New Release (5.4a) for the GoFiler Family of Products

Monday, July 20. 2020

New Release (5.4a) for the GoFiler Family of Products

Version 5.4a of all applications in the GoFiler Suite has been released. This release corresponds to EDGAR 20.2 and contains a number of corrections and improvements for Page View, XDX View (both US GAAP and Risk Return), N-PORT View and Submission View. There have also been a number of improvements to the general application to improve the handling of large files or files with long lines.

For a full list of what is new in this version, please refer to the 5.4a release notes available by clicking on the link below.

Please use the Check for Updates function to update your software to the latest version.

GoFiler Complete 5.4a

General Items

– Text View/Code View and Page View now allow for lines up to 1mb wide (up from 64kb wide).

– Improved the processing of files to allow for files up to 4.2gb (up from about 500mb).

– Added and corrected hot keys for a number of functions.

– Added logic to display the open state for Information and Management Views (the buttons were not highlighted when the views were open).

– Added option to hold the Shift key and force close of Information and Management Views as well as Control Window.

General EDGAR Updates

– Updated to EDGAR 20.2.

– Added an option in the preferences to help mitigate poor EDGAR system response times.

– Improvements to Form 144 form template.

– Corrected the validation of the period field on Form PREM14C.

– Corrected an issue that would occur when entering a large number of characters into the Phone field on a number of EDGAR forms.

– Corrected an issue with the Retrieve SEC Data tool.

N-PORT Updates

– Removed S-1 or S-3 option from the investment company type field.

– Made a number of corrections to the validation.

– Corrected an extraneous internal error when live filing an N-PORT form.

– Corrected an issue with the order of the XML tags for NPORT-NP/A and NPORT-P/A.

– Corrected an issue when retrieving information from the CIK Library when the entry had more than one e-mail address.

N-CEN Updates

– The application will no longer give an erroneous message about the schema version when opening files from the EDGAR system.

Form ABS-EE XML Data File

– Disabled the Undo function in the Data View window.

– Added UTF-8 header support for CSV importing.

– Corrected an issue where the “out of memory” error would leave not be reported and could leave the data sheet in an unstable state.

– Added reporting to the import log to indicate where an import stops if it is not able to be completed.

– Added preallocation to improve performance during import.

– Corrected an issue where the import log would not always appear.

– Improved the display of the progress during the import process.

– Improved the opening and saving of very large files.

Page View and HTML

– Corrected an issue with Paste Native Code resulting in an exception.

– Corrected a problem that occurred when importing divider rules created with paragraph borders on SEC cover pages.

– Added logic to detect conflicting colors with white text when importing from Word.

– Added validation for ‘data:’ scheme and ignoring embedded background images when importing from Word.

– Added an option to convert incoming HTML to XHTML for iXBRL filings when including text using a Text-Include field.

– Corrected an issue that occurred when a file has an excessive amount of errors that would cause the Validate function to stop without reporting a log of the errors.

– Corrected an issue with ‘name’ not being allowed in <a> tags for iXBRL.

– The dialog for the Exhibit Linker options now allows longer Cache Location paths to be set, instead of limiting the number of characters.

– Started implementing embedded images.

– Corrected a minor issue with the operation of the Page View Control Window, where it would close yet appear to be open from the View Ribbon.

– Added CSS Outline shorthand writing to HTML processor.

– Corrected an issue in processing exceptionally large HTML tags resulting in a crash on opening or linking to such as file.

XBRL View

– Added support for the IFRS 2020 taxonomy.

– Added support for the DEI 2020 taxonomy.

– Corrected an issue with DQC 41 and IFRS elements when the axis domain element name is the same as an element in another taxonomy.

XDX

– Added the ability to add a footnote on the table level.

– Added the ability to split a file by split markers.

– The prospectus wizard will now automatically analyze and tag the contents of marked tables.

– Prospectus organization elements can now be selected as part of the Risk Return setup wizard. More generally, prospectus organization should now properly work using XDX with or without the wizard.

– Improved handling of inline facts marked in the same block as a Level 1, 2 or Risk Return text block.

– Corrected an issue that could cause ineffective relationships when using the SEC provided linkbases for Risk Return with XDX.

– Corrected an issue that would cause some facts to be made hidden if the “Special processing for zeroes” is enabled in the advanced options for the element.

– Improved the insertion logic for adding elements to existing Risk Return presentations.

– Advanced positioning options will now work for Risk Return presentations.

– The application now supports numeric facts that use character entities for the digits.

– Corrected an issue that would result in an inappropriate transformation being selected for numeric facts.

– Corrected an issue that would cause tables to be marked with the wrong name when using the Prospectus Wizard.

– GoFiler page breaks will now be automatically marked as excluded in the Prospectus Wizard.

– Corrected an error that would cause some XBRL footnotes to not be processed if the previous XBRL footnote contained any XDX tagging.

iXBRL

– Made adjustments to the organization of the iXBRL Ribbon.

– Corrected an issue where the Remove iXBRL function was not removing coding for facts inside a tagged footnote.

– Added logic to the Remove iXBRL function to remove the META tags, required for iXBRL, not for plain HTML.

– Made significant improvements to the Make XHTML function.

GoFiler 5.3b