Linda's Line - Jun '08

PARDON OUR DUST…COMING SOON TO INNOVIA!

It's that time once again! Your MLS Committee has put together a great list of improvements to InnoVia. You may have already noticed that some of them have already occurred. More are on the way!
The City drop down list on the property type search screens has been moved to the top of the page. All the cities and counties in Florida have been added. They are in alphabetical order. Please, if you find duplicates in the list, let me know right away! On the County list, Volusia and Flagler are at the top then the rest are in alphabetical order like the cities. Don't forget that typing the first letter of the city or county name will take you directly to that part of the alphabet!
A link to the Volusia County School Board website has also been added to all customer displays. Some of the fields to the right of the Main photo display have been removed so that other fields may be added. We've added Maintenance Fee to the 7 photo display and replaced the 5 photo display with a 12 photo display.
We've added subdivision and condo names to the e-update and added the standard disclosure statement to all displays, all pages, all property types. The CID Committee has requested changes to the Commercial property type to clarify searching of commercial properties.
We will be adding map areas to the list for Flagler County. We have enlarged the agent remarks field to the maximum. We have also added a field to display the listing address on the internet. It is a yes/no field just like the Internet field. Both are mandatory fields now and defaulted to yes, so please make sure your listings have the correct info on them.
We are adding an "other room" with a drop-down list of choices. This is not a mandatory field. We have added a source field for the Living and Total square footages. If you change the footages, you must tell the source for that information as it is now mandatory to do so.
We will be adding the capability to extend a listing date while in pending or contingent status. This means you don't have to worry about having it expire and not catching it if a contract falls through.
We will also be changing the default sort on all displays, all property types to be sorted by price from low to high.
Coded Features: We have many changes happening to coded features, from adding categories, splitting categories, adding choices to categories, etc. We have duplicated the Accept and Reset buttons at the top of the coded feature page.
These are your changes in a nutshell! If I have left any out, please forgive me.
If you have questions about the changes please call Ian Anderson, Nancy Cortez, John Leitschuh or Alice Ponte. They are the MLS Task Force sub-committee of the MLS Committee that did all of the research and put together these changes for you! We owe the Task Force a great big THANKS for all their hard work in reviewing our current system and making recommendations to improve it for the benefit of all MLS subscribers.