RIS Navigation
Tips
1. The F5 button on your keyboard is the refresh key. If
changes to a section do not appear after using the RIS Update button in the RIS
toolbar, hit the F5 button to refresh the screen.
2. The headers at the top of each page in RIS may be used
to navigate to various pages as follows:
· The main heading, "Regulation Information
System," takes you back to your list of agencies.
· "Town Hall" takes you to a log-in screen and
then directly to the project in Town Hall if it is linked to RIS.
· "Projects" takes you to your list of pending
RIS projects in numerical order.
· "Tools" takes you to a page for updating the
RIS template.
· "Newsletter" links to the archive page for
the Virginia Register News, a monthly
newsletter for agency regulatory coordinators and RIS users. This is also
available from the Register website under Resources for Agency Regulatory
Coordinators.
3. The RIS Projects List page shows projects in numerical
order. Sort columns by clicking on the column headers.
4. The Action ID number in the last column of the
Projects List page is the linked Action ID number assigned by the Regulatory
Town Hall system. "Del!" in this column means an RIS project that was
previously linked to a TH action is no longer linked. If this occurs, please
contact the Registrar's Office to troubleshoot the situation. If this area is
blank, no TH action is linked to the project.
5. Clicking on the project number from the Projects List
page will provide you with the "history" of the project. This will
build as projects are handled through RIS.
6.
Open a project by clicking on the manila folder in the
project's row. This produces the Project Details page for the individual project.
See the RIS
User Instructions on the Register website for a step-by-step guide to
inserting sections to amend, add or repeal into a project.
7. Click on the section catchline to make changes to the
"description." The "description" is used for the table of
contents for the online VAC when a section becomes effective. The text should
match the text on the section page as it will appear in the online VAC when it
becomes effective.
8. Click on the section number to open the section page.
Navigation buttons on the section page perform the following functions:
· "back" takes you back to the Project Details
page at any time.
· "prev" and "next" take you through
the list of sections being amended, added or repealed in section numerical
order.
· "vac" opens a new window with the section
from the current online VAC. This feature is not available for new sections
being added in the project. Right click on "vac" and select
"Open in New Tab" to open the current section in a new tab next to your
current window.
·
"integ" activates the integrity check feature
and compares the underlying text in the project section to the text in the
current online VAC. This feature is not available for new sections being added
in the project. After using the "integ" navigation button, go to
another section and return to the original section to reactivate all navigation
buttons.
· "hilite" causes underlined text to appear in
yellow and stricken text to appear in red.
9. As you have questions or suggestions, forward them to
Lilli Hausenfluck at LHausenfluck@dls.virginia.gov for inclusion in FAQs and
for future modifications to the system.
10. Contact information for the Registrar's Office: voice
– 786-3591 and fax – 692-0625 and for the Legislative Automated Systems
helpdesk – 786-9631.
Updated
3-3-2009