On June 28, 2018, the SEC voted to adopt amendments to the XBRL reporting requirements that would require registrants to use the Inline XBRL format for the submission of financial statement information and fund risk/return summary information.
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SEC Mandates Inline XBRL
SEC Approves Final Rules and Proposes New Requirements in Latest Open Meeting
On June 28, 2018, the SEC held an open meeting in which they presented several final, approved rules and new rule proposals. Taken together, these changes represent progress toward many of the Commission’s priorities.
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SEC Publishes Draft Strategic Plan on Investors, Innovation, and Performance
On June 19, 2018, the SEC published a draft strategic plan that focuses on investors, innovation, and performance as top strategic goals in the coming years. This draft will guide the SEC’s policies and priorities through fiscal year 2022.
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If you’re a long time reader of the developers corner, you may remember that last April I talked about using collaboration tasks in GoFiler through Legato. I shared a short script that read any tasks attached to a project upon opening a project and had Legato post the tasks in the Information View. Today I would like to present a modification to the script while introducing the email function. This script will also require a basic understanding of how HTML is formed and how CSS style data is stored in HTML.
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Friday, June 15. 2018
LDC #89: Automating Other Applications Through Legato Part 2
A few weeks back I wrote a blog about automating Internet Explorer using OLE and Legato. In that blog, I mentioned we would be adding more OLE automation capabilities as newer versions of GoFiler and Legato were released. Now that version 4.22c of the GoFiler line of products is out, the increased OLE automation functionality of Legato is available. Today I will discuss how to use it and give a small example of what it can do.
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XBRL US Data Quality Committee Approves Sixth Ruleset for IFRS and US GAAP Filings
On May 31, 2018 the XBRL US Center for Data Quality has released the sixth set of 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. The sixth release of rules includes guidance for issuers using either the US-GAAP or IFRS taxonomies.
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LDC #88: Dialog Boxes Part IV — Combo Boxes
A combo box is a great tool to allow users to select options. Combo boxes, as the name implies, combine the functionality of an edit control with that of a list box. In this article we will look at the functionality of combo boxes and explore their implementations.
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XBRL US Seeks Input On XBRL For Earnings Announcements
XBRL US is seeking input from SEC-registered public companies as to the possibility of using XBRL for earnings announcements, either for a press release or a Form 8-K filing of an earnings announcement.
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SEC Requests Comments on Fund Retail Investor Experience and Disclosure
On June 5, 2018, the SEC voted to improve the experience of investors who invest in mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other investment funds by releasing the Investment Company Disclosure and Delivery Rulemaking Package. This package contains three separate but related releases that are part of a long-term project led by the Division of Investment Management to explore the modernization of the design, delivery, and content of fund disclosures.
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LDC #87: Using Progress Bars
Legato is an interpreted language, but even so, it performs quite quickly. Most scripts will execute within a second or so, even if it’s the script contains relatively complex HTML parsing or something similar. However, occasionally there are scripts that iterate over extremely large data sets, or work with file IO, or really do anything that can take a long time. If the script is just running, unless you put up some sort of a progress bar, it might look like the application has frozen to the user. Therefore, it’s really important to put up a progress bar to let the user know what’s going on with the script. I’ve put together a simple example script of a progress bar below, but let’s talk about how to use one first.
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SEC Proposes FAIR Act Rules to Promote Research Reports on Investment Funds
On May 23, 2018, the SEC proposed new rules and amendments that would promote research on mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, registered closed-end funds, business development companies, and similar investment funds. These changes would reduce obstacles often encountered in providing research on investment funds by aligning the treatment of such reports with research on other public entities. The Congressional mandate of the Fair Access to Investment Act of 2017 (FAIR ACT) underlies the SEC’s actions in proposing these changes.
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LDC #86: Uncovering the Storage Vault
Computers are amazing at creating things like photos, videos, papers, books, Powerpoint presentations, and the ultimate combination of all of the above: Grumpy Cat memes. An essential but often invisible part of computers is the storage space where all of this stuff goes: hard drives, network drives, and other physical storage space. These things are required to make your computer work the way it should, but they do a very good job at not calling attention to themselves. However, knowing that storage spaces exist and how you can interact with them can help you later on when you want to create programs and scripts that require certain types of storage to be available.
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Friday, May 18. 2018
LDC #85: Math Functions in Legato
For this week’s blog we are going to create a simple calculator using Legato. Legato offers a wide variety of math functions that we can use to program the calculator. Before we get started coding, let’s think about the parts of the script we will need. First there will need to be a user interface. In our case, a dialog works perfectly. Secondly, we need to have a way to store operands, and a floating point number is good choice here. If we use only an integer the user cannot do decimal math. Finally, we will need to have operation processing. For this we will use Legato’s math functions. To begin I am going to set up the basics of the dialog, and we can add the processing together.
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SEC Launches Additional Investor Protection Search Tool
The SEC announced on May 2nd that it will launch an additional online search tool that will help investors in researching whether persons trying to sell them investments has a judgment or order against them in an enforcement action. This new tool, the SEC Action Lookup for Individuals (SALI), is intended to assist the public in making informed investment decisions and avoiding financial fraud.
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Friday, May 11. 2018
LDC #84: Dialog Boxes Part III — List Boxes
Allowing the user to select items or review lists of data is fundamental to many interfaces. For one or two items, radio buttons or check boxes can work, but for more complex data, a list box can be a good choice. In this blog, I will cover the ‘listbox’ common control, one of many methods of presenting and managing lists of data.
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