validation rule (causing red underlining) e.g. removing a Part which contained Chapters.  If you continue unwrapping the Chapters, this will cancel the validation rule.

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