UK Amendments Test Script (Lords starter)
- Edward Griffiths
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| 1 | As an OPC user, setup a test Bill project Login to Lawmaker as an OPC user From the Dashboard, click Create Select UK Public Bill > Government Bill Create some sections and Schedules in the Bill, using the Editor; include some real text and full sentences in those sections and schedule paragraphs so you can test the application of amendments later in the script Save and close the Editor (Alternatively, on the Project Tab, from the Document Actions menu, import a UK PGA from Legislation.gov.uk ) | Able to create a UKPGA Bill project
| Pass Fail (delete as appropriate) |
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| 2 | As an OPC user, create a Traditional List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) for House of Lords amendments Creating new amendments on a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) Login to Lawmaker as an OPC user Open the UK Bill project On the Amendment Workspace tab, click New In the modal, pick Traditional type of amendment list Bill version: "as introduced" version House: "House of Lords" Stage: “Committee” Specify an unique List name and select a Proposer Click Create | The Editor will be opened containing the draft list of amendments template And the Bill name will appear at the top of the template And the stage will match what I specified And the proposer will match what I specified | Pass Fail |
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| 3 | As an OPC user, create some amendments in the LoDA Drafting and editing amendments Create at least three amendments, so you can test other features (like ‘bulk update status’) in later steps. Make sure your amendments are explicitly referring to clauses and schedules - this will allow you to test the Order of Consideration later. Examples of the formatting and phrasing of Lords amendments can be found in this PDF: Digital Markets Bill: Lords amendment list With the LoDA open in the Editor, click inside the first 'Instruction' placeholder Press Enter and select an amendment from the Content Completion Assistant Repeat the preceding step to create the following types of amendments: - leave out clause or leave out schedule - new clause - new schedule - page-line - stand part motion - amendment to amendment Save and close the Editor | A new amendment appears in the Editor And there are custom placeholders for Page-line, New Clause, New Schedule, and Stand part amendments And the proposer is the same as the proposer of the previous amendment And an entry appears in the Structure view And when I click save, D numbers will be assigned to all my amendments And the D number assignment shows the user's organisation abbreviation, followed by a number that increases sequentially by 1 and has no leading zeros e.g. OPC1, OPC2 The amendments are also visible in the table on the Amendment Manager tab | Pass Fail |
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| 4 | Share the Bill with the House of Lords Sharing a document with another organisation From the Project Tab, click the Actions menu next to the working version of the Bill Click Share In the modal, select House of Lords from the drop-down Click Share | Able to share the Bill using the Share action Able to select House of Lords in the modal Able to view the Bill project as a House of Lords user (necessary for the next step of this script) | Pass Fail |
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| 5 | Login as a House of Lords user and create a published ‘As Introduced’ version of the bill Managing document information Preparing a bill for introduction Login to Lawmaker as a House of Lords user From the Dashboard, navigate to the Bill project From the Actions menu next to the significant version created in the previous step, select Duplicate; in the modal, create a new folder and give the duplicate a name, e.g. ‘bill as introduced’ Update the Document Information of the newly created working version (either from the Editor, or from the Actions menu next to your version on the Project Tab): change the Version rubric to ‘As Introduced’; ensure Printed by is set to the Lords Generate a PDF of this version; ensure ‘Line Numbering’ is ticked in the Generate PDF modal On the Project Tab, expand the snapshots below your version and click the Actions menu next to the PDF snapshot version; select Publish | A significant version is created The top-left drop-down filter on the ‘Amendment Workspace’ and ‘Amendment' Manager' tabs shows an ‘As Introduced’ version | Pass Fail |
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| 6 | Login as an OPC user and check that the amendments you drafted earlier are still visible on the Amendment Manager tab | Amendments are still visible on the Amendment Manager tab | Pass Fail |
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| 7 | As an OPC user, turn on/off line numbering for amendments Turn on/off line number on amendments (including ping pong motions) | For amendments where ‘add line numbers’ has been selected: line numbers appear every five lines For amendments where ‘no line numbers’ has been selected: no line numbers appear | Pass Fail |
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| 8 | As an OPC user, change the Proposer of a Lords amendment and add supporters | Able to bring up the Manage Proposers and Supporters modal Able to search for and select names in both fields Both drop-down lists contain suggestions for Lords names On clicking Update, chosen names appear in the main Editor window above the relevant amendment | Pass Fail |
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| 9 | As an OPC user, place some amendments On Hold | Able to put amendments On Hold Unable to Submit an amendment which is On hold | Pass Fail |
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| 10 | As an OPC user, generate PDF of Lords amendment LoDA with D-Numbers | PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab PDF shows the D-numbers of all the amendments | Pass Fail |
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| 11 | As an OPC user, Submit Lords amendments from the LoDA | Warning modal appears asking you to confirm that you want to submit the amendments Modal contains the option to ‘mark amendments as government amendments' On confirming, a progress bar appears After submission completes, the ‘Amendment information’ panel shows the Status as ‘Submitted’ for all amendments in the list If you are submitting from the Amendment Manager tab, a green success toastie should appear if the amendments were submitted successfully | Pass Fail |
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| 12 | As a HoL user, view submitted Lords amendments in ephemeral list | Editor opens, showing the selected amendments The amendments are editable | Pass Fail |
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| 13 | Table and Reject amendments from the ephemeral list | Able to view the ‘Tabled' and ‘Rejected’ buttons Able to click either button On clicking, the editor locks and a loading spinner briefly displays On saving, the ‘Status’ shown in the Amendment Status panel shows either Tabled or Rejected | Pass Fail |
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| 14 | Bulk update the other amendments' statuses Tabling UK amendments (incl. 'ready for publishing') | To update statuses in one go | After clicking Update, Editor briefly locks and loading spinner appears Green success toastie appears in the top-right of the screen After saving, the status of the amendments (in the Amendment Information panel) is now 'Tabled' | Pass Fail |
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| 15 | Update Lifecycle Event for one of the amendments | The status of the selected amendment (in the Amendment Information panel) changes to ‘Submitted’ | Pass Fail |
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| 16 | Create Lords Daily Sheet Generating a Lords Daily Sheet (incl. unnumbered supplementary sheets) | A Lords daily sheet will open in the Editor containing all the tabled amendments The amendments will not be numbered Amendments will be sorted according to the Lord's sort order; refer to the Manual for guidance: https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/64651345 | Pass Fail |
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| 17 | Move an amendment on a Lords Daily Sheet using the Structure View https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/9339303 | Editor is updated showing the amendment in the new location Structure view also updates | Pass Fail |
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| 18 | Create an Order of Consideration for Lords amendments https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526399 To test this functionality, some of the amendments you created in earlier steps must refer to numbered clauses and schedules. | Able to add and amend the Order of Consideration using the modal In the generated Daily Sheet, the amendments are sorted according to the OoC | Pass Fail |
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| 19 | Sort amendments by Order of Consideration on the 'Amendment Manager' tab | Amendments are sorted in the list according to the OoC | Pass Fail |
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| 20 | Update Daily Sheet Document Information | Able to edit values in the panel In the PDF generated in the next step, the List Number and Version appear in the footer 
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| 21 | Generate PDF of Lords Daily Sheet from the Official Lists tab | PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’
| Pass Fail | The user manual will need to be updated for v16 |
| 22 | Publish Lords Daily Sheet https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/60456974 | Publish version modal appears After confirming, a new significant version is created on the right-hand side Significant version’s label will be the version label of your list, prepended with the word ‘Published’ | Pass Fail |
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| 23 | Create Second Daily sheet with newly tabled amendments in it | A Lords Daily Sheet opens in the Editor The list contains only the amendments that weren't in the previous published list (i.e. just your new amendments) | Pass Fail |
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| 24 | Lords Daily sheet cut-off time test | A Lords Daily Sheet opens in the Editor The list does not contain the new amendments (because they were tabled after the cut-off time. | Pass Fail |
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| 25 | Add a note to Lords amendment https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526485 | A placeholder note appears above the amendment Able to type text into the placeholder Able to save the list | Pass Fail |
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| 26 | Use filters on Amendment Manager tab https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526453 | Able to use the Quick Filter to filter on Amendment Status Able to use the main filter to filter on:
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| 27 | Generate and publish a Lords Running List https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/65961985 | Editor opens showing the Running List Running List contains all amendments tabled so far (up until the cut-off date and time) Order of Consideration is listed in two columns on the first page After selecting ‘Publish’ from the Actions menu, the publish version modal appears After confirming, a new significant version is created on the right-hand side Significant version’s label will be the version label of your list, prepended with the word ‘Published’
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| 28 | Create amendments to amendments in a new LoDA (to test the parsing of amendment text) https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/60653569 | Able to create amendments to amendments After saving, the Amendment Information panel shows the following ‘Provision’ attribute for each amendment:
Page and line numbers are also populated for the first two amendments | Pass Fail |
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| 29 | Create a Lords Marshalled List https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/65961999 | A Lords Marshalled List opens in the Editor containing all the tabled amendments The amendments are numbered Amendments are sorted according to the Lord's sort order; refer to the Manual for guidance: https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/64651345 | Pass Fail | The user manual may need to be edited/updated |
| 30 | Update star status https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526509 | Able to update star status from the modal Updated stars display in the Editor | Pass Fail |
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| 31 | Generate PDF of Lords Marshalled List and publish it Generating and viewing a PDF https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/60456974 | PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’ After selecting ‘Publish’ from the Actions menu, the publish version modal appears After confirming, a new significant version is created on the right-hand side Significant version’s label will be the version label of your list, prepended with the word ‘Published’ | Pass Fail |
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| 32 | Record outcomes against amendments using the Editor https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/60948519 | Able to use the Next and Previous buttons to choose between amendments in the list Able to use the Tabled and Rejected buttons Clicking Tabled or Rejected causes the button to become highlighted Able to click again on a highlighted button to deselect it; it becomes un-highlighted Clicking Save updates the Status (which is also visible in the Amendment Status pane) to show either ‘Tabled' or ‘Rejected’ depending on which button was highlighted when the save action was performed | Pass Fail |
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| 33 | Create another Daily Sheet (a supplementary sheet) | New daily sheet opens in the Editor, in a new tab The supplementary ‘rubric’ appears in the Preface: [Supplementary to the Marshalled List] The list contains only new amendments tabled since the previous Marshalled List was published | Pass Fail |
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| 34 | Create a Manuscript Amendment List containing a new amendment https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/65994753 | New List opens in the Editor, in a new tab The list contains the selected amendment Amendment is numbered Amendment will have a black star against it (because it was not published on an earlier list) | Pass Fail |
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| 35 | Generate PDF of Manuscript List and publish it | PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’ After selecting ‘Publish’ from the Actions menu, the publish version modal appears After confirming, a new significant version is created on the right-hand side Significant version’s label will be the version label of your list, prepended with the word ‘Published’ | Pass Fail |
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| 36 | Add additional text to the official Lords lists https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526493 | Able to add new paragraphs to the front and back covers Able to add interstitial headings between amendments in the list Able to save the list | Pass Fail |
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| 37 | Applying amendments as a Lords user https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526373 | Green success toastie appears in top-right of the screen Number of amendments successfully applied is stated in the toastie On the Project Tab, a new bill version exists in the chosen folder with the label you specified When opening that version in the Editor, you can expand the Inline amendments pane and Review pane on the right-hand side to see successful and failed amendments If one or more amendments were successfully applied, the bill version contains red and blue tracked change markup showing the changes made by those amendments If one or more amendments were successfully applied, there is an ‘Accept All’ button at the top of the list in the Inline amendments panel Clicking ‘Accept all’ applies the amendments to the bill text and removes the red and blue tracked changes | Pass Fail |
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| 38 | Update cross references in amendments | Able to resolve cross-references in applied amendments | Pass Fail |
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| 39 | Create the ‘As amended in Committee’ version and publish it | PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab When you expand the snapshot versions under your list, there is a snapshot version labelled ‘PDF’ After selecting ‘Publish’ from the Actions menu, the publish version modal appears After confirming, a new significant version is created on the right-hand side Significant version’s label will be the version label of your list, prepended with the word ‘Published’ |
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| 40 | Prepare the "As Brought From Lords" version https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/63406081 | Able to share version between HoL and HoC Able to add Brought from date Able to change ‘Printed by’ value to House of Commons Able to update the front and back covers in the Editor Version rubric shows [As brought from the Lords] Able to generate a PDF and publish it | Pass Fail |
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| 41 | As an OPC user, create a new LoDA against the As Brought from the Lords version | Editor opens containing the draft list of amendments template And the Bill name will appear at the top of the template And the stage will match what I specified And the proposer will match what I specified And the list will be visible on the "Amendment Workspace" tab against the As brought from the Lords workspace filter | Pass Fail |
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| 42 | As an OPC user, create some amendments in the LoDA Drafting and editing amendments https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/65011715 Create at least three amendments, so you can test other features (like ‘bulk update status’) in later steps. Make sure your amendments are explicitly referring to clauses and schedules - this will allow you to test the Order of Consideration later. Examples of the formatting and phrasing of Commons amendments can be found in this PDF: Commons PBC amendments to the Digital Markets Bill | A new amendment appears in the Editor And there are custom placeholders for Page-line, New Clause, New Schedule, and Stand part amendments And the proposer is the same as the proposer of the previous amendment And an entry appears in the Structure view And when I click save, D numbers will be assigned to all my amendments And the D number assignment shows the user's organisation abbreviation, followed by a number that increases sequentially by 1 and has no leading zeros e.g. OPC1, OPC2 The amendments are also visible in the table on the Amendment Manager tab | Pass Fail |
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| 43 | Duplicate a LoDA | List is duplciated and appears on the Amendment workspace tab against the same bill version Abe to open the new list in the Editor List contains the same amendments from the copied list, including Dnums | Pass Fail |
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| 44 | Amend proposer and add supporters in Commons amendment https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526541 | Able to update proposer and supporter information for amendments drafted in the LoDA In the Manage members modal, both drop-down lists contain suggestions for Commons MPs' names Able to save the list | Pass Fail |
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| 45 | As an OPC user, generate PDF of Commons amendment LoDA with D-Numbers | PDF is generated and a green success toastie appears in the bottom-right of the screen The ‘View PDF’ button in the green success message can be clicked Clicking the ‘View PDF’ button opens the PDF in a new tab PDF shows the D-numbers of all the amendments | Pass Fail | The user manual will need to be updated for v16 |
| 46 | As an OPC user, Submit Commons amendments from a LoDA; in the Submit amendments modal mark them as ‘Government amendments’ Also test commenting on amendments and flagging amendments Submitting amendments https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/115343371 https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526461 | Able to submit amendments from the LoDA
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| 47 | As a HoC user, open submitted amendments in an Ephemeral List | Able to view OPC amendments in the Amendment Manager tab Able to open the amendments in a temporary list | Pass Fail |
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| 48 | Save ephemeral list as LoDA https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526637 | Able to save the temporary list as a LoDA with a new label Saved LoDA is visible on the Amendment Workspace tab | Pass Fail |
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| 49 | Copy and paste amendments in LoDA | Amendment is pasted as a new amendment, with no D-num assigned to it Able to save the list | Pass Fail |
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| 50 | Bulk Table Amendments Tabling UK amendments (incl. 'ready for publishing') | To update statuses in one go | Able to table all amendments in the LoDA | Pass Fail |
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| 51 | Bulk update status of amendments to ‘Ready for publishing’ Tabling UK amendments (incl. 'ready for publishing') | To update statuses in one go | Able to mark all amendments in the LoDA as ‘Ready for publishing' | Pass Fail |
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| 52 | Renumber amendments in the LoDA https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526629 | Able to renumber amendments from the specified starting number in the Editor OPC amendments which were marked as government amendments will have Gov before their number | Pass Fail |
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| 53 | Create Commons Marshalled List and Update the list https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/30212099 https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/23199745 | Empty Marshalled List opens in the Editor, in a new tab Relevant rubrics are present at the start of the List; compare with this PDF: digitalmarkets_day_pbc_0711.pdf (parliament.uk) On clicking ‘Update list’, all amendments marked ‘Ready for publishing’ are added to the list and can be viewed in the editor | Pass Fail |
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| 54 | Insert resolutions and motions and convert resolution to order https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526501 https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526381 | Able to use the CCA in the Editor to insert resolutions into the list Able to use the CCA in the Editor to insert motions into the list Converting a resolution into an Order removes it from the list and a new order (containing the resolution content) is inserted at the end of the amendment list (before the Withdrawn Amendment section) Able to save the list | Pass Fail |
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| 55 | Create order of consideration for Commons amendments https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526399 | Able to create an Order of Consideration from the modal | Pass Fail |
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| 56 | Create some new amendments and then re-run 'Update List' in the Commons Marshalled List | New amendments are added to the Marshalled list Amendments which appear in the updated Marshalled list are marked with a black star Able to save the list | Pass Fail |
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| 57 | Generate a PDF of a Commons Marshalled list; ensure ‘Record snapshot version’ is ticked | Able to generate a PDF Check PDF formatting: compare with digitalmarkets_day_pbc_0615.pdf (parliament.uk) | Pass Fail |
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| 58 | Publish Commons Marshalled List https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/60456974 | Able to publish the list New significant version is created on the Official Lists tab | Pass Fail |
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| 59 | Duplicate last published Commons Marshalled List https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526440 | Able to duplicate the list Second marshalled list is visible on the Official Lists tab and can be opened in the Editor | Pass Fail |
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| 60 | Re-run 'Update List' to test the white star functionality https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526698 | White star appears next to all amendments in the list The PDF version displays the white stars against the same amendments
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| 61 | Share Marshalled List with OPC | Significant version created on the Official Lists tab after sharing New significant version is visible to OPC users | Pass Fail |
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| 62 | Recording outcomes (use Next/Previous buttons) https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/60948519 | Able to navigate between amendments in the list using the Next and Previous buttons Able to update the outcome of each amendment using the buttons After clicking the button, the decision block displays that outcome Able to change the text in the decision block by typing into the 'decision' field on the right-hand panel On saving, the changes are saved | Pass Fail |
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| 63 | Generate a Commons Proceedings Document https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526477 | Empty Proceedings document opens in the Editor, in a new tab Relevant rubrics are present at the start of the List; compare with this PDF: digitalmarkets_rpro_pbc_0711 (parliament.uk) On clicking ‘Update list’, all amendments with outcomes recorded against them are added to the list and can be viewed in the Editor | Pass Fail |
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| 64 | Generate PDF of Commons Proceedings Document; ensure ‘Record snapshot version’ is ticked | Able to generate a PDF of the Proceedings document | Pass Fail |
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| 65 | Publish Commons Proceedings Document https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/60456974 | Able to publish the Proceedings document New Significant version created on the Official Lists tab | Pass Fail |
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| 66 | Create another Commons Marshalled List, to test that amendments with outcomes recorded against them are no longer included | On creating the list and updating it, amendments with outcomes recorded against them are not included | Pass Fail |
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| 67 | Applying amendments as a Commons user https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/25526373 | Green success toastie appears in top-right of the screen Number of amendments successfully applied is stated in the toastie On the Project Tab, a new bill version exists in the chosen folder with the label you specified When opening that version in the Editor, you can expand the Inline amendments pane and Review pane on the right-hand side to see successful and failed amendments If one or more amendments were successfully applied, the bill version contains red and blue tracked change markup showing the changes made by those amendments If one or more amendments were successfully applied, there is an ‘Accept All’ button at the top of the list in the Inline amendments panel Clicking ‘Accept all’ applies the amendments to the bill text and removes the red and blue tracked changes | Pass Fail |
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