FWRE Trestle Connector

Version 2.1.5: 5 fixes.

Bugfix: Updating an add-on before the component no longer breaks your site. Agents, Custom Fields and Floor Plans showed an error in the admin when they were updated ahead of FW Real Estate itself. A few other add-ons and the search module did the same on some pages. Each one now works with the component you have and does what it did before, and you'll get the new behaviour once you update the component too.

Bugfix: Trestle no longer copies a site's listings after an update from version 6. The Trestle and Spark API importers now find an existing listing by the field you map to the MLS number (ListingId unless you changed it), which is what a site updated from version 6 already holds, so the first run updates those listings instead of adding a second copy of each. Visitors also see the public MLS number rather than the feed's internal key.

Bugfix: Feeds on sites upgraded from version 6 use their old default country, MLS Grid record filter, Spark featured rule and last import date again. A listing that arrives without a country is filed under the country set for its feed, MLS Grid imports only the records its record filter matches, Spark marks a listing as featured by its featured field and value, and the import panel shows when the feed last ran in version 6. The MLS Grid and Spark settings now offer the country, and Spark the featured field and value.

Bugfix: Trestle imports into the categories you choose, one per property type. The Trestle importer's settings now have a table where each property type the feed serves goes to its own category or is left out, and the importer reads exactly that, so a configured feed imports instead of stopping silently. A site updated from version 6 keeps importing every type into the one category it had, and the table opens with that category already chosen.

Bugfix: Trestle imports carry on when a listing's photos can't be reached. That listing comes in without them and the rest of the feed still updates.

No change to how this add-on behaves. Released together with FW Real Estate 7.1.4 so that the update server holds the current build.

The default field mapping now uses standard RESO field names.

A new mapping starts from fields a RESO feed can send, among them stories, lot size in square feet, the elementary school district, pets allowed, lease term, and gross income, operating expense and cap rate for investment listings.

A mapping you have already saved is not changed. Your field choices stay exactly as you set them.

No change to how this add-on behaves. Nothing a site can observe is different: the English catalogue was rewritten into the form the WordPress directory extracts translations from, and comments inside the code were shortened. The fifteen languages this add-on ships are unchanged.

Published so that what the update server holds matches the product exactly.

The categories this feed imports into now survive an upgrade from version 6. Everything in the property catalogue was renumbered by the upgrade, and this add-on's category settings still held the old numbers — which in the new catalogue belong to entirely different entries. The importer did not report anything wrong: it ran, and filed every property under nothing at all, so listings arrived and appeared in no category.

The settings are now re-pointed when the add-on is installed. Where a category no longer exists, that part of the feed is switched off rather than guessed at, so the importer tells you it needs configuring instead of importing into limbo.

Requires FW Real Estate 7.0.4 or newer. Update the component first: on an older one this add-on installs and the re-pointing simply does not happen, with nothing to show for it.

Photographs are imported again. A listing brought in by this feed arrives with its images, as it did before the 7.0 rebuild. Photographs are fetched only for a property that has none, or when the run is set to update existing records, so a routine import does not re-download what you already have — and a photograph that fails to arrive no longer counts as a failed listing.

• Your category and status mapping survives an upgrade. The add-on now records which of its settings hold a lookup value, so an upgrade no longer leaves incoming listings filed under a stale category.

Requires FW Real Estate 7.0.2 or newer. Update the component or plugin first; this add-on will not install onto an older one.

The Trestle (CoreLogic RESO) feed importer.

FW Real Estate 7.0 rebuilds the product on a new cross-platform engine. What this add-on does for you is unchanged — the features you use in 6.x are the features you get here. What is new is where it runs and how it reaches you:

• It runs on WordPress as well as Joomla, from the same code, so both editions stay in step.
• It has a version of its own. On Joomla that means it is delivered and updated from the store on that version, instead of arriving whenever the component happens to ship a release that bundles it. On WordPress it arrives inside the plugin if it is one of the free add-ons, or in the subscription pack it belongs to.

See the component release notes for the 7.0 story and for how to bring your data across.