This is a major release containing a range of new features, significant enhancements to the referencing functionality, a new beta feature to generate citation footnotes in SIs and some bug fixes.
It was released on [20 21 August 2024].
References to other provisions and documents
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The text of a reference can no longer still be directly edited in the Editor but you can also use the Edit reference option in the toolbar to update the text and metadata fields if necessary (the ability to edit the reference text directly will be removed in the next release).
You can also trigger an update of the reference, mark it to be ignored or remove the reference mark-up from the toolbar.
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Lawmaker v.17 includes a new beta feature to automatically generate citation legislative history footnotes for external references in an SI or SSI.
This feature relies on the data from legislation.gov.uk to generate footnotes that contain summarised amendment history of the referenced provisonprovision.
See (add page for citation footnotes Citation footnotes (legislative history footnote) for more on this.
Church Measures
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Quote marks automatically appear but can be removed or altered if necessary.
See Quoted Text.
Sorting amendments by marshalled order on the Amendment Manager Tab
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The previous “OoC sort” function has been removed.
See Sorting amendments on the Amendment Manager Tab.
Scripted marshalled list improvements
Some limited improvements to the functionality for generating Scripted Marshalled Lists in the Scottish Parliament have been implemented.
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When amendments are submitted directly from a list of draft amendments, the receiving organisation (e.g. the Commons or Scottish Parliament) will also receive a copy of the list (accessible from the Amendment Workspace tab) so they can see the order in which they appeared on that list and to help them manage the amendment checking and tabling process.
Uploading amendment list XML to create new amendments
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Amendment list XML can be downloaded by selecting ‘Download ZIP file’ from the Actions menu next to any amendment list on the Amendment Workspace or Official Lists tabs. The ZIP file contains XML which can then be uploaded to any other bill project to recreate the amendments from that list as new draft amendments.
See Uploading amendment lists to create new amendments.
Editing fragments of a schedule
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In consequence of this change, the structure view now shows the grouping levels within a schedule by default.
See Opening and editing a portion of document and Locking document fragments/multi-user editing.
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Schedules created in documents before this version is released will not immediately be fragmented in the new way - they will remain as single fragments that can only be edited and locked at that level. However, as soon as the document is saved again after this release, all schedules in the document will be fragmented at the grouping level. |
SI improvements and changes
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Bug fixes
SI/SSIs
Issue key | Status | Summary | User support ticket |
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SPT-1703 | Done | Error Fixed a problem that occurred when copying an SI document to another project when SI doesn't if the document didn’t have enacting text | |
SPT-1700 | Done | Smart paste of SI prov1 with auto-renumber ON strips trailing full stop from numFixed a bug where pasting text consisting of SI regulations or articles into Lawmaker resulted in the full stop being deleted from the regulation number if auto-renumber was switched on | |
SPT-1695 | Done | Updated SI subject heading listthe list of subject headings available in Lawmaker | |
SPT-1689 | Done | SI Paragraph (1) spacing differs in quoted structure as starting elementFixed an issue with the spacing of SI paragraphs when there are first provision within a quoted structure | |
SPT-1679 | Done | Specific Fixed an issue where certain wordings of SI/SSI dates still causes line breakwould result in the date being split over two lines | |
SPT-1676 | Done | Procedure Fixed an issue resulting in the procedure of SI not updating on the Project tab or Dashboard is locked in after creation and unchangeable | |
SPT-1671 | Done | Add Two new organisations added to Lawmaker: OFGEM and OFCOM as new organisations |
Editor
Issue key | Status | Summary | User support ticket | ||
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SPT-1713 | InReview | Editor fails to revert to using Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause the Editor, and the CCA in particular, to behave incorrectly (due to Oxygen failing to use the correct document filter | after an unknown action in the editor results in a failure to switch back to the LDAPPDocumentFilter- LDAPPDocumentFilter) | ||
SPT-1711 | QA Ready | Oxygen sometimes fails Fixed an issue where Oxygen would sometimes fail to retrieve the XML from the server for operations like auto-save, save and structure view updates | |||
SPT-1706 | Done | The Fixed an issue where lots of spelling errors in a document could cause the "A problem has occurred" | modal error to appears | in documents with lots of spelling errors.. (Included in patch release 16.2.2.) | |
SPT-1702 | Done | Performance Fixed a performance issue in Editor (getElementByGuid ( Oxygen client-side code). (included Included in patch release 16.2.1) | |||
SPT-1701 | Done | TNA - Screen Jumps On Paste | Fixed an issue in the Editor which cause the screen to jump to a different location when the paste operation was triggered. | ||
SPT-1699 | Done | Poor performance Fixed a performance issue in the Editor when copying a reasonable number of provisions at one time. (included Included in patch release 16.2.1.) | |||
SPT-1683 | Done | Fixed an issue with the Mark as done toggle in the Review panel not working in certain cases. | |||
SPT-1672 | Done | Issues with Fixed an issue which occurred when rejecting "surround" tracked changes in Oxygen v25which was introduced with Oxygen v.25.1 upgrade. | |||
SPT-1653 | QA Ready | Updates to document during a renumber operation result in strange document modifications | Fixed an issue that could cause a document to get corrupted if the user tries to edit a document while the renumber operation is progressing. | ||
SPT-1656 | Fixed an issue with Promote/Demote of closing words where it would unwrap inline formatting and footnotes. | ||||
SPT-1631 | Fixed an issue with the Copy Provisions to another document feature where provisions selected in a certain order would not be pushed correctly. | ||||
SPT-1616 | Fixed an issue that prevented schedules being moved in the structure view in some cases. | ||||
SPT-1611 | Fixed an issue that caused “A problem has occurred” message to appear in some cases when the user accepted tracked changes. (Included in patch release 16.2.1) | ||||
SPT-1609 | Fixed an issue which affected Cross-references inside tracked change deletions if the references in the provision were updated. |
PDFs
Issue key | Status | Summary | User support ticket |
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SPT-1696 | Done | Quoted structure in change track have incorrect indent | |
SPT-1693 | Done | Text in ukpga quoted structure //section/intro is not justified in PDF | |
SPT-1692 | Done | Page numbering broken from page 10 onwards in Scottish Parliamentary Amendment lists | |
SPT-1691 | Done | Empty paragraph element wrongly aligned in PDF | |
SPT-1682Done | Long hyperlinks (URLs) that are split across multiple lines have line spacing issues in the PDF and CSS issues in footnotes in the editor | ||
SPT-1558 | Done | Resolve PDF rendering issues caused by missing attributes on quotedStructures (ukl:docName and ukl:indent) |
Amendments
Issue key | Status | Summary | User support ticket |
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SPT-1690 | Done | Wrong placement of material dragged into containers in amendment QSs | |
SPT-1651 | Done | Auto-apply: amendments which leave out words after a Defined term can't be applied if the quotation marks on the defined term are included in the amendment instruction | |
SPT-1646Done | Extra spaces appear in certain substituting amendments when auto-applied to a bill version | ||
SPT-1633Done | Auto-applying amendments to rref elements sometimes results in too much text being included in the rref; original rref's href attributes also persist | ||
SPT-1632 | Done | Auto-applied amendment which inserts text beginning with punctuation after a <ref> element adds the text inside the <ref> when accepted | |
SPT-1266 | QA Ready | Side-lining on auto-applied insert section amendment goes down too far | |
Project tab and misc
Status
Summary
User support ticket
SPT- |
Done
ALL CAPS text is displayed with additional spacing in the Edit Portion dropdown
SPT-1665
Done
1608 | Moving an amendment in a LoDA using the Structure View with tracked changes turned on results in the amendment being duplicated | |
SPT-1541 | Auto-saved traditional amendments in an inline LoDA cannot be restored into the working version |
Document management (Project tab, comparison, permissions etc.)
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket | ||
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SPT-1662 | Done | Duplicating an 'Auto backup' snapshot results in the wrong XML content being retrieved - later changes are included in the duplicate | ||
SPT-1657 | Done | XML comparison functionality doesn't handle processing instructions appropriately1218 | User who first created document still has read-only access when their permissions are removed | |
SPT- |
Done
Empty paragraph element wrongly aligned in PDF
SPT-1656
Done
Promote/Demote of closing words unwraps inline formatting and footnotes
SPT-1648
1677 | ALL CAPS text is displayed with additional spacing in the Edit Portion dropdown | |
SPT-1648 | Opening an Edit portion document in parallel with others causes issues | |
SPT-1645 |
Done
When logging out with two Editor tabs open (one containing a portion of a version), it's not possible to 'Save all changes' in the 'Unsaved changes' modal | |
SPT- |
Done
1665 | Comparison output moves opening words into the wrong position on Scottish Bill | |
SPT-1657 | XML comparison functionality doesn't handle processing instructions appropriately | |
SPT-1627 |
Done
Incorrect comparison result when an x-ref has been updated within a <mod> |
SPT-1616
Done
Strange restrictions on using the Structure View to move a Schedule in a version of a bill where a New Schedule amendment has been applied
SPT-1611
Done
Oxygen exceptions occurring when a user accepts tracked change edits ("A problem has occurred") (included in patch release 16.2.1)
SPT-1609
Done
Cross references inside tracked change deletions are re-added without deleted markup after updating cross references in the provision
SPT-1608
Done
Moving an amendment in a LoDA using the Structure View with tracked changes turned on results in the amendment being duplicated
SPT-1541
QA Ready
Auto-saved traditional amendments in an inline LoDA cannot be restored into the working version
SPT-1218
Done
User who first created document still has read-only access when their permissions are removed
SPT-993
Done
API and misc
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket |
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SPT-993 | Updated authentication to the API to prevent api accounts being unnecessarily disabled |
Known issues
This section of the release note highlights any minor issues identified with the release that will be corrected in a future release:
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