Ping Pong Test Script

Create new bill project (don’t worry about the bill content, a couple of short sections is enough – we're not testing applying amendments or anything that involves the bill content)

Generate PDF & Publish the bill as "As brought from the Lords" bill version

In a LoDA:

Draft 4 amendments in a LoDA: add 2 x new clause amendments that are over 5 lines long and 2 x page-line amendment

Add explanatory statements

Add supporters

Number the amendments

Submit, table & set to ‘ready for publishing’

Record outcomes against these amendments (use ‘agreed’)
Save and close the list

On the Amendment Manager tab:

Filter the Amendment Manager by ‘All agreed’

Select all using the top check box

Select “Amendment Actions > Move/copy to a different stage”

In the dialog box:

Select ‘Copy amendments to a different stage

Select ‘stage’ = “Ping Pong” and

Leave bill version at ‘As brought from the Lords’

From the Amendment Manager tab:

Select “Amendment Actions > Generate Official List

Select “Consolidated List of Amendments” at the bottom and select “Commons Amendments” in the dialog box that appears

When it opens in the Editor:

reword the new clause amendment instructions in the Lords style i.e. “After

Clause 2, insert the following new Clause—”.

Insert interstitial headings from the insert menu before the new clause amendments e.g. “After Clause 2” and reorder the amendments in the order they appear in the bill

Save changes and run Tools > Renumber Amendments

Save changes and close the list

From the Official Lists tab

Find the green, editable version of the CLoA you just created

Select Actions > Share version and select House of Lords

Find the project that was shared with you

Open the Official Lists tab

Duplicate the shared CLoA

Open in the Editor and:

Update the legend in the top of the list with bill number

Open ‘Document Information’ in r-h panel and add bill number e.g. HL Bill 12

Add printed date

Save changes

From the Official List tab

Generate PDF & Publish

Open CLoA and check that locks on amdts have been removed

Refresh browser and check that there is a new ping pong bill version in the dropdown menu e.g. “Pingpong HL Bill 12”

From the Amendment Workspace:

Create a LoDA, selecting Ping Pong as the stage

In the Editor:

Draft a pp motion for each amendment on the Consolidated List

Select e.g. “PP Motion - agree” and “PP Motion - disagree” and “PP Motion - amendment in lieu”.

For the amendment in lieu motion, insert some page-line amendments (“pp Amendment – page-line”)

Ensure at least one pp amendment has a quoted structure with more than 5 lines so we can test line numbering further down the test cases

Insert an amendment heading before a couple of the ping pong amendments (right-click > Insert amendment heading)

Update the empty placeholders with the proposer and amendment numbers (leave the motion nums empty) (you can use ‘Tools > Update Members...) to update the proposer of ping pong motions.

Submit the amendments using bulk update status in ‘Amendment Status’ r-h panel

From the Amendment Manager tab:

Select all submitted amendments

Open in a temporary list:

Table all the amendments

Save and close the temporary list

From the Official Lists tab:

Select “Amendment Actions > Generate Official List

Select “Lords Daily Sheet” select “Ping Pong” in the dialog box for stage

In the Editor:

Check all submitted motions appear and are not numbered

Update the title by typing “Commons Amendments” to the end of the second paragraph of text i.e. “ON CONSIDERATION OF COMMONS AMENDMENTS”

Check that the back cover title is updated automatically with the Commons amendment text you just added

Check you can move the pp amendments in the structure view to change their order within the parent pp motion

Check that you can see the instruction of the ping pong amendments rather than just “amendment 1” which was a change brought in with v14

Should be sorted in order of the amendments they relate to e.g. the motion to Commons amendment 1 would come first.

Update Document Information r-h panel with version “(a)” and wait for spinner to refresh the page

Save and generate a PDF

Footer should show “HL Bill 12(a)” at the bottom left (i.e. bill number followed by the version in italics)

PP motion instruction text should be in bold in the PDF and associated pp amendments should not be in bold

From the Official Lists tab:

Toggle the view of snapshot versions and publish the PDF Snapshot for the Daily Sheet you just created

From the Amendment Workspace tab:

Create another LoDA selecting stage = Ping Pong (note that selecting a proposer won’t do anything at ping pong stage)

In the Editor:

Insert “PP Motion - amendment to amendment” from the insert menu
Update the empty placeholders with a commons amendment number (that exists in the CLoA) and a proposer and add text e.g. “Line 3, after “asdf” insert “asdfasd”

Copy the amendment (selecting ‘motion’ from the breadcrumb: it’s a motion in XML terms, but called an ‘amendment’ in business terms as it’s an ‘amendment to amendment’) and paste it 2 more times into the LoDA

Update the other 2 amendments to point to different lines and include a quoted structure in one

Use “Tools > Update Members” to bulk update all proposers to a new proposer to check that it works for ping pong motions
Save

Use bulk update to move from draft to submitted and from submitted to tabled in the Amendment Status right-hand panel

Save and close the LoDA