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100.8. How to Amend Previously Reported C3's

Amending a C3 Report Where the Deposit or Deposit Date Has Not Changed

WA amends a report automatically when a new filing is submitted that shares the same "external_ID" field in its efile as a previous filing. Reports generated in Campaign Manager generate this field based on the committee, deposit, and deposit date.  Thus, if an amendment needs to be filed that does not involve changing the selected deposit or deposit date, all that needs to be done is generate and submit the report again.  

Amending a C3 Report Where the Deposit and/or Deposit Date Has Changed

However, if the amendment involves a different deposit or different deposit date, the auto-generated "external_ID" field needs to be overridden with one matching the original report's ID. This can be done by entering the correct ID in the "external ID override" field at the bottom of the report's criteria page. When a value is entered in this field, the report will use the entered value as the "external_ID". 

The correct value to enter in the "external ID override" field can be found in the "external_ID" field of the original report that is being amended. In addition, to make the ID easier to find, C3 efiles generated via CM will have a filename that contains the "external_ID".  As an example, files will generate as "12345678-1234-87654321.json" or "12345678-1234-87654321_EfileJson.json".  In both of these examples, the "12345678-1234-87654321" is the external ID.