Paragon version 5.64 is coming on May 2nd and introduces a number of improvements and changes to the system. Here’s what you can expect with the update:
- Collab Center: Preference Wizard web page setup
Enhancement: Previously, users with iPads could not configure their Collaboration Center site as the Preferences Wizard is turned off when using Paragon on an iPad. To correct this, the Collab Center Site Information content has been added to the Collab Center section of User Preferences within Paragon. This allows end users to configure their Collaboration Center site using any device.
- Collab Center: Access Listing Details from the Listing Update Notification
Enhancement: A direct link has been added that will take the user to the Collaboration Center’s Listing Detail view from the listing summary of properties included in the client Listing Update email notifications. Closing the Listing Detail view will return the user to the Collaboration Center home page.
- Property History Reports shows reference data
Enhancement: When users add the listing agent and office fields to the Property History they do not have an efficient way to review additional information about the agent or office without changing to another report view. For consistency amongst report views, the listing agent and office fields in the Property History report have been hyperlinked. When a user clicks the hyperlinked listing agent or office names, the standard agent or office detail screen will display.
- Reorder results on Google Map Report
Enhancement: Now available by popular demand, you can reorder listings on the Google Map Report view. Users can drag and drop the results in any order that they would like on the report. This will cause the report to refresh so that the numbering associated with the listing in the results and on the map will match. This enhancement alleviates the need to toggle between the Google Map report and the spreadsheet view to reorder the results because previously reordering could only be done in spreadsheet result views.
- Improvements to Email Signature for Notifications
Enhancement: Currently, when a user deletes an email signature linked to one or more existing email notification there is no option to replace the deleted signature with another one. Users are forced to manually edit each affected notification to add a replacement email signature. The email signature processes have been modified to provide users with an opportunity to modify email notifications with a new signature if they choose to. This change eliminates the need to manually modify email notifications. The user may also choose to permanently remove email signatures from the affected notifications.
- Precursor performance changes for Map Search
Enhancement: In preparation for automatically displaying results when accessing the map search (i.e., Map Boundary) in the Paragon release following this update, a few performance improvements have been made, thus making results return faster:
- Results reflect lowest to highest system price, previously it displayed highest to lowest price.
- Listing data doesn’t load until the user clicks on a cluster or listing price marker.
- The number of columns returned in the results has been limited to a small few key fields.
Another improvement is that listing map results will now return 1,500 listings instead of 500.
The performance improvements listed above return results faster.
- Listing Activity Data retained for 120 days
Enhancement: The Listing Activity displayed on the Listing Activity Report in Paragon Listing Maintenance has been refactored to retain this pertinent information for the previous 120 Days. This change promotes data accuracy and optimises system performance.
- Collab Center: Map Layers added
Enhancement: The Collaboration Center and CollabLink applications have been enhanced to include Map Layers.
- Minimum photo size for listings
Enhancement: To ensure better quality photos are added to listings, a minimum photo requirement has been implemented to prevent uploading photos that are too small. If a photo is too small, the user will receive an error while attempting to upload it.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns related to Paragon or other Board tools, contact the FVREB Helpdesk at 604-930-7626 or helpdesk@fvreb.bc.ca.