Bills

# Bill overview

Bills are basic building blocks of Maata they are used to make long form content of thousands of words which make up bills .

# Bill features

These are main characteristics of a bill

1. Bill is a long form of text.
2. Bill can be public or private.
3. Bill has a short description describing the actual bill content.
4. Bill has a name which is a one or two words summary of the bill content.

# Create bill

From the image above you can create a bill in multiple ways:

1. From a specific deployment/ consultation you create a bill using thecreate bill button down on the bills tab.
2. From a quick action on deployment page

You have to fill out the bill creation form and save it .

• name: is a summarized bill content is few word not more than 4
• content: is the actual full content of a bill which doesn't exceed 250 characters
• description: is a description of bill content
• open: this is to control who you want to view your bill
• auth: this is to control if a user has to own account or not to view the bill being created

# View bill

View a bill you will see a bill in full details with all its meta data.

# Edit bill

You can edit a bill in various:

1. From the bill view there is an edit button .
2. From the bill settings there is an edit button

Once you reach the page you adjust the bill as needed and save those changes

# Bill settings

The bill settings page control bill in general from knowing the creator , to deleting the bill. From settings you get all the interactions around a bill such as comments, huddles, votes, attachments, endorsements ,...

# Delete bill

You can delete a bill , with all the required credentials.

NB : This is an irreversible process procede with caution

# Bill actions

This is a bill quick action menu , where you can start interaction around a bill using:

1. Endorsements: this enables to give a bill an endorsement
2. Comments: this enables to give a bill a comment
3. Votes: this enables to give a bill a vote
4. Huddles: this enables to give a bill a huddle
5. Attachments: this enables to give a bill an attachment