Compliance-first EAP

EAP release notes: continuations across sections and root abstracts

Written by Vicosight | May 25, 2026, 7:00:00 AM

Released on 25 May 2026.

This release lets you add content from a section in the middle of a continuation chain, so long disclosures that run across several sections stay together in one tag. You can also assign a root abstract to a fact from the Inspector, and nested tagging now protects you from duplicate and invalid tag combinations.

What's new

Continuations across sections

Long text disclosures, such as a note that is split across several sections of your report, are tagged as one text block using a continuation chain. Previously, once a chain ran from an earlier section to a later one, you couldn't bring content from a section in between into it. You can now insert a continuation block into the middle of a chain that spans the sections before and after, and Vicosight updates the links on both sides so the chain keeps following the order of your document. This means the full disclosure stays in a single tag, wherever its parts sit in the report.

How it works

  1. In the section in between, select the content and apply the concept that's already used by the chain.
  2. Vicosight recognises that the concept is in use in the sections before and after, and asks what you'd like to do.
  3. Choose to insert the selection into the existing chain, create a duplicate fact instead, or cancel.

Root abstracts in the Inspector

An ESEF report doesn't just list tagged facts; it groups them into sections of a presentation hierarchy, such as the statement of financial position. Rather than asking you to manage the technical roles behind those sections, Vicosight now lets you choose a human-readable root abstract. The Inspector has a new Presentation tab with a searchable Root Abstract list, showing the top-level abstract concepts from the ESEF taxonomy by their labels. Assign one to a fact and Vicosight manages the underlying presentation section for you. Facts without a root abstract are placed under notes and other explanatory information by default.

For context, the ESMA ESEF Reporting Manual asks for the Inline XBRL report to carry a structured, human-readable hierarchy of its tagged information, known as the presentation linkbase.

Looking ahead

Next, you'll be able to assign a single root abstract to an entire table.

Safer nested tagging

When a piece of text or a number represents more than one fact, you can layer tags on top of each other. We've added guardrails to keep those layers valid. Vicosight now stops you from applying the same concept with the same context twice to the same content, and lets you know when you try. It also checks which tags can sit inside which: a text tag can contain text or numeric tags, while a numeric tag can only contain other numeric tags. When you nest one numeric tag inside another, its context, unit, decimals and scale are copied from the outer tag, and you can still change them if needed.

Changelog

Tagging

New

  • Insert a continuation block into a chain that spans the sections before and after, when you can edit every section involved.
  • Assign a root abstract to an individual fact from the Presentation tab in the Inspector.

Improvements

  • You're now prevented from applying the same tag twice to the same content.
  • Nested tags follow the allowed combinations of text and numeric tags, and a nested numeric tag inherits its context, unit, decimals and scale from the tag around it.

Editor

Improvements

  • Images are now handled as inline content, which prevents layout problems when an image is placed in a table cell.