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· Columbus Realtors’ Offices Closing Early Friday, December 30 – 4PM   12/30/2016
· RESOLVED: Temporary Issue with Auditor Links to Franklin County   12/21/2016
· Holiday Schedule: Christmas and New Year’s   12/19/2016
· Columbus Realtors’ Offices Closing Early Friday, December 16 – Noon   12/16/2016
· RESOLVED: Flexmls Connectivity Issues   12/14/2016
· Released 12/21/16: Flexmls Web: Relabeled Quick Launch Bar   12/14/2016
· MLS Committee Election Results for 2017   12/12/2016
· RESOLVED – Updated 12/9/16 – Flexmls email delivery issues — att.net and sbcglobal.net   12/09/2016
· Crime Alert: Using Vacant Property for Package Delivery   12/07/2016
· RESOLVED -Updated 12/07/16 – Realist PDF’s Unavailable   12/07/2016
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Columbus Realtors’ Offices Closing Early Friday, December 30 – 4PM

Columbus Realtors’ offices will close at 4PM on Friday, December 30. CR offices will open for normal business hours on Tuesday, Jan 3rd, 2017

Schedule:
Friday, December 30, 2016 – Closed at 4:00pm
Tuesday, January 3, 2017- Open at 8:30am

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12/30/2016

RESOLVED: Temporary Issue with Auditor Links to Franklin County

12/21 9:45am: Franklin County has confirmed resolution of the issue on their end and MLS confirms as well. This is the auditor forward issue that began late evening on 12/20. MLS will monitor for any other minor issues and work with the Franklin County auditor if any new issues are found.

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12/21/2016

Holiday Schedule: Christmas and New Year’s

Columbus REALTORS® offices will be closed on the Monday following each of the holidays of Christmas and New Year’s.  Offices will reopen for normal business hours on the Tuesday following each holiday, December 27 and January 3.

Holiday Schedule:
Monday, December 26 – Closed
Tuesday, December 27- Open at 8:30am

Monday, January 2 – Closed
Tuesday, January 3 – Open at 8:30am

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!

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12/19/2016

Columbus Realtors’ Offices Closing Early Friday, December 16 – Noon

Columbus Realtors’ offices will close at noon on Friday, December 16 for the annual staff Christmas party. CR offices will open for normal business hours on Monday.

Schedule:
Friday, December 16, 2016 – Closed at 12:00pm
Monday, December 19, 2016- Open at 8:30am

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12/16/2016

RESOLVED: Flexmls Connectivity Issues

There appears to have been a short period of slowness or inaccessibility to the Flexmls system from approximately 6:30pm-7:00pm that affected some users but not others.

As of 7:00pm, FBS has indicated the network has appeared to stabilize. Access and speed to the Flexmls issue appears to have been fully restored.

As of 9:30pm, after MLS technical support and FBS monitoring reports and access, FBS has indicated the network issues have been resolved.

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12/14/2016

Released 12/21/16: Flexmls Web: Relabeled Quick Launch Bar

Per FBS Announcement : On December 21, the Quick Launch bar will be relabeled in Flexmls Web to make its functionality more intuitive. Instead of displaying text that says Quick Launch when not in use, the Quick Launch bar will display text that says Enter Address, City, ZIP, MLS#, or Menu Item.

Please Note: The Quick Launch functionality will not change.

The updated text indicates just some of the different items that the Quick Launch can search. Clicking on the Quick Launch bar allows you to access your Recent and Draft searches and by typing at least two characters into the bar, you can access the following:

  • Saved Searches
  • Quick Search Templates
  • Your Contacts
  • CMAs
  • Listing Collections
  • Members and Offices
  • Listing Addresses
  • MLS numbers
  • Menu Items.

You can also search for listings by typing basic search criteria such as price, status, beds, baths, city and more into the Quick Launch bar. For more information, click on the links below for a few videos provided by the vendor, FBS.
Quick Launch Video Tutorial (2 min)
Quick Launch Webinar (15 min)

Updated – Original Post on 12/12/2016

 

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MLS Committee Election Results for 2017

Congratulations to our newly elected MLS Committee members for 2017:

Representing the 101-500 Listing Category
Ben Calhoon

Representing the 1001-3000 Listing Category
Holly Lockett

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12/12/2016

RESOLVED – Updated 12/9/16 – Flexmls email delivery issues — att.net and sbcglobal.net

Update 12/9 8:19 AM: Our vendor FBS states “After monitoring email delivery for the last day, we believe this issue to be completely resolved. Thanks for your patience, and our apologies for the inconvenience that this has caused”

Update 12/8 10:12 AM: Our vendor FBS states “AT&T has processed our block removal request, and they began accepting our emails at around 6pm Central on Dec 7th. We’re currently monitoring the situation to make sure that they continue to be delivered as expected, and will resolve this issue once we are comfortable that all of the issues have completely cleared up.”

Update 12/7 3:30pm:  We’ve determined that there are some other domains under the AT&T’s control that are also affected. The complete list of affected domains is as follows:
att.net
ameritech.net
flash.net
nvbell.net
pacbell.net
prodigy.net
sbcglobal.net
snet.net
swbell.net
wans.net

At this time, we’re still waiting on a response from AT&T regarding this issue, so don’t have an ETA on a resolution. We’ll update this incident when we receive more information.

 

Previous Updates: Following the Dec 2nd issues that delayed the sending of Flexmls email notifications, AT&T’s email systems detected the change in our mail sending pattern/schedule, and automatically blocked all emails that are coming from our servers. This affects the majority of emails that are being sent to recipients with addresses on the att.net and sbcglobal.net domains.

A recommended solution would be to check  if your client has a secondary email address other than att.net or sbcglobal.net.

The vendor of Flexmls, FBS, detected this issue and reached out to AT&T on the morning of Dec 5th, and are awaiting a response from their postmaster team.

 

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12/09/2016

Crime Alert: Using Vacant Property for Package Delivery

A vacant home in Dublin was being used as a shipping address by criminals who had stolen the identity of someone and were having their purchases sent to the house. The police are involved. Please take care to protect property/listings that are vacant. In addition to making sure all doors and windows are properly closed and locked, check on the property regularly. You can also notify neighbors and/or the police to keep an eye on the property.

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12/07/2016

RESOLVED -Updated 12/07/16 – Realist PDF’s Unavailable

Update at 9:37AM 12/07/16: Realist states “The technical teams completed the work on the load balancer overnight.  Testing and monitoring indicates Realist print, save and email functionality has been fully restored and the performance issues have been resolved.  We will continue to monitor and will alert you if anything changes.

We thank you for your patience and understanding as we worked toward resolution. We sincerely regret this inconvenience this has caused to you and your members.”

Update at 5:07PM 12/06/16: The technical teams have restored Realist PDF generation function, however there remains an issue with the load-balancer which is resulting in slower than usual rendering of the PDF reports and errors in some cases.  The technical teams will address the load balancer concerns tonight after peak hours to resolve the lingering performance issues.

Update at 1:52PM 12/06/16: Realist states “We thank you for your patience and understanding while we continue to work to restore Realist print/save/email functionality.  The technical teams have identified the issue and are making great strides toward a resolution.

We anticipate PDF generation to be restored in the near future, however we do not yet have an exact timeframe for restoration.  We will update you as soon as we have more information to share.

We sincerely regret this inconvenience this causes you and your members.”

Update at 9:12AM 12/06/16: Realist states “The technical teams have been working through the night and consulting with Adobe specialists, but have not yet reached a resolution.  Realist is still experiencing an issue with PDF’s while saving, printing or emailing reports. We thank you for your patience and understanding while we continue to work toward resolution.

We sincerely regret this inconvenience this causes you and your members.”

Update at 8:30AM 12/06/16: No change from Realist. We will update this post when we have further details.

Update at 6PM 12/05/16: We regret that Realist is still experiencing an issue with PDF’s while saving, printing or emailing reports. We thank you for your patience while the technical teams continue to work to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We will provide updates as they are available.

Original Post:Realist is currently experiencing an issue with PDF’s while saving, printing or emailing reports. Realist’s technical teams are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

We will provide updates as they are available.

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