In December 2008, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandated that public companies using U.S. GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) with a worldwide public float of at least $5 billion could submit their financial statements in XBRL format, starting with their first fiscal period on or after June 15, 2009.

For a few years before that, the SEC had had an XBRL voluntary program through which companies could submit their financial results in XBRL format. Some countries already have various degrees of XBRL mandates in place. Other countries have XBRL initiatives in place whereby financial information can be submitted in XBRL format.

So what is Information Builders doing with XBRL? With Developer Studio 7.6.9 and WebFOCUS Reporting Server 7.7, WebFOCUS Financial Reports can be developed encompassing all of the mappings necessary for the XBRL Instance Document creation. One of the benefits of this solution is that an extract is not needed in order to perform the various XBRL mappings. Any data source accessible to WebFOCUS can be used. All XBRL mappings are performed within the Developer Studio environment.

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In Developer Studio 7.7.01, we have added additional functionality to support Detailed Footnote Tagging.
TextBlock support current exists in the 7.7.0 Reporting Server.

Below is a simple example of how General Ledger data gets mapped to the components needed in creating an
XBRL Instance document. There are other components we support like Dimensions, TextBlocks, Tuples, and Footnotes
which are not included in the example.

-* File XBRLdemo_Publish.fex
-*TBLXBRL_STRT
SET CNOTATION = PRINTONLY
APP HOLD xbrl
-*TBLXBRL_END
TABLE FILE CENTURY_FINANCIALS
-*FFW.XBRL
SUM
ACTUALS AS 'FACT'
COMPUTE ACCURACY/A20 = '-3'; AS 'DECIMALS'
COMPUTE CURRENCY/A20 = 'USD'; AS 'MEASURE_UNIT'
BY BUSINESS_UNIT AS 'SEGMENT001'
BY PERIOD AS 'TIMEFRAME'
BY TOTAL COMPUTE SCHEME/A30 = 'http://www.sec.gov/CIK'; AS 'IDENTIFIER_SCHEME'
BY TOTAL COMPUTE TICKER/A20 = '0000077476'; AS 'IDENTIFIER_VALUE'
BY TOTAL COMPUTE AMOUNT_TYPE/A20 = 'unaudited'; AS 'SCENARIO001'
FOR
GL_ACCOUNT
'0000002' AS 'OperatingRevenue' LABEL R1 OVER
'0000004' AS 'ProvisionIncomeTaxes' LABEL R2 OVER
'0000007' AS 'OtherNonOperatingIncomeExpense' LABEL R3 OVER
'0000008' AS 'InterestIncomeExpenseNet' LABEL R4 OVER
'0000012' AS 'CostGoodsServicesSold' LABEL R5 OVER
'0000014' AS 'SellingGeneralAdministrativeExpenses' LABEL R6
HEADING
""
FOOTING
""
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET ASNAMES MIXED
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE HOLD AS XBRL_INSTANCE FORMAT XBRL TAXONOMY 'C:\ibi\apps\xbrl\eng-20080331.xsd'
ON TABLE SET BLANKINDENT ON
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=9,
$
TYPE=TITLE,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=TABHEADING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=TABFOOTING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=HEADING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=FOOTING,
SIZE=12,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=SUBHEAD,
SIZE=10,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=SUBFOOT,
SIZE=10,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=SUBTOTAL,
BACKCOLOR=RGB(210 210 210),
$
TYPE=ACROSSVALUE,
SIZE=9,
$
TYPE=ACROSSTITLE,
STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=GRANDTOTAL,
BACKCOLOR=RGB(210 210 210),
STYLE=BOLD,
$
ENDSTYLE
END
-*TBLXBRL_POSTFIX_STRT
-SET &INSTANCE_DOCUMENT = 'xbrl/xbrl_instance.xml';
-INCLUDE XBRLVAL
-*TBLXBRL_POSTFIX_END