📘 Introduction
📚 Exercises
🛠️ Getting Started
Before you can create inline amendments, you will need a published version of the bill (download the XML file here )
The following steps will allow you to create the data required for this exercise.
Create a new project selecting Northern Ireland Bill and Executive Bill and providing the title [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill
Close the Editor after it loads using the Close Editor button.
From the Project tab, select Document Actions > Upload document—
Specify a folder As Introduced
Specify a version description As Introduced
Select the downloaded Inline_amending_bill.xml file
Click on Upload button
Find the newly uploaded document version and select Actions > Update Document Information—
Update the Title to [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill
Click on Update button
Find the imported document on the Project tab and select Actions > Generate PDF
Click on the black triangle to the left of the imported bill version name to expand the view of snapshots
On the grey PDF snapshot version, select Actions > Publish version
The published version will appear on the right-hand side of the Project tab and a snapshot is created under the working version.
You now have a published version of a bill reading to start creating amendments inline.
✏️ Creating textual amendments (leave out, insert and substitute)
On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button
In the Create new list of draft amendments dialog box—
Type of amendment - select Inline
Bill version can be left as As Introduced
Select Consideration Stage for Stage
Add a unique list name e.g. Textual amendments
Click on the Create button
The inline document will open in the Editor in a new browser tab
Insert text amendments
Create a simple ‘insert' amendment by—
In Clause 2, within 44A—(1) of the inserted text, place your cursor after 'hotel' and click Enter to view the insert menu
Select Insert text to ensure your inserted text is correctly marked up
Within the text element which is surrounded by blue square brackets, type ‘a country mansion,’
Save your changes and watch a unique ID (Dnumber) assigned to it like this
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
A list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab with your first amendment displayed
Now recreate the following 3 new insert text amendments in your inline document
Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel
Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created
Type of amendment | Traditional amendment |
|---|---|
Example of an amendment with ordinality |  |
Example of inserting text at the start of a provision |  |
Example of inserting text immediately before punctuation (before the ending full-stop) |  |
Leave out text amendments
Create a simple ‘leave out' amendment by—
In Clause 3, within 44C—(1) of the inserted text, highlight the text 'in relation' and in the hovering tool bar, click on Leave Out
Save your changes
Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel
Click on the View Traditional Amendments button
A list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab with your first amendment displayed
Now recreate the following 2 new leave out text amendments in your inline document
Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel
Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created
Type of amendment | Traditional amendment |
|---|---|
Example of an amendment with ordinality |  |
Example of leaving out text from start of a line |  |
FINISH HERE!
Substitute text amendments
Create a simple ‘leave out’ amendment—
Substituting text in and around marked up cross references
Substituting from the start of a provision
Substituting text in the long title