One of the challenges of developing software in a Windows environment is dealing with user permissions. If a user can’t access a file, that can bring your script to a grinding (and sometimes unexpected) halt. Understanding what a user can and cannot do is crucial to avoiding this scenario and ensuring only files to which the user has access are available for reading, writing, and executing. Today we’re going to take a look at a look at how Legato can help you determine what permissions a user has and ensure those file permissions don’t inappropriately interfere with your script’s proper execution.
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LDC #45: Administrative Rights
Wednesday, July 26. 2017
XBRL US Data Quality Committee Presents Fifth Rule set for Public Review
The XBRL US Center for Data Quality has begun a public review period on July 19th, 2017, for the fifth set of proposed rules to provide guidance and aid for issuers in identifying errors in their XBRL SEC filings. The Data Quality Committee rules aim to help filers limit mistakes and avoid data inconsistencies that can adversely affect analysis of reported financial information.
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LDC #44: Mapped Text Objects: Power in Editing Text
Editing text is the foundation of many computer applications, and there are a lot of ways to access and manage textual data and the editing process. As a user changes text, characters and lines of data must be altered, deleted, or inserted, which in turn requires potentially large swaths of data be shifted to accommodate the changes. As you might imagine, actions like these can become extremely cumbersome and time consuming. In addition, there are times you might want to randomly access a data within a text file, say by a line. If we have a large chunk of text in memory or a file and we want to go to line 3017, the program would have to count line endings from the start of the data until it reached the 3017th link. Yuck! Let’s see what Legato can do to help managing text as it’s edited.
Continue reading "LDC #44: Mapped Text Objects: Power in Editing..." »Monday, July 17. 2017
SEC Releases EDGAR 17.2
On July 17, 2017, EDGAR 17.2 was released by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This release contained changes that added new fields to a number of forms that designate whether a registrant is an Emerging Growth Company and to inform the SEC as to whether the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards. Other changes affect a number of forms, including Form D, Form CFPortal, Form 17HACON, and the exhibit document for Form ABS-EE.
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LDC #43: Character Entity Spacing Issue When Printing
Last week, our support desk here at Novaworks received an interesting email regarding the spacing between ampersand characters (‘&’) and the rest of the line. This space was lost when the document was printed. Through some testing, we’ve discovered that when printing a document from Internet Explorer to PDF or a normal printer, if the first character on a line of code begins a character entity or is an ampersand then the return on the line above it will not be treated as whitespace for printing purposes but instead ignored. Take the following code for example:
Continue reading "LDC #43: Character Entity Spacing Issue When..." »Thursday, July 13. 2017
Forms N-1A, N-3, and N-CSR: New Changes Require Funds To Describe Securities Lending Activities
On August 1, 2017, new rules that require funds to describe their securities lending activities will go into effect.
Continue reading "Forms N-1A, N-3, and N-CSR: New Changes Require..." »Friday, July 07. 2017
LDC #42: Unregistering and Changing Software Keys
There are times when it may be desirable or necessary to change GoFiler’s software key or unregister it from your system. There’s no easy way to do this through the application’s GUI. One can always uninstall the software or reinstall it to apply a different key than the one attached to the current installation, but that’s time-consuming and can destroy GoFiler preferences and settings you’d like to keep. With Legato and some batch scripting, changing the software key for a GoFiler installation or unregistering the application is simple. Note: whatever software key you apply to your installation must be valid, and a valid key can only be purchased through Novaworks. Contact the support or sales departments to inquire about the status of your software key(s) or to purchase new or additional keys.
Continue reading "LDC #42: Unregistering and Changing Software Keys" »Thursday, July 06. 2017
SEC Expands JOBS Act Benefit to All Companies
On June 29, 2017, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance announced that it will permit all companies to submit draft registration statements relating to initial public offerings for review on a non-public basis. In addition to IPOs, this process will be available to most other offerings made during a company’s first year after entering the public reporting system.
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