How to Save Discovery Alerts to An Issue

FiscalNote will alert you to information, typically legislation or regulation, that matches your Discovery Alerts. If you decide that information in your Discovery Alerts is relevant and/or important, you can add that information to one or more Issues. Issues are like folders in which you may store relevant information like the legislation or regulation that is important to you. Issues allow you to monitor the legislation or regulation and can send you email updates about changes. 

It is possible to add one or multiple items to one or more Issues. 

Adding One Item to One or More Issues 

If you would like to add a single item of legislation or regulation from a Discovery Alert to one or more Issues, your may hover over the “Plus” icon on the item's card. 

This will activate a small list with a search field and a scroll bar. This is the list of Issues used by your organization. To locate a relevant Issue, you can search by name or browse using the scroll bar. Click on the name of the Issue to add the legislation or regulation to the Issue. A green checkmark will appear to indicate you successfully added the bill.

If you're using the preview panel for the legislation/regulation, you may add it to one more Issues by hovering over the or "+Issues" button. This will activate a small list with a search field and a scroll bar. This is the list of Issues used by your organization. To locate a relevant Issue, you can search by name or browse using the scroll bar. Click on the name of the Issue to add the legislation or regulation to the Issue. A green checkmark will appear to indicate you successfully added the bill.

You may continue adding the legislation/regulation to other Issues. If you change your mind, simply click on the name of the Issue again to remove the legislation/regulation from Issue. The green checkmark will also disappear to confirm that the legislation/regulation was successfully removed from the Issue.  

Adding Multiple Items to One or More Issues 

If you would like to add multiple items to one or more Issues, you can select multiple items by using the checkboxes at the left of each item. You may manually apply checkmarks to the checkboxes, or you may choose "Select All Displayed" option at the top of the Discovery Alerts to apply checkmarks to checkboxes for all the items displayed on your Discovery Alerts page.

"Select All Displayed" will at minimum apply checkmarks to the first 10 items. To select more than 10 items, scroll down on the middle column displaying items to load more items. Once items are loaded, click "Select all displayed". The maximum number of items that "Select all displayed" can select is 500, and we recommend selecting amounts less than 500 for optimal performance. Please note that if you scroll to more than 500 items, clicking "Select all displayed" will only select the first 500.

Once all desired items are select, click the Add to Issue button near the top of the Discovery Alerts page. From here, locate the Issue(s) and click the name to add the item accordingly.