Before you can complete this exercise, you will need your own training project containing a half finished bill to continue drafting. If you haven’t got one already, create a project containing a half finished bill:
Drafting a bill.xml The following steps will allow you to create the data required for this exercise.
How to create a new project
Download the XML document for the exercise by clicking on the link you’ve been provided with. By default, the downloaded file is usually placed in the “downloads” folder on your computer.
Log in to Lawmaker.
From the Dashboard, create a new project of the type you need for the exercise. Give it a title such as [Your Initials] Drafting a bill. (See Creating a new project.)
From the Project tab for that project, select DocumentActions > Upload document, and select the XML file for the exercise which you have downloaded. It can be uploaded into the default folder that has been created in the project. (See Create a new document by uploading an XML file.)
On the newly uploaded document version, select Actions > Update Document Information and update the Title to match the title you originally gave the project.
Duplicate this document version using Actions > Duplicate version and call the new version the name of this module. We will create a new document version per module.
Open the duplicated version in the Editor
✏️ Exercise 1: Moving provisions around your document
In this exercise you will learn how to drill down to lower level provisions and how to move provisions and tables around your document.
If you haven’t already done so, duplicate the imported bill version and name it the description of this module so you can easily track work related to these exercises. Open this document in the Editor and use the structure view to move provisions around
Step 1: Insert a table
In the Editor, insert a table after section 1(2)—
Detailed steps to insert a table into your document
Insert a table after section 1(2) (Insert > Insert Table) (leaving all the default settings unchanged in the Insert table dialog box)
Update the cell values
Step 2: Move the table using the structure view
Before you can move the table to another provision, you need to toggle the view of the structure view to see the lower-level provisions
Detailed steps to move the table using the structure view
In the heading of the structure view, click on the down arrow to view lower-level provisions
Click on the arrow to the left of section 1 in the structure view to drill down to the lower levels
Click on the arrow to the left of subsection (2) to see the table
Expand section 2 so you can see all its subsections in the structure view
Click and hold with your left mouse button on the table and drag it so that it’s under section 2(4) and drop it in position. The table will successfully move to section 2(4)
Step 3: Move provisions using the structure view
You can also move provisions using the structure view
Detailed steps to move provisions using the structure view
Click on section 2 (with the subsections still visible) and attempt to move it after section 7. You won’t be able to. You must collapse the view so that no child elements are visible before you can move a provision using the structure view
Click on the arrow to the left of section 2 to collapse the section and hide the subsections.
Click and hold with your left mouse button and drag the section so that it appears after section 7
Step 4: Use multi-select in the structure view to move more than one provision
You can only drag one provision at a time. If you want to move more than one at the same time, they have to be contiguous.
Select sections 3, 4 and 5 and move the after section 1
Detailed steps to move multiple provisions
Ensure sections 3, 4 and 5 are collapsed with no child provisions showing in the structure view
Multi-select them by pressing CTRL and clicking on each of them with your left mouse button
To move them in bulk, you need to use cut & paste. When they are all highlighted, cut them using keyboard shortcut CTRL+X
Place your cursor in section 1 in the Editor and paste the cut provisions using keyboard shortcut CTRL+V
✏️ Exercise 2: Using the structure view to select provisions
In this exercise you will learn how selecting provisions using the structure view will select the whole provision which can be useful if you want to cut or delete the whole provision.
The structure view is a good way to select whole provisions e.g. if you want to delete them.
Detailed steps to delete provisions using the structure view
Click on section 1 in the structure view - section 1 will be highlighted in the Editor
Delete it using Del or backspace on your keyboard
Click on part 2 - the whole of part 2 will be highlighted in the Editor
Delete it using Del or backspace on your keyboard
✏️ Exercise 3: Turning off the structure view
This exercise will show you how to turn off the structure view, useful if you are drafting a large document and performance is impacted.
If you do not need the structure view, it is possible to turn it off. This is useful if you’re editing a large document as this might help improve performance.
Detailed steps to turn off structure view
In the Structure View heading bar, click on the on/off switch
☑️ When complete…
Save your changes and close the Editor using the Close Editor button
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