This week I want to go over a short script that I’ve written recently in order to help automate some of the tasks I have picked up around the office. Some of these tasks involve moving around files and folders on the network. I got tired of manually copying and pasting folders, so I wrote a script to help make moving large amounts of files and folders easier. There’s plenty of ways that this script could be made more in-depth, but this is a practical example of a way to make your life a little bit easier.
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LDC #104: Copy All the Things - An Example of Recursion
Event: SEC to Host Roundtable on Market Data and Market Access
Members of the SEC’s staff will host a two-day roundtable on October 25 and October 26 on market data and market access. This roundtable is hosted by the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets.
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Event: SEC to Host Roundtable on the Proxy Process
Members of the SEC’s staff will host a roundtable on November 15 to hear investor, issuer, and other market participant views about the proxy process and rules. This roundtable will focus on key aspects of the proxy system in the US, including proxy voting mechanics and technology, the shareholder proposal process, and the role and regulation of proxy advisory firms.
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LDC #103: Bringing Data Together
If you’ve ever needed to merge data files from different sources, you know how infuriating the process can be. Not all systems produce the same formats and sometimes fields don’t match properly. Instead of dealing with these issues manually in Excel or another spreadsheet program, let's use Legato.
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LDC #102: Dialog Boxes Part V — Introduction to the Data Control
Sometimes it is desirable to display tables of information and allow user to edit the data on the sheet directly. Novaworks’ products employ a table data editing platform that in many ways operates like MS Excel™ and provides a high level of flexibility. It is used for XBRL editing, EDGAR Forms, and much more. In this article, I will introduce the data control.
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LDC #101: Page Break Template Manager, Part 3
Last week, we added a modify dialog for our page break style manager, to let us rename and delete page break styles. This got us to a point where we have what I’d consider “minimal functionality” required to have a useful script, but let’s take it a step further, and add in a re-order function. It’s very useful to be able to shuffle the order around so you can have all styles, for a single client, grouped together. You don’t have to constantly search through a list anymore. While we’re at it, we can add in functionality to disable buttons if they are not applicable to our selection. For example, if we don’t have a selection, everything should be disabled. if we have the top list item selected, the move up button should be disabled, because we obviously can’t move the top item up even higher. The opposite applies to the bottom selection.
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SEC to Release EDGAR 18.3
The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to release EDGAR 18.3 in October 2018. The EDGAR Filer Manual (Volume II) will also be updated to Version 48 with this release. These changes will take effect on October 1 if approved (for non-rule based changes; see the SEC Final Rules posted here for rule-based changes and their implementation dates).
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LDC #100: Page Break Template Manager, Part 2
Last week, we discussed how to add page breaks into the page break template with a Legato script. As useful as that is, without a way to delete them or rename them, the function isn’t really complete. To do that, we’re making a page break manager this week. This will give us a new menu option, “Modify Page Break Templates”, which lets us manage our stored page breaks.
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Tuesday, August 28. 2018
SEC Fee Rate Advisory #1 for Fiscal Year 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that in fiscal year 2019 the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the Commission will be set at $121.20 per million dollars.
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LDC #99: Page Break Template Manager
This is a script I’ve wanted to write for a while, because it makes it significantly easier to use custom page breaks in GoFiler. For a long time, GoFiler has supported page break style templates, which let you save and customize a list of page headers and footers. Using this script, you’ll be able to add, remove, and edit entries in that template file without having to edit the HTML.
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Wednesday, August 22. 2018
SEC Adopts Rule Amendments to Improve Municipal Securities Disclosure
On August 20th, the SEC adopted amendments to improve transparency in the municipal securities market by better informing investors about the current financial condition of issuers of municipal securities and obligated persons. These amendments concern Rule 15c2-12 of the Securities Exchange Act and focus on the material financial obligations that could influence an issuer’s liquidity, overall creditworthiness, or an existing security holder’s rights.
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SEC Adopts Amendments to Simplify and Update Disclosure Requirements
On August 17th, the SEC voted to approve amendments to certain disclosure requirements that have become duplicative, overlapping, or outdated. These changes were proposed in light of other disclosure requirements, modifications to US-GAAP, or developments in the information environment. The SEC is also referring to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) particular disclosure requirements that overlap with but require information incremental to GAAP. These requirements will be considered for incorporation into US GAAP.
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LDC #98: Conditionals, If You Want Me To
Language directives allow you to change the code the programming language sees when it runs. We’ve talked a little bit about directives before, but today I will take a look at a subset of directives: conditionals. Conditionals allow a programmer to add or remove sections of code based on the existence of other directives. This means that it’s easy to build larger suites of code while allowing sections of code to be taken out without causing errors during runtime.
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Friday, August 10. 2018
LDC #97: Creating a Filing Calendar
Everyone in the EDGAR industry has experienced the customer who wants to know what the filing deadline is. For most companies the deadlines are easily found using a search engine. But what happens when your customer has an unusual fiscal year end? You can scramble to figure it out or you can just plug numbers into this week’s blog script does all the date calculations for you.
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LDC #96: Data Compression - Part I
Various forms of data compression are employed all over the computing world. In many instances, you may need to read compressed data or create your own. This article is the first in a series about data compression and the tools available within Legato. We will start with an overview and then dive into the ubiquitous zip method by creating a little program to zip a project.
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