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Represents the percentage of the remaining performance obligation to be recognized as revenue in the remainder of the fiscal year.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of the remaining performance obligation to be recognized as revenue after the third fiscal year following the latest fiscal year.

No definition available.

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Represents the percentage of the remaining performance obligation to be recognized as revenue in the second fiscal year following the latest fiscal year.

No definition available.

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Amount of transaction price allocated to performance obligation that has not been recognized as revenue.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 270
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1A
-Subparagraph (e)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84173487&loc=SL51747714-108306

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 606
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (b)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82913847&loc=SL49130556-203045

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

No definition available.