Introduction
Sometimes you might only need to update a section or schedule or a subset of sections/schedules in a document. Or sometimes you might be working with other drafters in the same bill and only want to update the provisions that you are responsible for. Or sometimes the bill might be so large, that opening up the whole document creates performance issues. To address these various needs, we have made it possible to edit a portion of the document without needing to open the whole document.
How to edit a portion of document
- From the 'Project' tab, click on the 'Actions' drop-down menu for the working version you want to edit
- Select 'Edit portion of document'
- In the 'Edit portion of document' dialogue box, select the provisions you wish to edit
- Click on the 'Edit' button to open the selected provisions in the Editor
Hints and tips
- When you open a portion of the document in the Editor, the highest level provisions e.g. section or part, will have their numbers locked so that when you renumber the document, they do not get automatically updated. You can manually change these numbers if necessary but you will need to renumber the whole document if provisions not in your portion are going to be affected by these number changes
- If you already have locks on provisions in the document you are selecting, you will be forced to open these provisions so that you can save any detected unsaved changes from a previous editing session. As soon as the locks are released (upon Save) you can go back and open a smaller portion if desired.
- You must select provisions at the same grouping level e.g. you cannot select a part and then a subset of sections from another part. If this was your intention, the best way to achieve this would be to select all the sections inside the first part and then select the subset of sections from the other part.
- If you use an action that is run over the whole document (e.g. update x-ref or renumber) then it will only be applied to the 'whole document' that is in the Editor and not the whole bill/SI document.
- If you run 'Update x-ref' and there are cross references pointing to provisions not the Editor, these will be marked as 'invalid' as they couldn't be detected. It's best to run 'Update X-refs' if you know the target provisions are already in the Editor to avoid this.