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How to add/update proposer and/or supporters

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  1. Either:

    • Click on the proposer's name (or placeholder element if no name has been specified yet), or

    • Right-click on the proposer (or supporter names) and select “Update Proposers/Supporters”,

The system will open a dialogue box

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  1. In the Manage proposers and supporters dialogue box you can add, update, re-order or delete Members' names as required.

  2. When you finished, click Update button

The system will update the amendment with your specified proposer (and any supporters)

How to paste a supporter block into an amendment that doesn't already have supporters

First copy Copy the supporter block from an amendment by placing

  1. Place your cursor in any of the supporter names

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  1. in the selected amendment

  2. Select Supporter block

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  1. from the breadcrumb which will highlight all the supporters

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  1. Copy the supporters (ctrl + c or right-click and select 'copy')

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Paste the supporters into your selected amendment

  1. Place your cursor in the num element of the amendment you want to paste your supporters into (that doesn't already have supporters)

  2. Click on your left arrow key

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  1. 5 times to move your cursor through the hidden XML tags

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  1. until it ends up in the

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  1. Proposer Block element

  2. Image Added
  3. Use keyboard short cut Ctrl + V to paste the supporter block into your amendment

The supporters should be visible now, under the proposer's name

How to delete all supporters

  1. If you want to get rid of all supporters on an amendment,

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  1. place your cursor in any of the supporter names in the selected amendment

  2. Click on Supporters block in the breadcrumb

  3. Image Added
  4. The system will highlight all the

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  1. supporters in the Editor

  2. Click on

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  1. backspace to remove all supporters from the amendment

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The system will update the amendment with the changes

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How to change the order of supporters

  1. Open the Manage proposers and supporters dialogue box by clicking on the blue proposer name in the amendment list

  2. Use the left-click on your mouse and hold it down as you drag the supporter to the new position

  3. Release the left-click and the supporter will be moved to its new position

How to add proposers to a ping pong amendment that doesn’t already have one

Ping pong amendments (that sit within the ping pong motion) do not automatically have a proposer. Sometimes, particularly in the Commons, different sponsors need to be recorded against different ping pong amendments within a ping pong motion.

  1. Place cursor in the ping pong amendment you wish to add sponsors to

  2. Right-click and select Update Manage proposers and supporters

  3. The Manage proposers and supporters dialogue box will open allowing you to add a proposers and any supporters to that ping pong amendment

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  • When you are in a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) and you have inserted a new amendment after an existing amendment which had a proposer specified – the newly inserted amendment will only copy the proposer from the previous amendment.  It will not copy the supporters if the previous amendment had supporters as well.

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titleSP Amendments Only

the system will automatically populate the text “Supported by:” if you add supporters to an amendment

Proposers and supporters should only be added/updated using the dialogue box as this will ensure Members’ IDs taken from Parliament’s data is correctly captured in the amendment XML – useful for downstream applications consuming the amendment data.

It is possible to change the order of supporters in an amendment by clicking on a supporter name and dragging it to the new location in the list of supporter names

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titleCommons Amendments Only

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