Using the Indigo Platform

Note

For a full guide to editing documents, see the Laws.Africa editors guide.

Welcome to the guide to using the Indigo platform to manage and maintain a collection of legislation documents. This guide is for law librarians and others who are familiar with writing legislation documents and want to know how to use the Indigo Platform.

Note

Indigo cannot be used with Internet Explorer. You must use Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge.

Note

Throughout this guide we refer to documents. These are generally legislative Acts but may also be related legislative documents such as regulations or by-laws.

Contents:

• Managing Your Account
  • Logging In
  • Creating an account
  • Resetting your password
  • Changing your name or email address
  • Changing your password
  • Logging out
• Indigo Principles
  • Documents
  • Structure, Content and Presentation
  • Akoma Ntoso
  • What Indigo Does for You
• Countries and Places
  • Choosing a Country
  • Choosing a Locality
  • Country overview
• Works and documents
  • Creating a work
  • Importing a document
• Editing Documents
  • Making and Saving Changes
  • Editing Structure
  • Chapters, Parts, Sections, etc.
  • Tables
  • Telling Indigo to Ignore Special Items
  • Adding new Chapters, Parts and Sections
  • Links
  • Images
  • Downloading PDF and Standalone HTML
  • Viewing the XML
• The Admin Area
  • Logging In
  • Permissions
  • Adding New Admins