A new Delayed Showing Authorization Form has been created and adopted for use with listings that utilize a future Showing Start Date. The form is required for any listing for which the Showing Start Date is after the List Date. (Example: List Date June 1, Showing Start Date June 10.)

Brokers are permitted to formulate their own version of the form provided the substitute form contains at least the same requirements as the MLS version of the form.

Download the Delayed Showing Authorization Form

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06/24/2016

The Showing Start Date will be limited to a maximum of 30 days in the future from the list date per MLS committee and Board of Directors’ decision.

If originally set less than 30 days in the future, it can be extended. The extension cannot be further out than 30 days from the original List Date. This policy will be effective immediately based on the ability of the vendor to implement the changes. Current listings where the Showing Start Date is more than 30 days out will not be affected.

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Coffee Break Class – Using Quick Launch

Join us for this 15 minute online-only webinar that will show you the benefit of starting your search using Quick Launch.

Tuesday, Jun 07, 2016
11am

Can’t clear your schedule for the live webinar? Register anyway! You will be emailed a link to view the recorded webinar even if you do not attend. (link will be sent a few days after the webinar)

Register now!

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7886161762949765121

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

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Flexmls Pro – the Android app

Join us for an online-only webinar overview of Flexmls Pro – the Android App and see the latest updates!

Tuesday, Jun 14, 2016
2pm

Can’t clear your schedule for the live webinar? Register anyway! You will be emailed a link to view the recorded webinar even if you do not attend. (link will be sent a few days after the webinar)

Register now!

https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8097846338599406593

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

View System Requirements

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06/06/2016

FBS (our MLS vendor) will be applying updates to their storage systems between 5:00AM-6:00AM (Eastern) on the morning of Tuesday, May 24th. The system will be completely unavailable for at least 15 minutes during this maintenance window.

FBS has informed us that the upgrade is necessary to ensure system stability and apologizes for the short notice.

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05/23/2016

CoreLogic will be performing Realist system maintenance on the evening of May 21, 2016 from 11:00 pm to 12:00 am. Realist may be intermittently unavailable during this maintenance period.

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05/18/2016

This issue with photo upload should now be resolved.  This also affected update delays for the display of listing changes on Android devices in the Flexmls Pro app.  This Android delay should also now be resolved. If you are still experiencing issues uploading listing photos, please empty your cache and try again.  If the problem persists, please contact technical support.

Original Issue Reported May 9, 2016:
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Starting at around 11am today, we have noticed some issues with the photo upload ability within the Flexmls system. When attempting to use the photo uploader, it’s very likely that you’ll either receive an error message on the photo uploading process, or, if you are able to load a photo, you’ll get items that display like below:

At this time, if you are seeing the errors messages or blank photos as seen above, there is nothing you are doing incorrectly. This issue is affecting all users of the MLS system. At this time, we do not have an work around and our advice is to hold off on using the uploader until we provide further details.

This post was added recently as our MLS vendor, FBS, has confirmed the issue and is currently working towards a fix. At this time, they did not provide us with an ETA as to when the issues would be resolved. When we find out more, we will update this post.

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05/09/2016

The Showing Start Date field has been added to the top of public and private reports in the MLS.  It was added to the Full Report (1 page), Full 2-page report, and Brief with Photos report.  The field appears directly below the List Price/Original List Price fields at the top right corner of these reports.  Previously, the field was displayed only at the bottom of the private reports.

The Board of Directors felt this was a high priority change since the Showing Start Date directly impacts buyers.  They felt the field should be made much more prominent so that the buyers were aware of this critical field.   Please make sure your clients know about Showing Start Date and that they will not be able to enter the property until the Showing Start Date passes.

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05/05/2016

CoreLogic will be performing Realist system maintenance on the evening of Saturday April 30, 2016 from 11:00 pm to 12:00 am EDT. Realist may be intermittently unavailable during this maintenance period.

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04/29/2016

On May 4, users will be able to decide what happens when their client clicks a link in subscription email.  The link can go to the news feed as it does now (this will remain the default), only the listings in the email that was clicked, or all of the listings that match the saved search. In addition to this, the Portal menu design will change to allow easier access to the user’s saved searches.

Users Can Customize Their Portal Preferences
There is a new Portal Preference: Listing links from email show: This setting determines what happens when a recipient clicks a listing link in a subscription email. By default, it is set to the MLS Default option (the option also tells you what the MLS Default is).

If you would like to change where subscription links open, go to Preferences > Portal Preferences and choose one of the other available options:

• News Feed – Subscription links will open in the recipient’s news feed showing the selected listing. As before, the news feed contains up to 200 of the most recent listings your contact has received from their subscriptions. Your contact can use the menu to navigate to their Searches, Saved Listings, Custom Collections, and more.
• Emailed Listings – Subscription links will open showing only the listings in the recipient’s subscription email. If it is an ASAP subscription, there will not be a List tab as there is only one listing to view. Your contact can use the menu to navigate to their News Feed, Saved Searches, Saved Listings, Custom Collections, and more.

·  Saved Searches – Subscription links will open to the selected listing within the Saved Search that generated the email. Your contact can use the menu to navigate to their News Feed, different Saved Searches, Saved Listings, Custom Collections, and more.
Please Note: If you set a Portal Preference other than the MLS Default, it will become the default for all of your contacts.

Set the Subscription Landing Page for a Specific Contact
To set the subscription email landing page for specific contacts, go to Contact Management, select a contact, and click the Portal tab. Select Change Settings and then set the Listing links from email show: option.

Please Note: This selection applies to the selected contact only and takes precedence over your general Portal Preference setting.

Preview Mode and the Subscription Landing Page
If you set a contact’s subscription Preview Mode to On, the recipient will always go directly to News Feed when they click an email link to view approved listings regardless of what Listing links from email show is set to for the user or in your Portal Preferences.

Updated Portal Menu Design
The order of the Portal Menu items will change to allow easier access to the searches saved for the portal user. The News Feed will stay at the top, the next section will contain all the contact’s available searches (and a New Search link for Flexmls IDX subscribers), and the last section will contain Listing Collections (Saved, Hidden, Recommended, and custom collections), manually emailed listings, and any reports sent to the contact via Flexmls. Previously, Listing Collections appeared above Saved Searches in the Menu.

Please note: Only the order of the menu items is changing; labels and custom collections will remain the same. This design change applies to all MLSs, regardless of what the preference User can set their contacts’ subscription emails to open in the news feed, emailed listings or saved search is set to.

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04/25/2016

On April 26, the Flexmls system will begin using new security (SSL) certificates. This upgrade is necessary because all major browsers are already, or soon will be, restricting access to sites that don’t use SHA-2 certificates. You can read more about this issue here and here.

Click here to test your browser’s compatility with SHA-2:

http://www.flexmls.com/securitytest

Please test each computer and browser you use to access the Flexmls system.  Different browsers on the same computer or different computers running the same browser need to be tested independently.

How will this affect users?
Users who already have up-to-date browsers and computers (or phones, tablets, and other devices) should not even notice this change. Users with older browsers may have problems accessing the Flexmls system.

What if my browser fails and is not compatible?
If the test page says Fail, your browser or computer will need to be upgraded to a version that supports SHA-2. You can find compatibility charts at the following web sites:
https://support.globalsign.com/customer/portal/art…/1499561-sha-256-compatibility
https://www.digicert.com/sha-2-compatibility.htm

Once the computer and browser have been updated to the most recent version, check the test page again and you should pass.

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04/21/2016