Introduction
The structure view provides an alternative way of viewing provisions or amendments in your document and performing various actions. The structure view will allow users to drill-down to the lowest level provisions from the highest level in the document including sub-sub-paragraphs as well as all provisions within quoted structures.
How to change from depth-limited view to full structure view
- Click on the single down arrow
to enable full structure view - Click on the double down arrow
to enable limited structure view
How to turn on/off the structure view
- Click on the toggle switch
to turn on/off the structure view
How to show/hide structure view
- How to show the structure view – click on the right facing arrow on the left-hand side of the Editor view
- How to hide the structure view – click on the left facing arrow on the right-hand side of the structure view
How to reset the structure view to default levels
- Click on the ‘reset’ button
at the top of the structure view - The system will collapse/expand all elements to the default level depending on document type
- Bills/SIs/SSIs = Table of Contents level
- Amendment lists = Amendment number/instruction level
How to change the width of the structure view
- Hover your mouse cursor over the right-hand side of the Structure View box until the double headed arrow appears
- Hold down the left button on your mouse to move the structure view in or out to increase/decrease the overall width
Hints and tips
- The default structure view is set to “depth limited view” which drills down as far as:
- For Bills – section level
- For SI/SSIs – regulation/article/rule level
- For Amendments – amendment instruction level
- If you are experiencing performance issues with a larger bill, it can help if you turn off the structure view and only open it if you need to do some structure manipulation
- Hiding the structure view does not turn it off, you will need to use the on/off toggle at the top of the structure view.
- You can also use the structure view to move provisions around – see “Moving provisions or amendments (using structure view)”
- Black text indicates where the cursor is currently located in the Editor view
- To select one or more provisions using the structure view to perform certain actions (e.g. renumber, delete or wrap) use the keyboard shortcut ‘Ctrl + mouse click’). The selected provisions will be highlighted in the structure view to show that they have been selected.
- You can only select contiguous, sibling provisions
- If you select a higher-level provision it will automatically select all its descendants
- If another user is editing the same document as you, a black padlock will appear against the provision(s) they are working on, signalling that they are locked and you cannot edit them.
- If you are editing the document, the provision(s) that you are updating will display grey pencil icons to indicate that you have them locked for editing.
- Newly inserted provisions will be shown with a grey asterisk.
- Hovering the mouse cursor over these lock icons will reveal a tool tip explaining who has the lock and since when.
- Clicking on a provision in the structure view will jump to that provision in the Editor, highlighting it in the Editor view, including all its descendent provisions e.g. if you select a section that contains subsections and paragraphs, they will all be highlighted in the Editor when you click on the section in the structure view.