Procedure: Adding minutes

When to perform

Servicing officers add minutes to the Governance Intranet when they have received inputs from all parties and have compiled the final version of the minutes (current or previous) and any other attachments that need to be made available.

You must have

The latest version of the minutes and any other attachments.

Procedure

This procedure has been documented in Windows XP operating system. If you are using Windows 7 or other operating systems, the steps might vary slightly. We will be documenting all procedures for Windows 7 in due course.

Below are links to the parts of this procedure, either follow the procedure sequentially or jump to the part that you need help with:

Opening the meeting page

  1. Log in to the Governance Intranet. See: Logging in.

  1. In Governance - Governance page, select Committees section.  

  1. The Committees - Home page opens displaying the Manage Committees menu.

  2. In the Manage Committees menu, choose My Meetings.

  1. The Committees - My Meetings page opens displaying a list of meetings for the committee which you service.

  2.  In the My Meetings section, select the meeting to which you would like to add minutes (and attachments, if applicable).

  1. The <Meeting name> page opens displaying the meeting details and, if applicable, a list of documents which have already been added.

  2. If a message appears above the meeting title notifying you that items in the Document Set have been added or removed, click Update the Document Set.

Opening the upload page

  1. To add a document, select the Documents tab in the Library Tools section in the top menu.

  2. The Documents ribbon appears:

  1. The Upload Document page opens.

  2. Ensure that the Overwrite existing files check box is selected.

Adding a single file

  1. The Choose File To Upload dialog box appears.

  2. Navigate to the file to be added for the selected meeting.

  3. Select the file and click Open.

  1. The Upload Document page reappears and the file path and name appears in the Name field.

  2. Click OK.

  3. The Processing message asking you to be patient may appear on the page.

  1. The Meetings - <Document file name> page opens displaying a message confirming that the document was uploaded successfully and that you can use the form to update document properties.

  1. Ensure that the correct Content Type was selected for this document (i.e. Minutes or Meeting Attachment), correct if necessary.

  2. Ensure that the file name complies with the file naming convention.

The Governance Intranet will automatically correct file names if not correct.

  1. Check that the Status is correct, if you need to select a status other than the default Draft status, click   Browse for a valid choice.

  2. Check that the <Selected content type> Type is correct, if it is another content sub-type, then click Browse for a valid choice.

  3. Select the Committee.

  4. Click Save.

  1. The <Meeting name> page reappears displaying the document that has just been loaded with a New icon next to the Name.

  2. The document has been successfully added.

  3. If you have more documents to add (e.g. attachments to the minutes), repeat from step 5 until all documents have been added.

  4. Either continue working in the Governance Intranet,

  5. Or log out, see: Logging out.

  6. See also: Downloading committee documents