Running Meetings
How to upload supporting papers and annexes to agenda items.
How to create, populate and prepare an agenda for committing, including adding items, sub-items, papers and special content.
How to use the calendar view, generate the meeting year planner PDF, and subscribe to the iCal feed.
How to commit an agenda, what preflight checks are run, what happens when you do, and what to check beforehand.
How to clone a committed agenda to create a minor or major version, and when to choose each.
How to create a new meeting, set the date, time and venue, and assign it to a committee.
The statutory three clear working days rule, how CouncilPapers calculates your deadline, and what the status indicators mean.
How to make a committed agenda version live using the Change Active Agenda button, and how to switch between versions.
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