Publishing an amendment list
- Matt Lynch
- Sarah Cogan
- Estelle Holmes (Deactivated)
Introduction
'Publishing’ in this context will make the amendment list available on the PDR (Published Document Repository) which will be available to down-stream applications who have access to our published data (e.g. Parliament websites). You will need to have generated a PDF that you are happy with before you can mark the amendment list as having been published.
How to publish an amendment list
From the ‘Official Lists’ tab: expand the working version that you wish to publish to view the snapshot versions underneath
Find the PDF snapshot that will be used for publishing on Parliament’ website and select Actions > Publish version from the drop-down list
A publish confirmation dialog box will appear, showing whether the list and associated amendments can be published. If any amendments fail the validation checks, they will be listed in the report under the validation check they failed allowing you to make the necessary updates before republishing.
Select Publish button to publish the chosen amendment list
Lawmaker will:
create a significant version marked as “Published”, visible to all users in the system containing the PDF and the amendment list version that produced it
create a snapshot version in the working document snapshot series containing the PDF and version of the amendment list that was published
make this version of the document available on the PDR (Published Document Repository)
Hints and tips
All other users of the system can view the significant version produced.
Other users will be able to open the amendment list in the Editor (in read-only format), view the PDF or generate their own PDF (if they wanted to select different presentation options).
Once an amendment list has been published, all amendments on that list will be visible to all users in the system in their 'Amendments' tab but in read-only format. Only the parliament that published the version of the bill being amended will have read/write access to the submitted amendments.