6 Responses to Architecture, Controller

1. charly says:

   October 4, 2012 at 5:00 am

   Hello,

   In the options GUI and command line I do not see how I can create or modify instances or taxonomies. Are these actions referred to somewhere?

   If I work locally without internet connection, do I have any way to use URI map?

   When I validate an instance that contains formulas, I do not see the result of the evaluation of the assertions, Do I have to activate any option to see the result?

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   • admin says:

     October 4, 2012 at 8:58 am

     1) creating or modifying instances or taxonomies: the Arelle user community has preferred to keep the development focus on things not provided by other solutions, they feel there are many other instance and taxonomy creator/editor tools. Anyway it’s in the wish list, for a rainy day, at a low priority.

     However for table linkbases, a table of predefined axis rules can be used to enter instance data (and thus function as an instance editor or in some cases instance creator). (… arelle has the internal functionality needed to construct editors and creators.)

     2) Without internet connection, you can “work offline” and pre-load the Arelle web cache. In the GUI you can find the cache by tools->internet->manage cache.

     In addition to the cache, internet files can be mapped to different local disk locations by the mapping file in arelle’s installed directory/config/mappings.xml. This file can remap web locations to local files or to contents inside zip files on the local disk.

     3) formula assertion results that use messages should be visible in the logger output. If there are no messages, then it is necessary to select the formula option assertion result counts. In the GUI, the formula options are under Tools->formula->parameters. Some are quite verbose and only for debugging. You can also select which formula(s) or assertion(s) to run by their ID(s). The formula options of the GUI dialog are also available from the command line and web service interfaces.

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     • charly says:

       October 4, 2012 at 9:26 am

       Thank you for your quick response

       I can already see the result of the evaluation of the formulas. Perfect!

       Can I get the variables involved in each evaluation?

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       • admin says:

         October 4, 2012 at 9:39 am

         The options under formula->parameters->variables trace will help. I found it most helpful in debugging (small fact sets), to use filter winnowing (because it shows what facts are bound to each variable, and which remain bound to that variable as each filter of the variable completes within the variable set evaluation. But it can be a lot of output. And it can be confusing because some filters cache the results so they only appear to have run once and share their ‘winnowed’ results between different variable set evaluations.

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2. kanagaraj antonysamy says:

   November 8, 2012 at 6:28 pm

   Can it be extended for creating instance document- the data could be either extracted from the excel or keyed in directly ,

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   • admin says:

     November 9, 2012 at 5:01 am

     Yes, using the table linkbase, forms can be created that can be used to key in new instance documents. Table linkbase is supported in 2010 Eurofiling syntax, 2011 “Montreal” syntax, and the soon-to-release 2012 “Oxford” syntax.

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