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Where you need to create multiple quoted structures, one after the other, to represent several discrete textual amendments, e.g. where you are specifying that several definitions should be inserted “at the appropriate place”.
When you are creating a complex textual amendment that starts with a lower level provision, e.g. a sub-paragraph, but continues with a higher level provision, e.g. a paragraph. In that case, the first quoted structure will contain the sub-paragraph and an adjacent quoted structure will contain the paragraph, and the start/end quotation marks will need to be adjusted appropriately in the Update quoted structure properties dialog box.
(LDAPP-4508)
Validation
LDAPP-4554 | Allow filtering of Document check messages depending on new categorisation |
LDAPP-4548 | Create a separate right-hand panel to show schema errors |
LDAPP-4544 | Fix the quick-fix links in the validation tooltips which appear in the Editor |
LDAPP-4477 | Update schematron rules for v.18 |
Accessibility and misc
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LDAPP-4509
Fix accessibility issues with login
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LDAPP-4540
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Add banner to environment
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LDAPP-4503
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Investigate upgrading Oxygen to v.26.1.0
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LNI-142
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Improve 'Update Member' behaviour to handle endpoint downtime
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LDAPP-4513
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Update Docker image build process to use a later version of Tomcat and JDK 17 for Oxygen
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LDAPP-4555
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Update the link to the user support portal which appears in the top-right menu
Origins and destinations
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LDAPP-4528
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Expand/collapse all origin notes in the Editor
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LDAPP-4520
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Change approach to Origin notes to use //authorialNote
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LDAPP-4529
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Display Origin information in a generated PDF
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LDAPP-4325
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Prototype generate of table of origins
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LDAPP-4535
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As part of ongoing work to improve how validation works, this release contains a few changes:
Errors that relate to the underlying Akoma Ntoso XML schema now appear in their own panel XML Warnings. We’re working generally to reduce the possibility of these errors appearing in the first place but in the meantime we’re planning to issue specific guidance to help users when these errors occur. (LDAPP-4548)
In the Document Checks panel, we’ve changed the phase categories to “Drafting”, “Preflight”, “References” and “Spaces”. These are all on by default but you can deselect any of them temporarily to help you focus on a specific category. The “References” category covers all the errors relating to cross-references and external references. The “Spaces” category covers the leading and trailing space errors. (LDAPP-4554)
The “quickfix” links in the validation errors now work both in the Document Checks panel and in the tooltip that appears when you hover over the affected provision in the Editor. (LDAPP-4544)
A few minor updates have been made to the validation rules themselves. (LDAPP-4477)
See Document checks - validating your document
Accessibility and misc
Accessibility of login screen
We’ve improved the accessibility of the login screen. (LDAPP-4509)
Temporary banners
We can now add temporary banners to the different Lawmaker environment to notify users of upcoming changes and other important information. (LDAPP-4540)
Oxygen upgrade
We’ve upgraded Oxygen (used by the Editor) to version 26.1.0 to get the benefit of a few bug fixes that the upgrade included. (LDAPP-4503, LDAPP-4513)
Integration with parliaments' members data
We’ve made the process for obtaining up-to-date member data from the different parliaments' open data APIs more robust so it can cope with any of the APIs being unavailable for a short time. (LNI-142)
Support portal link
We’ve updated the link to the support portal in the menu that appears when you click on your username in the top right of the screen. It now points to https://support.lawmaker.legislation.gov.uk. (LDAPP-4555)
Origins and destinations
Version 18 includes some beta features in relation to the ongoing work to enable the generation of tables of origins and tables of destinations. This functionality is generally only available for Bills with a “Consolidation Bill” subtype.
The format of origin notes have been changed so they are more like footnotes and behave the same in the Editor. The origin notes can now be tagged if the acronyms used in the notes have been defined. (LDAPP-4528, LDAPP-4520, LDAPP-4529, LDAPP-4325, LDAPP-4535)