Skip to end of metadata
Go to start of metadata

You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.

Compare with Current View Page History

« Previous Version 5 Next »

Introduction

For the time being, the Scottish Parliament website will be continuing to publish PDF renditions of the bill.  These will be supplied to the website through existing channels rather than a direct, electronic interface from Lawmaker.  The same applies to UK bills, there is no direct link from publishing a bill in Lawmaker to publishing a bill on UK Parliament’s website.  As such, ‘publishing’ in this context is merely marking the bill as having been published.  You will need to have generated a PDF that you are happy with before you can mark the bill as having been published.

There is currently no direct link from publishing a Bill in Lawmaker to publishing a Bill on the UK Parliament’s or Scottish Parliament’s website.

How to publish a bill

  1. From the ‘Project’ tab: expand the working version that you wish to publish to view the snapshot versions underneath

  2. Find the PDF snapshot that will be used for publishing on Parliament’ website and select Publish version from the drop-down menu

  3. The system will present a warning message, making sure you have selected the right PDF to mark as having been published

  4. Select Publish button to publish the chosen bill version associated to the PDF

  5. The system will:

    1. create a significant version marked as “Published”, visible to all users in the system containing the PDF and the bill version that produced it

    2. create a snapshot version in the working document snapshot series containing the PDF and version of the bill that was published

Hints and tips

  • All other users of the system can view the significant version produced. 

  • Other users will be able to open the bill version in the Editor (in read-only format), view the PDF, generate their own PDF (if they wanted to select different presentation options), download a zip file containing the PDF and bill XML or generate a duplicate version.

  • You will still need to send the actual PDF (Scottish Parliament users) or ZIP file (UK Parliament users) to the web/publishing team according to existing processes to publish the bill on the website.  Please make sure it is the same PDF that you marked as having been ‘published’ in the system to ensure data integrity between Lawmaker and the website whilst there is no electronic interface as yet.

  • No labels