Contents - Initialising Templates

Overview

A reporting module can contain many templates - not all will be relevant for every reporting entity. Therefore, it is necessary to specify which templates must be initialised.

Initialising templates consists of two steps:

Selecting the templates; and
Selecting the dimension members if any dimensional templates were chosen in the first step.

Templates can be initialised using the Initialise Templates... button in the Contents menu:

This button will open the following form (the EBA CRD IV Own Funds example):

If Segregation of Duties in enabled, only a Preparer can make any changes to this form.

Step 1 - Selecting the templates

Templates are arranged in template groups (if defined in the XBRL taxonomy).

Templates can contain many tables. By initialising a template, the service will make all tables within that template available. For example, S.19.01.01 - Non-life insurance claims in the EIOPA Solvency II taxonomy can be initialised:

This template consists of many individual tables. Initialising this one template will make all tables available:

There are two different types of tables:

Fixed row tables. These are tables where the number of rows are fixed or have a maximum number of possible rows (for example if a dimension with a fixed number of members is applied on the row dimension [y-axis], such as currencies or countries).
Unlimited row tables. These are tables where the number of rows is unlimited and usually contain transactional, positional or entity-related information.

The type of tables contained within a template is indicated with the use of the following two icons:

This is an example from the EIOPA Solvency II templates.

S.06.01.01 is a summary of assets and all of its tables have a fixed number of rows. The table icon is used.
S.06.02.01 is a template listing all the assets held. There is no limit to the number of rows that can be reported in each table within the template and is indicated with the three parallel lines icon.

In rare cases, a template may contain tables of both types. In this case the template will be indicated through the use of a square icon:

If a template is dimensional and would require the selection of dimension members to be used, a cube icon will be used as an indication. If you look at the screenshot in the Overview section above, you will see the cube icon being used on the templates C 07.00 - C 08.03 & C 08.05. These templates are t=dimensional and you will have to select dimension members in the next step.

Step 2 - Selecting the dimensions

A table can be dimensional across all three axis:

x-axis (Columns). If a dimension is placed on the x-axis, an initialised dimension member will create a new column in the table. An example of this type of template is S.02.02.01 - Material currencies from the EIOPA Solvency II. In this template, for each currency dimension member you initialise, a new column for that current will appear.
y-axis (Rows). If a dimension is placed on the y-axis, an initialised dimension member will create a new row in the table.
z-axis (Sheets). If a dimension is placed on the z-axis, an initialised dimension member will create an entirely new sheet. An example of this type of template is F 20.04 - Geographical breakdown from the EBA FINREP Taxonomy. In this template, for each country dimension member you initialise, a new sheet for that country will appear.

If you have selected any dimensional tables in the first step, a second step, Dimensions, will appear:

The dimensions attached to any axis of the templates selected in the first step will be shown in the second step. The templates that each dimension is relevant for are shown as a suffix to the dimension. For example, in the screenshot above, you can see which templates use the Country dimension (C 09.01, C 09.02 etc).

Grouping of templates

Templates that share dimensions will be grouped together. This prevents the need for selecting the same dimension members across many templates. For example, In EBA CRD IV FINREP, there are 4 templates with countries on the z-axis. Rather than selecting the list of countries four times, you can select from a single list of countries:

Creating dimensionally valid templates

For a template to be dimensionally valid, you must select a member for every dimension relevant to the template. If you do not, the template will be added to the Contents table, but the filing indicator will be fixed to Negative and you will not be able to navigate to the table or report any facts in it.

In the example in the previous screenshot - if you are attempting to initialise these geographic templates but do not select at least one county, the filing indicator will be fixed to Negative for all these templates and you will not be able to navigate to any of the tables or report any facts in them:

Some templates have multiple dimensions applied to them, for example, S.16.01.01 in the EIOPA Solvency II taxonomy:

In this case, you must select at least one member from all four dimensions to be able to report using this template.

Creating and deleting dimension members

Some dimensions are "typed", which means that there are no predefined members in the dimension. In this case the members are created in the XBRL submission. These members are indicated with the green + button.

To create a member, click the Add Member icon as indicated above. Once created, you can delete a member by clicking on the Delete member icon: