Troubleshooting

This category contains articles to help troubleshoot issues that may occur during the creation and validation of XBRL reports.

Articles

Fixing Empty Element Names
When working on an XBRL report in GoFiler, it is possible to get a custom element into a state where the element has a label, exists in the custom fields table, but does not have an element name. This is a bit of an odd, undefined state, that will c...
Encountering warnings with dei:EntityShellCompany validation
EDGAR 19.2 includes validation requirements for the Document and Entity Information (or DEI) that must be included with XBRL and Inline XBRL filings. Among them is validation of the dei:EntityShellCompany element. This element indicates if a company...