I am pleased to announce that we have launched a new Open-Realty® Extras directory on this site. The new OR Extras section replaces our old separate add-ons web site and it is better integrated with the rest of the main OR web site.. The new Extras directory allows add-on and template developers to list their products making it easy to find new ways to expand the features and change the look of your OR-based web site. We will also be adding some new official Transparent Tech add-ons and templates to the Extras directory over the next couple of months. For add-on developers we have also updated the Framework add-on specifically (which is available for download via the new OR Extras directory), which includes examples of the latest add-on features, API, and template system

We have released an update to our TransparentRETS add-on for Open-Reatly® v3.1.10+. This new release adds the ability to link to photos from a RETS server instead of downloading them to your hosting account. This can greatly speed-up a RETS import, while saving clients a lot of storage and bandwidth. The RETS server must support obtaining photo links using the "location=1" flag, this feature is optional in the RETS specification and not all RETS server vendors presently support doing this. You will need to check with the MLS or their server vendor to see if their RETS server supports this option. If you have any questions regarding a specific RETS server's ability to support this feature our sales team can assist you in determining comparability assuming you have your login credentials to the RETS server in question.

TransparentRETS v2.1.1

New Features

• Added support for the optional "location=1" RETS parameter. This provides the ability to store links to photos stored on the RETS server instead of downloading and storing raw photos.

Bug Fixes

• Ensure any empty fields are always created with an empty value.
• Prevent double escaping any imported photo descriptions.

Note: If you are running an OR version prior to v3.1.10 you will need to upgrade OR first before upgrading TransparentRETS.

Open-Realty® v3.1.10 has been released. This release has added a number of enhancements mostly targeted at add-on developers, to allow add-ons to interact with OR in more ways.

One of the really great things about Open-Realty is how flexibile the design of your site can be. In the v3.1.9 release of Open-Realty we added a new block tag {listings_custom_search_result_block}. You can use this new tag to make some very cool widgets for your site. Today I am going to show you how to use this new tag to build a vertically scrolling featured listing widget. This does not require the use of an add-on, it is simply some simple JS, HTML, and CSS you are going to add to your template..

Open-Realty v3.1.9 has been released.

Detailed Changelog

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed broken jQuery Tools calls for tabs that used the history plugin.
• PHP Safe Mode Enabled Warning Message was not being displayed during installation.
• Securimage - improved visibility of text colors in these captchas. .
• Changed hard-coded in-line styles for the captcha to CSS classes in the default stylesheet. Refined the Securimage captcha layout to remove items such as hard-coded tags that prevent full customization.
• Make Blog RSS Post and Comments feed sort by date, as not all RSS readers will sort by the pubDate correctly.
• Fixed jQuery validation of checkbox fields that are required.
• Fix behavior of {link_add_favorites_url}tag on search results page.
• Fix php error when deleting pdf files via ckeditor filemanager.

New Features:

• Updated jQuery Tools library to v1.2.6
• Updated CKEditor to v3.6.2
• Add {!listing_field_FIELDNAME_block}which allows the display data when a field is not filled-in or or does not exist for a particular listing.
• New Tag: {listings_custom_search_result_block}allows you to perform a search and return listing results, to main.html and any Blog or Page Editor page.