Managing Proposers and Supporters (amendments incl. ping pong)

Introduction

Proposers and supporters can be updated through a dialogue box giving you the option to select from the list of current Members from Parliament’s database.

How to add/update proposer and/or supporters

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”,

The system will open a dialogue box

Add, update, re-order or delete Members' names as required.

When you finished, click Update button

The system will update the amendment with your specified proposer (and any supporters)

How to paste a supporter block into an amendment that doesn't already have supporters

First copy the supporter block from an amendment by placing your cursor in any of the supporter names and selecting "Supporter block" from the breadcrumb which will highlight all the supporters.

Use 'copy' (ctrl + c or right-click and select 'copy')

Now 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 4 times to move your cursor through the hidden XML tags so that it ends up in the 'Heading' element (check your breadcrumb, they should read "...>List body>Component>Amendment>Body>Heading)

Use keyboard short cut Ctrl + V to paste the supporter block into your amendment

The supporters should be visible now, under the proposer's name

How to delete all supporters

If you want to get rid of all supporters on an amendment, click on “Supporters block” on the breadcrumb,

The system will highlight all the “Supported by:…” text in the Editor

Click on ‘backspace’ to remove all supporters from the amendment

The system will update the amendment with the changes

Hints and Tips

When you are in a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) and you have inserted a new amendment after an existing amendment which had a proposer specified – the newly inserted amendment will only copy the proposer from the previous amendment. It will not copy the supporters if the previous amendment had supporters as well.

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

If you want to add proposers (including supporters) to ping pong amendments, these elements don't start by default with 'Proposer' elements. You will need to use the right-click approach (1b in the steps above) to access the 'Manage Members' dialogue box).