Editing the project title
When you first create a project, you must choose a title - see Creating a new project. This becomes the title of the project, and all new working versions you create will open in the Editor with this title pre-populated:
How to change the title
It is possible to change the project title (and therefore the pre-populated title which appears in any new working versions) by clicking the title field at the top of the Project tab:
Type the new title in the text box, and press Enter (or click the Save button) to confirm your changes.
To discard your changes without saving, click somewhere outside the text box, or press the Tab key to change your focus within the Project tab.
Permission to edit the title
When working in a Bill project, only certain users will be able to edit the project title.
If you have permission to edit the title, you will see a pencil icon to the right of the title.
The rules which determine whether you can edit the title of a Bill project are based on which organisation you belong to, who created the project, and whether there are any published or submitted Bill documents in the project.
If there are no published bill versions, then any users who belong to the organisation which originally created the project will be able to edit the title.
As soon as a version of the bill is published, the title can only be edited by users in the organisation which published the most recent version of the bill.
If another organisation publishes a new version of the bill (or submits the Act copy to the National Archives), that organisation will become solely responsible for editing the title of the project.
For example, consider a government bill which is going to be introduced into the House of Commons:
During the pre-introduction phase, when the bill is being drafted by OPC, only OPC users will be able to edit the title of the project. This is the case even if they use the Share action to send a copy to users in another organisation, whether that’s a parliamentary organisation or another government department.
When the bill is introduced, it is published by the House of Commons. From this point onwards, OPC users can no longer edit the project title. Only House of Commons users can edit the title.
When the bill completes its amending stages in the Commons and is published by the House of Lords, users in the Lords acquire the ability to edit the project title. Users in OPC, the Commons, or any other organisation can no longer edit the title.
For a bill which is introduced into the Lords first, the same rules apply. The organisation which published the most recent bill version is the organisation with the right to edit the project title.
Submitting an Act version of a bill to TNA also grants an organisation the right to edit the title. For a Lords-starter bill which completes its amending stages in the Lords first and the Commons second, it is possible for the Lords to update the project title once they have submitted a version of the Act to the National Archives.