5.97 Release Notes
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Full 5.97 Release Notes: 5.970-5.973 Release Notes
5.973 Release
Paragon 5.973 Release Enhancements
MS Word Doc: 5.973 Release Enhancements
Updated on: 2023.
Corrected Paragon Issues
Ticket# Module Organization Summary
DEV-10841 Web API N/A Show formula in Incompatible Mapping Popup
DEV-10563 Statistics NSAR - NS and PEI Real Estate Associations Stats - Market Activity by Location doesn't
respect Board ID filter
TK-12862 View/Reports REALCOMP - Realcomp II Ltd Field Pref boxes not respecting Viewable
field settings when customizing Spreadsheets and Reports
MLS Customizations and Administration
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Admin – No Changes to Admin
Agent Level Changes Paragon Professional
The following section contains some changes that are active system wide, and some may only be available to users based on their assigned security levels.
No Changes to Paragon Professional
Collaboration Center
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Collaboration Center – No changes to Collaboration Center
Paragon Connect
The following section contains changes that are active system wide and available to users based on their assigned security levels.
Export Listings from Spreadsheets
Paragon Connect spreadsheet views now support an option to export listing data. While viewing any results in a spreadsheet view, users may use the overflow menu to export all, or just selected, listings.
Listing data will be exported to a CSV file using the columns of data included in the current spreadsheet. The CSV download may be opened in applications like Excel.
Report Listing Issue
Paragon Connect Listing Detail View now supports the option to report an issue with listing data.
Users may select this option when viewing any single listing. A new email form allows users to provide details regarding the potential listing problem. The email is sent to the system administrator.
This feature follows the same email distribution choice defined within Paragon Professional.
Corrections and Improvements
• Improvement to support the Geocode Boundary Configuration added previously in Paragon Professional is now available for Paragon Connect. This optional configuration prevents listings from being mapped outside of the defined market area.
• Improvement to the Contacts module to support adding and editing multiple email addresses per contact.
• Improvement to display Room, Unit, and Green (RUG) data on the Listing Detail View, when these RUG fields are enabled per system.
• Improvement for displaying photos on the Listing Detail View by increasing the size of the main photo and expanding the area for additional photos.
• Correction for Driving Directions map report which loads blank intermittently.
OpenMLS RESO API
Any options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration or by your System Support Manager as noted.
No changes to OpenMLS RESO API
5.972 Release
Paragon 5.971 - 5.972 Release Enhancements
Updated on: 8/25/2023.
MS Word Doc: 5.972 Release Enhancements
Corrected Paragon Issues
Ticket# Module Organization Summary
DEV-9878 Web API All Fix when Features() Method is allowed
DEV-10558 Web API All Fix when using PhoneNumber with $filter
DEV-8667 Web API Prime MLS Automap DOM and CDOM fields.
DEV-10560 Admin MAXEBRDI - MAXEBRDI MLS Hide Restrict User Code for Tour and Open House Searchable and Viewable Checkbox
TK-14160 Membership/Roster REALCOMP - Realcomp II Ltd Modifying criteria in Roster search opens additional internet tab instead of updating results
DEV-10785 Web API Various Fix some lookups not auto-generating
DEV-10563
Statistical Reports NSAR and PEI Stats - Market Activity by Location doesn't respect Board ID filter
MLS Customizations and Administration
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Admin – View multiple board-level Homepage Messages
Action Item: N/A
This enhancement fulfills a customer request to expand visibility of board-level homepage messages to those offices with multiple board affiliations. Previously, a user could only see the MLS-level homepage message and the homepage message for their office’s primary board. This enhancement allows users to see homepage messages for any board their office is affiliated with. When selected, the Board button on the homepage messages toolbar opens a series of tabs for all boards with an active homepage message. The default is still the user’s office primary board message.
Note: This does not impact customers that do not have multiple boards in their Paragon system.
Agent Level Changes Paragon Professional
The following section contains some changes that are active system wide, and some may only be available to users based on their assigned security levels.
No Changes to Paragon Professional
Collaboration Center
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
No changes to Collaboration Center
Paragon Connect
The following section contains changes that are active system wide and available to users based on their assigned security levels.
Assume Identity – Phase 2
Paragon Connect now provides users a way to assume the identity of other users based upon the setup defined in Paragon Professional.
Within the hamburger menu, users who are authorized to use the Assume Identity will see a new option in the account drop-down area.
Users will see a list of people they are authorized to assume.
When an identity is assumed, Paragon Connect will display pink highlighting around the current user profile and a pink badge over the menu. This pink badge provides a visual indicated letting users know another identity is being used no matter where you are within the application.
Product Feedback
Paragon Connect has a new option allowing users to provide feedback regarding their experience with the application. Users can provide an overall rating based upon a 5 Star value and include general comments. Feedback is sent directly to the Black Knight Product Team.
This new option is available in the User Account section of the Paragon Connect menu.
Corrections and Improvements
• New option for uploading Contact photo under the Contacts module
• Update to the Thumbnail Views to include display of Price Change Arrows when display of price changes are configured
• Correction for CloudCMA integration to pass proper listing ID value
• Correction to show the proper Yes/No Office Status value on the roster card
OpenMLS RESO API
To use the added functionality, you’ll need to already be utilizing the Room, and Unit tables in Paragon and RETS. Mapping from the Listing table is not supported at this time.
Added PropertyRooms and PropertyUnitTypes for Data Dictionary 1.7
For customers who are mapping their own data, the new resource can be mapped from the Resource Mapping tab inside Data Mapping: Data Dictionary from Admin. Simply click the Add button, choose which RETS class to link it to, and you’re off.
Figure 1 - PropertyRooms in DD Resource Mapping Tab
The fields can be mapped using click-and-drag or formulas. Please reference RESO’s PropertyRooms and PropertyUnitTypes wiki for reference.
Figure 2 - PropertyUnitTypes Field Mapping Tab
Please remember that OpenMLS API translator uses similar pieces that RETS does. If these resources are not enabled in a RETS Profile, the API user will a 401 Unauthorized HTTP error.
Figure 3 - RETS Profile Resource List
Correcting RESO Lookup Values
We identified and are running a script to correct an intermittent naming issue that affected predefined RESO lookup values. Effective as of: UAT – 8/31/2023, Pre-Release 9/5/2023, Production 9/12/2023. We recommend all vendors hit the /Lookup resource to get any updated values.
Figure 1 – Naming Issue Example; No Spaces or Special Characters
5.971 Release
Paragon 5.971 Release Enhancements
Updated on: 8/14/2023.
Download MS Word Doc : 5.971 Release Enhancements
Corrected Paragon Issues
Ticket# Module Organization Summary
DEV-9878 Web API Fix to when Features() Method is allowed
DEV-10558 Web API Fix error when using PhoneNumber with $filter
DEV-8667 WebAPI PRIMEMLS - Prime MLS (NEREN), SCWMLS Create Web API Tool AutoMapping for Multiple New Fields
DEV-10560 Admin MAXEBRDI - MAXEBRDI MLS Hide Restrict User Code for Tour and Open House Searchable and Viewable Checkbox
TK-14160 Membership/Roster REALCOMP - Realcomp II Ltd Modifying criteria in Roster search opens additional internet tab instead of updating results
MLS Customizations and Administration
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Admin – View multiple board-level Homepage Messages
Action Item: N/A
This enhancement fulfills a customer request to expand visibility of board-level homepage messages to those offices with multiple board affiliations. Previously, a user could only see the MLS-level homepage message and the homepage message for their office’s primary board. This enhancement allows users to see homepage messages for any board their office is affiliated with. When selected, the Board button on the homepage messages toolbar opens a series of tabs for all boards with an active homepage message. The default is still the user’s office primary board message.
Note: This does not impact customers that do not have multiple boards in their Paragon system.
Agent Level Changes Paragon Professional
The following section contains some changes that are active system wide, and some may only be available to users based on their assigned security levels.
No Changes In Paragon Professional
Collaboration Center
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Collaboration Center – No changes to Collaboration Center
Paragon Connect
The following section contains changes that are active system wide and available to users based on their assigned security levels.
Assume Identity – Phase 2
Paragon Connect now provides users a way to assume the identity of other users based upon the setup defined in Paragon Professional.
Within the hamburger menu, users who are authorized to use the Assume Identity will see a new option in the account drop-down area.
Users will see a list of people they are authorized to assume.
When an identity is assumed, Paragon Connect will display pink highlighting around the current user profile and a pink badge over the menu . This pink badge provides a visual indicated letting users know another identity is being used no matter where you are within the application.
Corrections and Improvements
• Improvements to Contacts including option for uploading Contact photo, displaying, and editing additional data
• Correction for CloudCMA integration to pass proper listing ID value
• Correction to show the proper Yes/No Office Status value on the roster card
Paragon Affiliate Connect
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Corrected Paragon Affiliate Connect Issues
Ticket # Module Summary
No Changes to Affiliate Connect
OpenMLS RESO API
Any options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration or by your System Support Manager as noted.
No feature changes this release.
5.970 Release
Paragon 5.970 Release Enhancements
MS Word Download: 5.970 Release
Updated on: 2023.
Corrected Paragon Issues
Ticket# Module Organization Summary
TK-13531
Fields Realcomp Realcomp - RUG Fields not respecting Viewable setting
DEV-10409 OpenMLS Added odata.nextLink Support in POST Queries
MLS Customizations and Administration
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Admin – No Admin items
Agent Level Changes Paragon Professional
The following section contains some changes that are active system wide, and some may only be available to users based on their assigned security levels.
No Changes Paragon Professional
Collaboration Center
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Collaboration Center – No changes to Collaboration Center
Paragon Connect
The following section contains changes that are active system wide and available to users based on their assigned security levels.
Bulk Photo Labels
Photo labels and descriptions are a great way to provide details for marketing listings. The photo maintenance section of Paragon Connect was just upgraded to offer a convenient option for setting or modifying labels and descriptions for all the photos for a listing in a single view.
After selecting to edit listing photos, the overflow menu includes a new option called “Bulk Labels”. From this Bulk Labels page users will see any label and description options enabled for their system and will be able to easily set values for one or all photos at one time.
Room/Unit/Green fields in LIM
The listing maintenance feature in Paragon Connect now supports adding and editing Room, Unit, and Green, aka RUG, fields. If the RUG options are enabled for your system, these will appear as new sections on your listing maintenance form.
Data for rooms, units, and green info display as cards in their own designated RUG section. Users may add new entries or modify existing entries to complete their listings.
Corrections and Improvements
• Correction for searching Members by Full Name
• Corrections for searching Offices by City and State/Province
• Correction for driving directions using the incorrect destination location
• Update to show map pin labels as “listings” instead of “units” when multiple listings appear at the same location
• Update to include new filter options for viewing My Saved Searches
Paragon Affiliate Connect
All options in this section are either configurable via MLS Administration controls or by your System Support Manager as noted.
Corrected Paragon Affiliate Connect Issues
Ticket # Module Summary
No Changes to Affiliate Connect
OpenMLS Web API
With this major release, we’ve focuses on cleaning up metadata. If options are configurable by either MLS Administration or your System Support Manager, they are noted.
Removing Paragon Short Values in Lookups
When direct field mapping is used in OpenMLS and no enumeration mapping is created, OpenMLS will automatically generate the lookups. To ensure all lookups were unique, we included the short value in parentheses.
Figure 1 - Paragon Short Value in Parentheses
The LookupValue needs to be a human-friendly display name. Even though Short Value in parentheses is friendly and understandable, most vendors won’t have need of this value. To make data easily readable, we will no longer display the Short Value unless there are lookups that share the same Long Description. This only affects systems where Lookups are generated automatically. eg: /Paragon endpoints If your Feature and Lookup enumerations are manually mapped, this change will not affect you.
Figure 2 - Paragon Short Values in Prentheses only for Duplicate Descriptions
Enforcing Explicit Enumeration Mapping in Metadata
RESO Data Dictionary (DD) 2.0 will focus on compliance. Prior to this release, if Paragon Feature or Lookup enumerations were partially mapped, the unmapped values were being sent out as well. This will no longer happen.
In the example below, if the agent chose Storage and Tennis on this Feature. Tennis will not be sent out because it is not mapped.
Figure 1 - Paragon Value Mapping Example
Create a Sum from Multiple Feature Values
It’s not uncommon to group count options in a Feature Category. eg: Garage Spaces This gives users flexibility, but does not match DD standards. We’ve added a new summation method to the Formula Editor ( ). The features_sum() sum the selected Feature values which are mapped to this field. The External Value must be a number. This leverages the current feature() formula. This means you can include comma delimited features in the parenthesis.
Before After
Figure 1 - Before and After Sumation Functionality
Figure 2 - Various Features Mapped to a Number Field
System Generated Lookups vs Manual Mapped Enumerations
This release allows for data mappers to ability to truly “map it and forget it”. With the changes above, when a Feature or Lookup is mapped to a List Type field where RESO has not defined enumerations, the system now cleanly generates Lookups for you. There is no need to define those using the Value Mapping ( ) tool. This eliminates the need to manually map new enumerations when added to your system.
To take full advantage of this functionality, your system must have the RETS_DYNAMIC_METADATA_OPTION set to fully dynamic. This can be completed by your SSM. When a new enumeration is added to an existing lookup or feature, a Lookup refresh can be run in the background without disruption to RETS or RESO API. Once completed, your vendors can repull metadata from either system to see the new value.
Figure 1 - Blue Flag Indicates No Enumeration Mapping
Figure 2 - Green Flag Indicates Enumeration Mapping
Figure 3 - New City is Now Skipped Because Other Cities are Mapped
For customers wishing to make scripted removal of enumeration mappings on fields, please contact your SSM. This would most likely be location fields, like City. We can assist with. Please Remember: Any mapping changes will affect your API Metadata. If you are an OpenMLS customer, please instruct your Web API vendors to repull metadata and lookups once this process is complete.
RETS
The items in this section are configurable per MLS by your System Support Manager.
Added Manual Geocode Field to Listing Table
To allow flexibility in geocoding, we’ve added a new flag to the Property Resources in RETS. This is a flag called “Is Manual Geocode”. This flag was not enabled by default for this release. To enable, please contact your SSM. This new field will, of course, require a RETS Refresh.
Figure 1 - LMD_MPIsManualGeocode
Like all other fields, this field can be managed in the RETS Profiles editor within Paragon Pro’s Admin section. The System Name for the field is LMD_MPIsManualGeocode. It will send out a value of ‘1’ when the listing in question is manually geocoded.
