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.

Open-Realty v3.1.8 has been released. This is strictly a bug-fix release to address issues found in OR v3.1.7 introduced by the recent update of jQuery which prevented IE browser users from using certain functions in the administration area.

Detailed Changelog

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed broken jQuery ajax call on blog publisher page, which was breaking tabs and add post functionality.
• Fixed jQuery issue in IE which prevented use of certain administration functions in Site Config.
• Remove compatibility mode from OR_Small admin template that was forcing IE8 standards mode.

Open-Realty v3.1.7 has been released. This release addresses recently reported bugs, updates to several jQuery libs, and provides a few enhancements.

Detailed Changelog

Bug Fixes:

• Patched the Blog Keywords for metadata
• Fixed bug in listing status detection in listing__read command that affected sites using listing expiration.
• Member signups initited from the contact Agent form, now correctly trigger email verification if enabled in Site Config.
• Skip referrer check on send email when accessed via verify email address link. [OR-3]
• Fix link in new user notifications that are sent to the Admin [OR-1]
• Fix bug in listing__update API that allowed the use of duplicate seotitles.
• Fix Page URL Parsing when the SEO link is only set to seo_title.
• Twitter Disconnect link now works properly [OR-6]
• Fix URL parsing when using the 'select_users_template' GET variable. [OR-8]
• Fix max length validation for textarea fields. [OR-7]
• Fix the ability to save 'no' values for checkbox fields.
• Fix the ability for Agents to change their password.
• Fix "permission denied" message if an Agent attempted to edit a different user account.
• Fix RSS Item Title in Blog Post RSS feed. [OR-9]
• Improve SEO parsing for listing pages when using the {listing_id} tag.
• Fix link to tooltip image for Edit User page.
• Added missing vtour image to the html5 demonstration template.
• Fix modified date for listing pages in the sitemap.

Language Changes:

• Fixed link at admin_challenge_phrase lang variable (original.inc.php)
• Updating pt-br language file (3_0_0.inc.php)
• Added "Your feedback has been sent to:" (your_feedback_has_been_sent) message LANG variable  [OR-4]

Enhancements:

• Update to wordpress-inject feature to support wordpress export files v1.1 as well as v1.0
• Enabled the 'selected_language_template' variable to be passed via a GET or a POST variable.
• Added support for 'listingview_main.html' templte file which can be optionally loaded for listing detail pages that need to bypass (replace) the content normally displayed via 'main.html'.
• Added {is_mobile} and {!is_mobile} permission tags.  *Note these tags act independently of the mobile template, if  a user is using a mobile device, regardless of if they are viewing the regular or mobile template, the tags will correctly detect if the visitor is using a mobile device and allow/deny content accordingly. [OR-12]

Javascript Changes:

• jQuery to v1.6.1
• jQueryUI to v1.8.13
• jQuery datatables to v1.8.0
• jQuery fullcalendar to v1.5.1
• jQuery colorbox to v1.3.17.2
• jQuery validate to v1.8.1
• jQuery Tools to v1.2.5
• jQuery weekcalendar to v2.0 https://github.com/themouette/jquery-week-calendar
• ckEditor to v3.6.1

Transparent Techologies, is happy to announce we have launced a new community support portal to allow customers to communicate, ask questions, and share ideas about all of our products and services. This new community portal uses the same login information as our Helpdesk and Billing system uses, which means you have a single login to both locations. For customers already using our<a data-cke-saved-href="http://transparent-tech.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=578022c1ad4e376526be978b9&id=6e5da22b01&e=c7558851c1" href="http://transparent-tech.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=578022c1ad4e376526be978b9&id=6e5da22b01&e=c7558851c1" "="" target="_blank"> Open-Realty Community Forums, this new community area will be replacing the old forums. For the time being we are going to leave the forums active, after 30 days we will be marking the forums as read only, so the great content that is already there will remain avaliable.

You can access the new community support portal at http://community.transparent-tech.com

Open-Realty v3.1.6 has been released. This release contains an important security patch, as well as some bug fixes and minor enhancements. We highly recommend all users upgrade to this latest release.

Detailed Changelog

Security Fix:

• Fix potential XSS vulnerabilites, and a possible admin-side SQL injection vulnerability.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix the maintenance mode page display.
• Fixed a notice error caused by uninitialized variable in listing api
• Fixed a permission check on listing__read API command that could potentially be used to allow non Agents to read expired listings.
• Fixed the after_user_login developer's hook, which was being triggered incorrectly.

Enhancements:

• Only users with Admin privileges can delete other users with Admin privileges.
• Set PHP Session Garbage collection to enforce 100% cleanup for development installs when using the 'devignoreinstall' option.

One year ago we released Open-Realty® v3.0,  which included new features like our Blog Manager, customizable SEO URL generation, the ability to post listings to Twitter, and a lot of other desirable features and improvements. The v3.0 release also marked the retirement of our open source project version of Open-Realty® and for the first time, professional commercial support was offered as a part of our OR v3 Professional Edition License. There was much speculation from the open source community and our usual detractors about OR moving from what was essentially a "free beer" business model to a commercial business model, and some naysayers even went so far as to insist that OR could never survive if offered as a commercially supported application.