Development - Entries from October 2019

Friday, October 25. 2019

LDC #158: Validating for XBRL Custom Elements With No Name

This week, we’re going to revisit a blog post from early 2018, Validating with the XBRL Object. This was a relatively straightforward script. It hooks itself into the validate function and adds an additional layer of validation for XBRL files. Having seen a couple of issues with blank element names in XBRL causing problems this past week, I figured it would help to create a script that enhances our default validation to detect these blank names and add in a temporary placeholder name so that it can be removed.

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Posted by

Steven Horowitz

in Development at 17:54

Friday, October 18. 2019

LDC #157: Understanding Used versus Allocated Space in Arrays

Arrays, such as lists, tables or cubes, are a useful programming tool. However, to get the most from using an array, it helps to have a more thorough understanding of exactly how arrays are stored and allocated.

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Scott Theis

in Development at 18:06

Friday, October 11. 2019

LDC #156: Introduction to File Types in Legato

A very common scenario for a script is to get a file from a user, perform several actions on it and then save the file. As developers it is easy to fall into the “user is always correct” trap. We assume that if we are asking for an HTML file, the user is going to give us one. Whether the user does it on purpose or not, sometimes this isn’t the case and we, as developers, should be prepared for this use case. This blog is going to discuss how we can validate files we receive from the user.

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Posted by

David Theis

in Development at 16:12

Friday, October 04. 2019

LDC #155: Automatically Locking Projects

When submitting a filing to the SEC you want everything about this filing to be checked, double checked, or even triple checked before submitting a live filing. If you are not 100% careful mistakes can happen. Just like elsewhere in life, following a set list of tasks for every filing can end up making life easier and allow you to ensure that mistakes are minimized as much as possible. Luckily there is a task list feature in GoFiler that we can access through Legato. This means that we can take steps to ensure that the same process gets followed every time that a filing gets created.

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Posted by

Joshua Kwiatkowski

in Development at 16:14

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