Deterministic, and tested as such: generate twice from the same library version and the same answers and the two files are byte-identical; change one answer, re-plan, change it back, re-plan, and you have the first plan again. Everything below depends on that, and so does the diff.
Skipping a question is a valid answer with a stated consequence: it resolves the most inclusive way, gives you more items rather than fewer, and the plan says which items came from a question you skipped, so you can come back and narrow it.
OAR 411-360-0130 StandardsOAR 411-360-0140 Health careOAR 411-360-0150 Emergency informationOAR 411-360-0170 Documentation and recordsOAR 411-360-0180 Staff recordsOAR 411-360-0185 Abuse and incidentSeven steps, each one a decision rather than a form. The quote at the fifth is the editor refusing in plain words.
Your licence track, asked before anything else and shown again on the plan so a wrong choice is visible rather than buried. Four cards, each described in two plain sentences saying what that licence is rather than what its chapter number is. It selects the library, and the libraries differ in almost every item. If your track has no library yet the plan screen says so plainly, and you are not charged for what you cannot use.
How many people live here · do you employ staff other than yourself · do you provide transportation · do you handle residents’ money · is this home part of a certified agency. One per screen, each saying why it is asked and what it will change, so that answering is a decision rather than a form. On the agency track the fifth becomes how many homes you operate, because each library brings its own questions.
Typically five binders — resident, staff file, facility, emergency, policy — though the library decides. Every item is required, conditional or suggested: required items can be moved and never removed, conditional items carry the answer that produced them, suggested items are labelled as good practice and can go. The plan also tells you how many physical binders and how many dividers to buy.
The contents page, the tab dividers, the brief and the procedure, each carrying your facility code, the version and a control number. Printing every binder’s every artefact in one go is the one bulk action there is. Every print writes a row — version, control number, artefact, who and when — and the file is kept, so any past control number reproduces the identical sheet.
Five edits and no others: reorder tabs, rename a tab’s label while the item and its authority stay as they are, move an item to another tab of the same binder, add an item of your own, remove a suggested one. Every edit is attributed and makes a version. There is no bulk edit, because each edit is a judgement about one item.
“This item is required by section 0170. You can move it, but it can’t come out.”
Three things can change — an answer, your track, or a new library version — and none of them changes your plan on its own. A re-plan is offered, never applied: the diff shows what was added and why, what was removed and why, what moved, and which of your edits can no longer apply. Nothing changes until you accept, and declining leaves the plan exactly as it was.
Back to the library default for your current answers. The screen tells you exactly what will be discarded before anything is. Your edits go, your notes stay, a new version is made, and the previous version with its edits is still readable.
Applying a re-plan tells you which binders need reprinting and which do not, which is the whole point. Say you start employing staff: the diff adds a staff-file binder and four facility items, each naming the answer that produced it, nothing is removed, one of your edits is reported as no longer applicable — and you print two, not five. Notes attach to an item’s permanent identifier, so they survive a reset, a re-plan, a new library version and a change of track; a note on an item a new version removes is kept and shown to you as orphaned, to move onto an item of your own or discard, never quietly lost.
Every refusal says what you tried, which guardrail applied, the rule behind it, and at least one thing you can do instead, one tap away. It never uses the language of permission — it never says “not allowed” — and a refusal that offers you no alternative is a bug on our side, not a rule on yours. Refusals are counted by item and by guardrail, because a guardrail that refuses the same item over and over is telling us the library has that item marked wrongly or placed wrongly. So are the items you add yourself: every one of them is something the library did not know about.
The guarded editor, at true size, is on the front page: The editor.
A tab label is bounded to what fits a real divider and the bound is enforced while you edit, so a label that will not fit cannot be saved; if you have no divider stock there is a plain-paper alternative with cut guides. Each artefact is generated as a PDF inside the product and then downloaded or shared — never handed to the browser’s print dialog, which is unreliable across platforms. On a phone it goes to the share sheet, so it can reach a printer, a laptop or a print shop.
Printing every binder at once is permitted. Bulk editing is not.
A print that fails consumes no control number. Any past control number reproduces the identical artefact.
Each artefact is generated as a PDF inside the product and then downloaded or shared — never handed to the browser’s print dialog. On a phone it goes to the share sheet, so it can reach a printer, a laptop or a print shop.
Every print writes a row — version, control number, artefact, who and when — and the file is kept, so any past control number reproduces the identical sheet.