Generating a Lords Marshalled List at Ping Pong
Generating an official list will automatically populate the appropriate document template with relevant ping pong motions, sorted and grouped under appropriate interstitial headings.
How to generate a Lords Marshalled List at ping pong (for a Commons Starter or not the first ping pong round for a Lords Starter)
Create a list by:
From the Amendment Manager tab: select Amendment Actions > Create Official List from the dropdown menu in the top right of the page
From the Official List tab: click on the Create List button
Select Lords Marshalled List
Update the relevant information in the dialog box and click on Create
A new tab opens with the appropriate document template, containing relevant ping pong motions sorted and grouped under applicable interstitial headings
Process and logic for auto-generating the Lords Marshalled List at Ping Pong
Filtering which amendments to include in the list:
Ping pong motions will appear in the Marshalled List if they were recorded as having been “tabled” up to the specified cut-off date/time of the amendment list.
Sorting the amendments
They will be sorted by the amendment number they are associated to (taken from the motion’s context heading)
Populating the list
As part of populating the list – the following insert logic is applied (same as daily sheet with differences in red text):
Take the first sorted ping pong motion and insert an interstitial heading with “MOTION” before it
Followed by an interstitial heading containing that motion’s context (e.g. “COMMONS AMENDMENT 2”)
Followed by all the source amendment(s) from the Consolidated List (identified from the motion’s context)
Insert the first sorted ping pong motion followed by any other ping pong motions with the same motion context (hide their actual motion context so there’s only one interstitial heading before them all)
Repeat these steps for remaining sorted ping pong motions with different motion contexts
The ping pong motions are not numbered
Any ping pong motion that has not previously been published on another list will be assigned a black star.
You can optionally choose to assign black stars to ping pong amendments if they have been added to a previously published ping pong motion. Follow the same process as adding a star to a normal amendment (v13) Inserting/removing an Amendment Star
How to generate a Lords Marshalled List at ping pong for a Lords Starter when it is the first round of Ping Pong
There are 2 options here, depending on how many ping pong motions there are Vs how many amendments there were on the Consolidated List.
If there were more amendments on the Consolidated List than tabled ping pong motions, it might be quicker to create a Lords Marshalled List and copy the amendments from the Consolidated List straight into it in one go and move the ping pong motions after the appropriate amendment using the structure view; or (to paste motions after the appropriate amendment, move your cursor using the arrow keys into the list body element between the amendments in the list)
If there were more tabled ping pong motions than amendments on the Consolidated List, use the automatic list generation rules for a Marshalled List and copy over the missing amendments from the Consolidated List.
How to copy amendments from the consolidated list into a Lords Marshalled List
If you have quoted a valid commons or lords amendment number in the ‘Amendment heading’ element for your ping pong motion, then the Marshalled List that is generated will automatically be populated with the source amendment and all its associated messages and ping pong amendments. However, sometimes it’s necessary to carve up the source amendment and display bits of it before ping pong motions that may be referring back to earlier messages. This happened in the Marshalled List here https://bills.parliament.uk/publications/41135/documents/145. To recreate this list (or another one like it in future) follow these steps:
To ensure you get a ‘Motion’ heading auto-generated in the Marshalled List before each ping pong motion group:
Open a temporary list containing all the ping pong motions
Update the amendment heading for each ping pong motion with the ping pong amendment that the motion is referring to rather than the source amendment. The amendment heading is the ALL CAPS heading before the motion e.g. “LORDS AMENDMENT 4” for example, in the example Marshalled List linked above:
all motions under Motion A are referring back to “Amendment 4B and 4C” so update the Amendment Heading for any motions within the Motion A group with “LORDS AMENDMENT 4B and 4C”
the motion under Motion B is referring to Amendment 4D so update the Amendment Heading for any motions grouped under Motion B with “LORDS AMENDMENT 4D” etc.
Save changes and close the temporary list
Generate the Lords Marshalled List following the instructions above
Because you added different amendment headings that Lawmaker couldn’t map directly back to a source amendment from the consolidated list, what you will see is a ‘MOTION’ heading before each batch of ping pong motions, but there won’t be any source amendment before these motion groups.
Copy and paste the source amendment after the ‘MOTION’ heading and crop it according to your needs:
Open the latest, working version (green version) of the Consolidated List (to ensure you’re copying all associated messages and ping pong amendments that might be linked to the source amendment)
Find the appropriate amendment in this consolidated list that you want to copy:
Place your cursor in that amendment,
Select ‘amendment’ from the breadcrumb to ensure you are correctly selecting the whole thing (including child messages and their child ping pong amendments) and
Select copy (Ctrl+C or use the right-click menu or the copy button in the upper tool bar).
Open the Marshalled List that you want to paste the amendment into
Locate the ping pong motion that you want the amendment to appear before and place your cursor in the amendment heading before it (e.g. “LORDS AMENDMENT 4B and 4C”)
Use Ctrl+V to paste the source amendment into your Marshalled List
If you need to crop this amendment then carefully select the “Messages” from the source amendment to delete them one-by-one as required using the breadcrumb or structure view.
If you find you have deleted too much, use Ctrl+Z to undo and have another go.
If you only want a ping pong amendment and not the source amendment to appear (see amendment 4D under Motion B, page 4 in the linked Marshalled List above for an example of this scenario) then you cannot simply delete the source amendment as this will delete all its child messages and their child ping pong amendments. Instead:
Delete the quoted structure first by selecting it from the breadcrumb
Use backspace to remove the text (not the element) in the amendment’s instruction and use backspace again to remove the number from the amendment’s num element leaving behind the empty num and empty instruction placeholders. These will not appear in the PDF when it is printed, but means that the child message remains.
Delete the message heading element and the message text element by selecting them from the breadcrumb. Deleting the elements in this case will not delete your ping pong amendment
If you’ve done these previous 3 steps correctly, it will look something like this in the Editor:
If you want to insert an interstitial heading (or any other element) before the first amendment or element in a list, you will need to place you cursor in the 'list body' element. To do this:
Put your cursor at the start of the amendment heading or the first element in your list e.g. “COMMONS AMENDMENT 3”
Click on the left arrow on your keyboard and watch the breadcrumb change until you end up in 'list body'
Click enter now and select the appropriate element from the insert menu e.g. 'Interstitial heading' and type in the inserted element
The selected element will be inserted before the element at the top of the list. The reason for this manoeuvring of cursor location when inserting the first element in a list is because Lawmaker always inserts your selected element after the element that your cursor is in. The only way to insert something as the first item in a list, is to shift the cursor so that it’s in an element before the element at the start of the list.