Release Notes – 2022.10.13

Release Notes – 2022.10.13

 October 13, 2022

Highlights

  • New Agent Profile Features
    Agent profile pages can now include a “Download Contact Info” button. When enabled, the button generates a vCard formatted contact card that will allow quick and seamless contact importing on most devices. Additionally, users in states where all agents are called brokers can now enable an option to change the text on the “Contact Agent” button to reflect this.
  • Facebook Integration Fixes
    Various updates were made to keep up with changing Facebook standards, including a fix for issues with Facebook share links not properly picking up listings images.
  • Infrastructure Updates for Purchase Paths
    Progress continues towards major updates for various purchase paths (signup, activate, etc), and pieces of the supporting infrastructure for these changes are starting to filter out towards production.

Updates

  • Allow appending data in controller render function
    Render function can now pass data along with object attributes to smarty.
  • Contact Broker display Profile
    Added a setting for users in states where agents are called brokers which will change the label of the "Contact Agent" button on agent profiles to reflect this.
  • Admin Menu - validation issues - Visitor Registration
    Updates to the editing facility for the Facebook and Google Social Sign-in Apps.
  • FL-NFMLS Keywords
    Keyword search lookup tables for FL-NFMLS have been rebuilt after a data provider change deprecated previous mappings.
  • CO-VAIL Keywords
    Keyword search lookup tables for CO-VAIL have been rebuilt after a data provider change deprecated previous mappings.
  • SC-HHIMLS Keywords
    Rebuilt keyword search lookups for SC-HHIMLS after a data provider change deprecated previous mappings. 
  • Listing manager ghost sample listings
    Diagnosed rare settings combination. 
  • MI-REALCOMP - government owned
    Added government owned as an option in the special conditions search filter.
  • Change to monthly billing
    Fixed account charges
  • Agent Roster: Contact Download VCF
    Added new "Download Contact Info" feature to agent profile pages. When enabled, a button will appear that will generate vCard formatted contact info for download. 
  • FLEX: smaller margins w/ CSS grid
    New flex editor options have been added to enable smaller margins between content blocks.
  • Script to clean up "Too Many Retries" entries in photo processing queue
    Script for handling listing photo processing errors.
  • Add more transaction support to the model class
    Added another way to use transactions
  • Extract next_id out of the Agent
    Changed where account id creation is.
  • Set next charge to monthly
    Changed charges from annual to monthly
  • Unhanded imagick errors when editing featured locations
    Put in protection around this error

Bug fixes

  • Facebook not recognizing listing image
    Updated image handling to try and get the Facebook sharer more responsive to our images.
  • Listing Manager: "Open" Houses tab shows up where it shouldn't
    Updated the listing manager to only show the "Open Houses" tab for manual listings, and consistently across all templates.
  • Office downgrade showing legacy widgets
    Fixed an issue where legacy accounts that downgrade from office to agent could have courtesy of data displayed on featured listings that they can no longer edit. 
  • Verified email not working as verified
    Fixed issue with agent profile sync. 
  • Error in AgentOptions - is_valid when creating a testdrive
    Fixed bug that prevented testdrive creation

Kevin Ashley

By Kevin Ashley

Kevin is a Web Developer and Marketing Expert for iHOUSEweb. He has a degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and he specializes in front end web development, web advertising, and web analytics. Kevin works closely with real estate agents all over the US, and he helps to communicate their needs to the team of Software Engineers at iHOUSEweb.