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kingtarzan
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Dec 19, 2002, 1:31 PM
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Is there a way to make a listing non-live. I am aware that you can disable a user which prevents them from logging in however it does not prevent their listings from being viewed. Is there a way other than erasing a listing to prevent it from being viewed?
This would be a good future feature if there is not a way to accomplish this. The reason I want to do this is because I run a FSBO site. The odd time I have a homeowner who couldn't sell their home list with a realtor. The realtor often requires the listing to be removed from all fsbo sites. The problem is that if I remove the listing and let's say it's listing number is #0034 but I currently have 135 listings on my site, the next new listing added will be given the listing number of the erased listing (#0034) rather than #0136. This becomes an issue when you have signs distributed throughout the country with listing numbers on them.
Thanks in advace for the help
Matt
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Benjamin
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Dec 19, 2002, 3:04 PM
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Re: [kingtarzan] Live or Non-Live Option
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Hi Matt,
Yes, this feature has been requested a lot! As is, there's no control allowing the Admin to have control over whether or not a listing is live or not - at least, not an option which overrides the listing's status, so that it will never be shown.
I understand your need for this, and we've added it to our feature request list.
In your situation, I'm having trouble thinking of a workaround. First, I thought that perhaps you could leave the listings in the database, but change the contents of each saying "GONE!" (or something perhaps a little more elegant). But this would inevitably fill up your database and slow down your site; so you'd have to manually delete old 'Gone' listings a month or two after they've been 'deleted'. Secondly, (and this is a better solution) perhaps you'd be willing to change the way you're referring to the listings? I realise this is always a pain, considering you've already established a way to refer to them.
But if you'd be willing to consider this, you could instead create a new field called "Listing Number", which you'd manually enter for each listing. Then, configure your search engine to include a new field: "search by Listing Number". This would provide people a way to locate a specific listing; if you were to remove it, it would simply return "no search results found".
Would something along these lines be acceptable?
Ben
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kingtarzan
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Dec 19, 2002, 7:49 PM
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Ben,
In my case the solutions you mentioned do not really help. I guess I'll have to wait for the next release. I do have the option to search by listing number which is a field I created. The problem is that I also have the option on my front page to search for all listings within a certain area and the listings would still show up threw this search. Thanks anyway.
Matt
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