Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

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Last Post: February 4, 2011   (RSS)

Re: [MikeF] Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

By Chris - October 25, 2010

Hi MikeF,

Have you considered hiring our consulting department to build you these features? If you're interested, we could work through the requirements with you and build you a quote.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Chris

Re: [chris] Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

By MikeF - October 25, 2010

I was trying to light a fire under you guys to consider building a commercial addon or plugin similar to what Transparent Technologies has done with Open Realty. [:)]

Hi MikeF,

Have you considered hiring our consulting department to build you these features? If you're interested, we could work through the requirements with you and build you a quote.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Have GREAT day!
MikeF

Re: [MikeF] Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

By Dave - October 28, 2010

Hi Mike,

We've looked at this a few times, and it's a big big job, so it's not something that's on our radar right now. Plus it looks like there's a number of vendors that already do it.

One solution might be to find a vendor that already provides the service and see if we could get the data as a mysql database dump/export. That would be a lot faster and easier to build and maintain than an RETS/IDX import system.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [MikeF] Please consider development of RETS and IDX Import tools

By sidcam - February 4, 2011 - edited: February 4, 2011

Mike-

I'm just starting this process but I know there are generic RETS solutions that should work just fine.

The RETS software is going to just interact with the MySQL database that sits behind CMS Builder and since Open Realty, Wordpress, etc all use the same MySQL format it shouldn't be an issue.

The best place to start looking for a RETS solution would be the forum at http://rets.org/ and I've also been recommended this solution ([url "http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/forum.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.interactivetools.com%2Fforum%2Fforum.cgi%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252Furl%253Fsa%253DD%2526q%253Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fretsconnector.com%252F"]http://retsconnector.com/[/#800080][/url] ) by a techy agent I know (although I haven't started working with it yet).

Regardless of what program you use I'm told there is work involved setting the RETS up. Every MLS's database is unique and the software has to know how to map each and every field into your database. Knowing how protective my MLS is of their data I'm thinking it's probably going to be easier to just hire someone who has already worked with my MLS to set up my RETS feed.

If you choose to use Open Realty, just know that vs 3.0 is no longer open sourced and their code is encrypted (meaning it can't be customized). There's an off shoot of Open Realty's 2.x version that is open-sourced called Orodha but it's not widely used yet (so there's not a lot of plug-ins/add-ons).

Hope this helps

Sid