9.2 Content Suppression Rules

Report Authority can suppress report content from being included in any export (such as printing, PDF, Word, XBRL etc.) based on the results of content suppression rules. This can allow for the suppression of table rows or columns, a segment, or an entire folder of segments.

The process for suppressing report content is to first create a suppression rule, and then assign the suppression rule to the content to be suppressed.

Suppression rules are created by selecting the Add button in the Rules panel and selecting the rule type Content Suppression.

Unlike validation rules, the expressions must resolve to either True, or False. Any report content that has a suppression rule that evaluates to True assigned to it will be suppressed from all report output.

In the example above, a rule has been programmed that will return a true if property plant and equipment is 0 in both the current and the prior period. Notice the Result preview on the bottom - it is currently False. This means that a balance exists in either current or prior period objects. Any report content that has been assigned this suppression rule will not be suppressed.

By selecting at least one numeric data object in the report and pressing Auto-Generate Suppression Rule... button in the right-click menu, you can automatically create new content suppression rules.

This significantly enhances efficiency, making it fast and straightforward to define rules across large data sets.