If you are a San Francisco Realtor an use the public home search tool for your websites, there is a little bug with Firefox browsers. Works fine in IE.

The bug relates to the framed IDX solution they provide. The problem…it does not work in Frames.
If you view in a normal page, works fine. Put it in a frame, and the map returns an error.

Rapattoni released a new version recently, and It is quite nice…but there are some major problems.

1. The main admin section does not work with Firefox Browsers. You can only use it with Internet Explorer. I guess this is not a very big deal. Top Producer is the same way, but I like Firefox, so it’s a big deal to me.
2. It’s slow.
3. this is another personal peev, but why don’t you let the Realtors get a raw data feed???? So they build there own searches. The Realtors are paying for this service, and we are stuck with either buying a 3rd party product for IDX, or we have to use the framed solution from SFARMLS, which is not very good. I know there is a lot to this issue, but personally, Just give Realtors a raw data feed so they can plug it into Google Maps, and make there own search… Only one feed per Broker Office is currently allowed and if a vendor is on record to access the raw feed, you have to try to get access from them…good luck with that!

   The Broker should access this feed, and the broker feeds it to vendors, or a broker should be able to choose how gets the raw data directly from SFARMLS. Everything a realtor does is based around MLS listing. If a broker accessed this feed, all marketing material, print, ads, emails, could be automatically created from this raw data.

 Off my soapbox…Let’s fix this bug

To find your public home search tool, log into www.sfarmls.com, don’t forget to use IE

Go to admin->IDX Search Setup. This is where you can add or remove search fields.

I would suggest removing the mapping until this bug is fixed. Make sure “Map” is in the left column, not the right.

To preview the link go to Admin->Public Access Links. The 3rd link down is your IDX Solution.

Please let me know if you need help with this, or have no idea what I’m talking about. I will be glad to help.

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