Introduction
It is possible to pull the body from multiple documents into a single document. Combined with the feature allowing you to copy documents from other projects, this could be useful when merging different bill projects into a single bill. Or useful when compiling a single Finance Resolution Document from lots of separate Finance Resolution documents.
How to copy provisions from multiple documents
- Open the document you want to pull provisions from multiple documents into
- From the upper tool bar, select 'Tools > Copy provision from multiple documents...'
- Select the documents you want to copy from using the check boxes
- Select whether you want to:
- renumber the document after the copy
- update x-refs in target document after copy
- add a comment (enter comment text if you select this option)
- Select 'Copy provisions' to pull the provisions into your document
Hints and tips
- If a provision already exists, it will be replaced by the selected provision.
- If it doesn't exist but the sibling provision before the selected provision exists in the target document, Lawmaker will insert it after the sibling.
- If Lawmaker couldn't find an 'anchor' provision, the copied provisions will be inserted at the end of the document.
- You can only pull provisions from another document if the document doesn't contain locks to other users
- You can only pull in provisions from documents of the same type. This is particularly relevant to Finance Bill projects containing Finance Resolutions: it's not possible to pull finance resolutions into finance bills. You will need to use copy & paste to handle that.