Filing Report Validation

When you generate your filing report, CDM runs a validation process to identify any possible errors in the report.

Detailed validation information is available in a separate Microsoft™ Excel worksheet. You can see details about successful actions, and also about errors and warnings.

If the report contains data point errors, the invalid data points are not output to the XBRL instance document. For example, values are not output to the XBRL instance in the following situations:

• Invalid ordinates (through query binding)
• Invalid dimensions
• Missing dimensions
• Invalid metrics
• The same data point is reported multiple times in the same form
• The same data point from different forms is reported with inconsistent values

If all data points in a report are invalid, the XBRL instance document is generated with no values.

When you generate a filing report, CDM automatically generates a snapshot at the same time. The snapshot contains the XBRL file and an Excel document with the validation result as a separate worksheet.