Introduction
Proposers and supporters for amendments and ping pong motions can be easily updated through a dialogue box giving you the option to select from the list of current Members from Parliament’s databasethe relevant parliament or house.
How to add/update proposer and/or supporters
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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”,
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In the Manage proposers and supporters dialogue box you can add, update, re-order or delete Members' names as required.
When you finished, click Update button
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How to paste a supporter block into an amendment that doesn't already have supporters
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Copy the supporter block from an amendment
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Place your cursor in any of the supporter names
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in the selected amendment
Select Supporter block
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from the breadcrumb which will highlight all the supporters
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Copy the supporters (ctrl + c or right-click and select 'copy')
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Paste the supporters into your selected amendment
Place your cursor in the num element of the amendment you want to paste your supporters into (that doesn't already have supporters)
Click on your left arrow key
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5 times to move your cursor through the hidden XML tags
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until it ends up in the
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Proposer Block element
Use keyboard short cut Ctrl + V to paste the supporter block into your amendment
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How to delete all supporters
If you want to get rid of all supporters on an amendment,
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place your cursor in any of the supporter names in the selected amendment
Click on Supporters block in the breadcrumb
The system will highlight all the
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supporters in the Editor
Click on
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backspace to remove all supporters from the amendment
How to change the order of supporters
Open the Manage proposers and supporters dialogue box by clicking on the blue proposer name in the amendment
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list
Use the left-click on your mouse and hold it down as you drag the supporter to the new position
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.
Place cursor in the ping pong amendment you wish to add sponsors to
Right-click and select Update Manage proposers and supporters
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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SP 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
Commons amendments only
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