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Duplicate MLS numbers -Jan 2010 |
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There were an instance at the beginning of this week where a duplicate MLS numbers was coming through the Regional MLS system of West Palm Beach, FL. On the surface, this doesn't seem too big of an issue but it can cause havoc on web sites that run on Regional IDX.
MLS numbers are unique numbers identifying properties from one another. Obviously, if there are two numbers exactly the same, this is going to cause an issue. Regional IDX corrected the issue on all hosted web sites and notified Regional MLS personnel of the issue.
It doesn't happen very often, just a few times a year, but it does happen. No suprise that it's happening at the beginning of the new year since most technology companies implement changes during this time.
All is well now!
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Regional MLS adds "Status Change Date" |
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Regional MLS, who serves the greater Palm Beach County, has added recently released 1 public fields to IDX for web sites. It is as follows:
- Status Change Date = the date the status was changed on the listing.
REGIONAL MLS RECENTLY ADDED 1 FIELD
I'm not certain why this field was added to be made publicly available.
The Regional MLS (and other MLS's across the country) have a terrible habit of changing items without notifying their constituents. This causes issues with web sites that use IDX, or direct feeds from the MLS. These changes caught us off-guard and caused a few hiccups with our IDX web sites.
Since there is no forewarning of changes happening, the issue becomes that we don't know there is a change until it actually happens. In our experience, Regional MLS usually has issues implementing these changes causing a disconnect between MLS and the IDX. The Regional MLS RETS server becomes unavailable for various reasons. It usually takes Regional MLS a few days to hammer out these types of additions.
In this case, the there was no downtime.
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Regional MLS adds "Street" |
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Regional MLS, who serves the greater Palm Beach County, has added recently released 5 public fields to IDX for web sites. They are as follows:
- Street Number = allows the Street Number to be publicly displayed
- Street Name = allows the Street Name of the property to be publicly displayed
- Street Directional = allows the Street directional (N, S, E, W) to be publicly displayed
- Street Suffix = allows the Street Suffix (ST, AVE, DR, LN, TERR) to be publicly displayed
- Total Baths =allows the total number of Baths to be displayed.
REGIONAL MLS RECENTLY ADDED 5 FIELDS
These fields are added to attain greater accuracy with the Address. Previously, the there was just one address field. Now there are 4 fields that create the whole address. For example:
Address = 100 N Main St
now becomes
Street Number = 100
Street Directional = N
Street Name = Main
Street Suffix = St
In addition, the TOTAL BATHS field was added. Before it was just FULL BATHS & HALF BATHS.
The Regional MLS (and other MLS's across the country) have a terrible habit of changing items without notifying their constituents. This causes issues with web sites that use IDX, or direct feeds from the MLS. These changes caught us off-guard and caused a few hiccups with our IDX web sites.
Since there is no forewarning of changes happening, the issue becomes that we don't know there is a change until it actually happens. In our experience, Regional MLS usually has issues implementing these changes causing a disconnect between MLS and the IDX. The Regional MLS RETS server becomes unavailable for various reasons. It usually takes Regional MLS a few days to hammer out these types of additions.
In this case, the there was no downtime.
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There were a few instances at the end of last week where duplicate MLS numbers were coming through the Regional MLS system of West Palm Beach, FL. On the surface, this doesn't seem too big of an issue but it can cause havoc on web sites that run on Regional IDX.
MLS numbers are unique numbers identifying properties from one another. Obviously, if there are two numbers, this is going to cause an issue. Regional IDX corrected the issue on all hosted web sites and notified Regional MLS personnel of the issue.
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Regional MLS removes fields |
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Regional MLS, who serves the greater Palm Beach county area, recently removed 2 public fields from the IDX for web sites.
- CDOM (Cumulative Days On Market) = used to allow to show the total number of days the property has been on the market.
- Market Time DOM = used to allow to show the recent number of days the property has been on the market.
REGIONAL MLS RECENTLY REMOVED 3 FIELDS
We can only guess these fields are removed to address security issues arising from outside parties contacting the listing agent, the listing broker or the owner with various concerns. These concerns could be anything from sales product pitches or relisting with a different agent, brokers, etc.
The Regional MLS (and other MLS's across the country) have a terrible habit of changing items without notifying their constituents. This causes issues with web sites that use IDX, or direct feeds from the MLS. These changes caught us off-guard and caused a few hiccups with our IDX web sites.
Since there is no prewarning of changes happening, the issue becomes that we don't know there is a change until it actually happens. In our experience, Regional MLS usually has issues implementing these changes causing a disconnect between MLS and the IDX.
In this case, as far as we know, the Regional MLS RETS server had no issues during the removal of these fields.
However, at one point the LIST DATE was removed. Then it was later re-added. List Date = used to allow to show when the property has been put on the market. This could also be used to show the days on market.
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