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| 1 | As an OPC user, setup a test Bill project
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| 2 | 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 |
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| 3 | As an OPC user, create some amendments in the LoDA Drafting and editing amendments Create at least three amendments, so you can test other features (like ‘bulk update status’) in later steps. Make sure your amendments are explicitly referring to clauses and schedules - this will allow you to test the Order of Consideration later. Examples of the formatting and phrasing of Lords amendments can be found in this PDF: Digital Markets Bill: Lords amendment list
| 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 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 |
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| 4 | 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) |
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| 5 | 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 |
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| 6 | 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 |
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| 7 | Turn 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 |
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| 8 | Change 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, Both drop-down lists contain suggestions for Lords names On clicking Update, chosen names appear in the main Editor window above the relevant amendment |
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| 9 | GenerateAs an OPC user, place some amendments On Hold | Able to put amendments On Hold Unable to Submit an amendment which is On hold |
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| 10 | As an OPC user, generate PDF of Lords amendment LoDA with D-Numbers Expand |
| 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 |
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| 1011 | As an OPC user, Submit Lords amendments from the LoDA
| 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 |
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| 1112 | 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 |
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| 1213 | 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 |
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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'
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Undoing an amendment status/managing lifecycle events
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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 Save the list |
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Generating a Lords Daily Sheet (incl. unnumbered supplementary sheets)
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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
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Creating an Order of Consideration
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In the generated Daily Sheet, the amendments are sorted according to the OoC
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In the PDF generated in the next step, the List Number and Version appear in the footer
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PDF version generatedGreen success toastie appears on the List 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
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Publish Lords Daily Sheet
Publishing UK amendment lists (incl. ping pong lists)
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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’
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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)
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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 in the past for the cut-off time (i.e. before you Tabled the amendments created in the previous steps) 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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A placeholder note appears above the amendment
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Able to use the Quick Filter to filter on Amendment Status
Able to use the main filter to filter on:
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Generating a Lords Running List
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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’
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On the Amendment Workspace tab, create a new LoDA; ensure Stage is set to ‘Committee’ In the Editor, press Enter to bring up the CCA and select Amendment to Amendment Use the following example text to populate the placeholders: (in the italic note) As an amendment to the amendment in the name of Lord Purvis of Tweed to Clause 5, page 2, line 33, printed on sheet HL Bill 128(a) Create another amendment-to-amendment and populate with the following example text: (in the italic note) As an amendment to the amendment in the name of Lord Purvis of Tweed to Schedule 3, page 112, line 33, printed on sheet HL Bill 128(a) Create a third amendment-to-amendment and populate with the following example text: (in the italic note) As an amendment to amendment 2 Save the list From the Amendment Information panel in the Editor, use the Bulk update statuses button to Submit and then Table the amendments Save the list again |
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
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A Lords Marshalled List opens in the Editor containing all the tabled amendments
The amendments are numbered
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Able to update star status from the modal
Updated stars display in the Editor
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Generating and viewing a PDF Publishing UK amendment lists (incl. ping pong lists)
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On the Official Lists tab, from the Actions menu next to your Marshalled List, select Generate PDF and generate a PDF of the list; ensure ‘Record snapshot version’ is ticked Expand the list of snapshots below your Marshalled List Click the Actions menu next to the PDF entry Select Publish |
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’
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From the Amendment Manager tab, open a temporary list of all Tabled amendments In the Editor, expand the Amendment Status pane on the right Record outcomes against the amendments using the Next/Previous buttons and the Tabled/Rejected buttons Save the list |
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
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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
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a Manuscript Amendment List containing a new amendment
Generating a Lords Manuscript List (used for numbered supplementary sheets)
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On the Amendment Workspace tab, create a new Traditional LoDA Draft a simple amendment and save the list Submit the list Table the amendment; save and close the Editor From the Amendment Manager tab, select the amendment you just drafted Open the Amendment Actions menu and select ‘Create Official List’ In the modal, pick ‘Lords Manuscript List’ as the list type and Create the list |
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)
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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’
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Add additional text to the official Lords lists
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Able to add new paragraphs to the front and back covers
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Applying amendments as a Lords user
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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
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From the Project tab, update Document information on the new working version containing the amendments Update the Version rubric to ‘As amended in Committee’ Generate a PDF of this version; ensure ‘Line numbering’ is ticked Publish the PDF snapshot |
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
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From the Project tab, duplicate the last published version of your Bill and label it ‘Commons copy’ or a similar title Generate another PDF, this time make sure the option ‘Generate as House Bill’ is ticked Share the working version with the House of Commons Login as a HoC user, duplicate this shared copy Update the Document Information for this version: >Update Version rubric to 'As Brought From the Lords' >Update the ‘Brought from date’ >Under ‘Printed by’ pick the House of Commons Open the version in the Editor Re-insert the Front and Back covers Generate a PDF of this version; ensure ‘Record snapshot’ is ticked Close the Editor From the Project tab, click the Actions menu next to the PDF snapshot version you just created and select Publish |
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]
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As an OPC user, create a new LoDA against the As Brought from the Lords version
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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 brought from the Lords" version House: "House of Commons" Stage: “Committee” Specify an unique List name and select a Proposer Click Create |
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
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Applying amendments (& resolving cross references)
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As an OPC user, create some amendments in the LoDA
Drafting and editing amendments Drafting UK amendments
Create at least three amendments, so you can test other features (like ‘bulk update status’) in later steps.
Make sure your amendments are explicitly referring to clauses and schedules - this will allow you to test the Order of Consideration later.
Examples of the formatting and phrasing of Commons amendments can be found in this PDF: Commons PBC amendments to the Digital Markets Bill
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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 - amendment to amendment Save the list and close the Editor |
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
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On the Amendment Workspace tab, from the Actions menu next to your LoDA Select ‘Duplicate version’ Assign a label to your copy and click Create |
List is duplciated and appears on the Amendment workspace tab against the same bill version
Abe to open the new list in the Editor
List contains the same amendments from the copied list, including Dnums
Note changes made to amendments on the duplicated list will be reflected in the original list
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Managing proposers and supporters
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Open a LoDA in the Editor Click on proposer's name in the LoDA to bring up the Manage members modal Choose a new Proposer and add one or two supporters Save and close the modal Save the list |
Able to update proposer and supporter information for amendments drafted in the LoDA
In the Manage members modal, both drop-down lists contain suggestions for Commons MPs' names
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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 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
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As an OPC user, Submit Commons amendments from a LoDA; in the Submit amendments modal mark them as ‘Government amendments’
Also test commenting on amendments and flagging amendments
Submitting amendments Preview and comment on amendments Flagging amendments
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Login as a HoC user From the Amendment Manager select the amendments submitted in the previous step From the Amendment Actions menu, click ‘Create temporary list’ |
Able to view OPC amendments in the Amendment Manager tab
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Saved LoDA is visible on the Amendment Workspace tab
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Open the newly created LoDA in the Editor Click on an amendment and select 'Amendment' from the breadcrumb Press Ctrl+c on your keyboard to copy it Place your cursor in another amendment Press Ctrl+v to paste the amendment Save the list |
Amendment is pasted as a new amendment, with no D-num assigned to it
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Able to mark all amendments in the LoDA as ‘Ready for publishing'
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Able to renumber amendments from the specified starting number in the Editor
OPC amendments which were marked as government amendments will have Gov before their number
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Creating, managing and updating official amendment lists
House of Commons amendment list logic
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On the Amendment Manager tab From the Amendment Actions menu Select ‘Create Official List’ Pick the ‘As brought from the Lords’ bill version In the modal, select ‘Commons Marshalled List’ Select the Stage ‘Committee Stage’ Pick today’s date Add a list name Click Create In the Editor, from the Tools menu, select ‘Update list’ |
Empty Marshalled List opens in the Editor, in a new tab
Relevant rubrics are present at the start of the List; compare with this PDF: digitalmarkets_day_pbc_0711.pdf (parliament.uk)
On clicking ‘Update list’, all amendments marked ‘Ready for publishing’ are added to the list and can be viewed in the editor
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Inserting and deleting motions and resolutions
Converting a resolution into an Order in a Commons Marshalled List
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With the Marshalled List open in the Editor Bring up the CCA and add a Motion, Motion to Amend, Resolution, and Order Add some text to the placeholders Save the list Right-click on the Resolution and select the option to ‘Convert to Order’ |
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Able to use the CCA in the Editor to insert motions into the list
Converting a resolution into an Order removes it from the list and a new order (containing the resolution content) is inserted at the end of the amendment list (before the Withdrawn Amendment section)
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Create a normal Commons LoDA (e.g. select House "Commons" and Stage "Committee Stage") Insert three Amendments to amendments by selecting 'Amendment to amendment' from the insert menu Type the following 3 types of a2a rubrics into these amendments Save the LoDA Open the previous marshalled list and run update list After the list populates, save the list |
New amendments are added to the Marshalled list
Amendments which appear in the updated Marshalled list are marked with a black star
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Check PDF formatting: compare with digitalmarkets_day_pbc_0615.pdf (parliament.uk)
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Updating/populating a list with amendments
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Open the duplicated list in the Editor From the Tools menu, select ‘Update List’ In the modal, pick today’s date for both fields: “Date” and “White star date” Click Update Save the list Generate a PDF of the list |
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The PDF version displays the white stars against the same amendments
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Significant version created on the Official Lists tab after sharing
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Able to update the outcome of each amendment using the buttons
After clicking the button, the decision block displays that outcome
Able to change the text in the decision block by typing into the 'decision' field on the right-hand panel
On saving, the changes are saved
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Generating an Amendment List (including Proceedings, ping pong lists and reason documents)
Empty Proceedings document opens in the Editor, in a new tab
Relevant rubrics are present at the start of the List; compare with this PDF: digitalmarkets_rpro_pbc_0711 (parliament.uk)
On clicking ‘Update list’, all amendments with outcomes recorded against them are added to the list and can be viewed in the Editor
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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
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