Submitting ping pong motions

Once you have finished drafting your ping pong motion(s), you can submit them for tabling to the appropriate Parliament.  This action changes the permissions on an amendment if you are an OPC user so that the appropriate Parliament users can now view and edit the submitted amendments and you will only have read only access.  

How to submit ping pong motion from the 'Amendments' tab

1. From the Amendment Manager tab, use the check boxes on the left-hand side of each amendment to select the one(s) you wish to submit

2. Select Amendment Actions > Submit Amendments from the dropdown menu in the top right of the screen

3. The selected elements will be updated to status “Submitted” and visible to the appropriate Parliaments’ users

How to submit ping pong motions from the Editor (OPC)

1. Open the List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) in the Editor

2. Click on the Document Information right-hand panel in the Editor

3. Click on the Submit List button

4. A submission confirmation dialog box will appear summarising which ping pong motions will be submitted. If any are not eligible for submission, you won’t be able to submit any. The ones which broke a validation rule will be listed under the rule that they break so you know which need updating.

5. Select “Submit”

6. The ping pong motions on the list will all be updated to status “Submitted” and visible to the appropriate Parliaments’ users

How to 'bulk' submit amendments from the Editor (Parliament users)

1. Open the List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) in the Editor

2. Click on the Amendment Status right-hand panel in the Editor

3. From the Bulk update statuses drop-down, select Draft to Submitted

4. Click on the Update button

5. A submission confirmation dialog box will appear summarising which ping pong motions will be submitted. If any are not eligible for submission, you won’t be able to submit any. The ones which broke a validation rule will be listed under the rule that they break so you know which need updating.

6. Select “Submit”

7. Save your changes and all ping pong motions in the list that are set to 'Draft' will be updated to 'Submitted'

• Submitting ping pong motions from the Editor, will only work if all amendments are eligible for submission. Eligibility checks include:

  • the associated bill version has been published by the appropriate Parliament,

  • the status of all motions is “Draft”,

  • there are no active locks on any motions, and

  • no motion has a flag set against them

• You will be warned if any motions have comments or tracked changes in the submission confirmation dialog box. However, you are still able to submit them. If you want to update these motions before submitting, select ‘Cancel’.