Arelle GUI - recognizing completion?

[Mike D]

Hi, folks,

I'm attempting to validate a DORA xBRL-CSV on a MacBook Pro using the Arelle GUI (2.37.24)

I can get Arelle to run successfully, and, as I expected, it takes several hours to run.  I can see the various validations tick by in the lower right corner of the GUI, and see occasionally messages written to the message log.  All fine. 

The problem I have is recognizing when Arelle is done (and also when it hangs).  On previous builds of 2.37.x, it would hang more than overnight on a single validation, which I assume means it hung (and, on reruns, it got past that step), but with no obvious indications.

On the latest version, I see it run all the validations, and at the end of the log I see a string of messages like:

[ProfileActivity] ... evaluation 1 112.471 sec - report.xbrl

....

Which seem to indicate it's complete and reporting some diangostics.  However, there's no message that indicates completion, and I still see "evaluating v8860_,_0" in the lower left of the UI window.  Arelle is also still pegging a CPU and consuming 1GB or ram, which I wouldn't expect if it's idle.

Am I being too impatient here (and so it's taking more than 24 hours to process my file)?  Is it hanging somewhere I can recognize?  Is it done but for some reason not releasing resources?  

[Austin Matherne]

Hi Mike,

There should be a message like “Validated in X seconds” once validation completes. From your description, it sounds like the formula validation process may be getting stuck or running out of control.

To help diagnose this, could you please:

1. Can you share the report you’re trying to validate?
2. Confirm which version of Arelle you’re currently running? (Note: version 2.37.24 hasn’t been released yet.)
3. Let us know which earlier version did complete validation successfully, and whether that was using the exact same, unmodified report?

This information will help better understand what’s going wrong.

Best,

Austin Matherne

[Mike D]

Thanks for the reply, Austin.

* Sorry for the typo - this is 2.37.21, which appears to be the latest available for Mac on the download page.  

* I have NEVER seen this run to definite completion - I've seen the new version run longer in the process than previous versions, on the same report.  Again, I don't know how to recognize completion in this case, so maybe it has on this run and it's just thrashing to get the UI dispaly up and running (which I don't need).  I also don't know whether there should be any error logs I might look at. 

* I cannot share the report - a DORA Register of Information (by definition) contains highly proprietary information about my company's technology vendors, our reliance on them, and what we pay for them.  

Mike