For this week’s blog post we are going to start creating a script that will allow users to create a bulk filing for submission to EDGAR. In order to accomplish this we are going to split the blog into three parts: interface, project file processing, and finally the submission creation. Since this is the first blog in the series we are going to start with the interface.

Sorting pictures can be a time consuming task. Many devices such as cell phones and cameras save pictures with sequential numbers. While this is great because we, as the users, don’t need to name our photos as we take them. However, it does mean that sorting the resulting photos can be time consuming. Luckily we can use Legato to create a basic sorting interface. Unlike many of the scripts in this blog this script is intentionally incomplete. It is a basic framework in which you can build your own image processing. You could edit the script to move all of the images into folders based on the specified names. This would sort the pictures into events or groups. You could also edit the script to run a program on the images with names. You could create thumbnails of named images. There are many possibilities including reworking the script to work with more than images.

A little while back I wrote a few blogs on the possibilities of background threads in Legato. For this week we are going to discuss using a Legato background thread to monitor the SEC’s RSS feed of filings. The script checks the SEC’s RSS feed and if a specific CIK is found in the feed, a message box showing the filing information is opened. This script could be adapted to work with any RSS feed, but as it stands the script can help you see when your company’s filings are disseminated to the public.

If you’ve ever needed to merge data files from different sources, you know how infuriating the process can be. Not all systems produce the same formats and sometimes fields don’t match properly. Instead of dealing with these issues manually in Excel or another spreadsheet program, let's use Legato.