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Realist Downtime for Scheduled Maintenance – November 15 – 11pm Realist will be performing system maintenance on the evening of Saturday, November 15 Schedule of Downtime: Realist offline and inaccessible – 11:00 PM Realist access restored – 3:00 AM. Realist will be unavailable during this maintenance period.
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Realist Downtime for Scheduled Maintenance – 1:30am Tuesday, Nov. 11 Realist will be performing system maintenance on the early morning of Tuesday, November 11 Schedule of Downtime: 1:30 AM Realist offline and inaccessible 3:00 AM Realist access restored Realist will be intermittently unavailable during this maintenance period.
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Flexmls for iOS App – Informational Session – Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:30 PM Join our vendor FBS for a Webinar on Wednesday, October 22 on the recently updated iOS Flexmls App Space is limited. Join us for an overview of the Flexmls for iPhone app and see the latest updates! Title: Flexmls for iPhone App – Informational Session
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FBS Security Updates and older web browsers – October 15, 2014 On October 14, 2014, at approximately 8pm CDT, the FBS Hosting team reacted to a vulnerability/exploit (CVE-2014-3566) that was disclosed to the public about an hour earlier. The action taken, on our vendor’s part, was to completely disable SSLv3 on the servers responsible for serving all Flexmls traffic. What this may mean for you is that your browser you are using to access Flexmls is out of date or is using non-standard settings, you will likely have an issue even bringing up the Flexmls system. You do have several options to help assist with access to the system: Make sure the browser that’s being used is as up-to-date as possible for the OS that is being used.
It is still recommended that users upgrade to the latest possible version of whichever browser they’re using (if possible). If the user is running one of these browsers and still having an issue, it may be the case that they have disabled TLS support in their browser.
For most home users, the answer is to look to make sure you are up to date with both your browser’s version or the appropriate Windows or Mac OS updates. The following links can help: For assistance with Windows Updates, you can use the following link: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-update Once you have updated fully for either Windows or Mac OS updates, if you are still having a problem with your browser of choice, your next course of action would be to try a different browser. Flexmls supports recent versions of Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox on Windows systems and Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari on Mac OS. If you are on a computer that is in an office or corporate environment, it is possible your computer may have certain settings or software requirements established by your company’s IT team for the protection of their internal network or provided hardware. You would want to consult your IT team for further assistance regarding this situation. If your IT team has questions, please direct them to our technical support at techsupport@columbusrealtors.com or by phone at 614-475-4000 during regular business hours of Mon-Fri 8:30a – 5:00p.
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Realist Downtime Tuesday Morning – 1am-5am – System Update There will be a scheduled outage for Realist beginning approximately 1am Tuesday morning. There will be intermittent inaccessibility during the update. Service should be restored to normal for Realist by 5am. PLEASE NOTE: MLS access will not be affected, only Realist.
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DOM on the Public Reports; Private Reports no Longer Emailed The DOM field now displays on the CR Full Report for the Public. This field was previously displayed only on the Private version for agents. With the recent change to disallow email of Private reports (see next paragraph), the MLS Committee and Board of Directors have voted to add the DOM (but not CDOM) to the public report. Again, the Cumulative Days on Market (CDOM) will NOT be added to the Public reports. Only DOM will appear on any public report. The Private reports can no longer be emailed to a client. The Private reports contain sensitive information that is intended only for agents. It has long been discouraged that a Private, agent-only report be emailed or even printed and delivered to a client. Volatile, agent-only information such as compensation, A2A Remarks, and agent contact information appear on the Private version. For this reason, the Private reports can no longer be directly emailed to the client from the MLS. The DOM field was added to the Public report specifically to allow agents to email DOM to clients. This was the primary reason agents would previously provide a Private report to clients.
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Subdivision, A2A Remarks, Property Description: Default to “Contains” Auto-Wildcard Searching The Subdivision, A2A Remarks, and Property Description fields now default to searching for text “contained within the field”. That is, if you type “meadow”, these 3 fields will now find the term “meadow” anywhere within the field. (ie Meadowlark Woods, The Meadows, etc) The Property Description field had this functionality already, but Subdivision and A2A Remarks defaulted to “Starts with” previously. If you want to search for a specific subdivision by an “exact matching name”, you can use the “=” (equals sign) for search for “exact matches”. (ie =The Glen will return only that subdivision, not The Glen at Woodside or The Glen at Abbyshire) As always, remember that Subdivision is not a required field at time of listing entry. If the agent chooses not to fill in the field, it will be blank and unsearchable. It is always a good idea to do a “second opinion” search when using the field Subdivision. A second search using a polygon around the subdivision might be a good idea to make sure you didn’t miss any listings that had a “blank” subdivision.
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ASAP Email Notification Issues – Update This information was last updated afternoon of 10/3/14. All major issues with ASAP notification should now be resolved. Some minor issues remain (see below). If you encounter an additional occurrence of one of these issues, please report it to MLS Technical Support. Fixed Issues
Some or all of these issues appear to have begun some time on Friday September 19th, 2014. Any issues still outstanding are currently at a high priority for fixing with FBS (the software vendor that makes Flexmls). As more information is known this article will be updated. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Webinar: Create Your Own One-Line Report – Tuesday, October 7 – 3pm Create your Own One-Line Report with the Flexmls Report Writer • Learn the basic functions of the report writer; Tuesday, October 7, 2014 – 3:00 PM After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. Mac®-based attendees Mobile attendees
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A2A – Seeing All of the Agent to Agent Remarks The CR Full Report is a crowded report with limited space. For this reason, the MLS committee limited the display of the A2A Remarks (Agent to Agent). This means that only the first 2-3 lines of the A2A Remarks will display on the CR Full Report. To view the full 820 characters of the A2A Remarks field, you can simply open, view or print the “Tessera – A2A and Property Description report”. This new report, created with the Tessera report editor will display all 820 characters of the Property Description field as well as all 800 characters of the A2A Remarks field. Please remember that A2A Remarks are intended for Agent to Agent communications only. That means there may be volatile information in that field that should not be provided to the public.
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