Errata 10: Meaning of certain search types

ERRATA: Meaning of certain search types
From: Michael DelGaudio
Date: Friday, June 7, 2002 1:24:08 PM

ERRATA: Meaning of certain search types
Reporter: michael.delgaudio@mris.net
RETS Version: 1.0.0
RETS Document: Real Estate Transaction Standard 1.0

Location(s): Section 7

Description:
The Standard is intentionally vague on many items. However, since the SEARCH transaction is quite essential to RETS, it seems critical to understand what the Searches are intended to return.

Here are Examples:
1. Does the "Tour" Search return a series of properties that constitute an "Open House Tour", or does it represent the "Virtual tours" available for a property? What structure should the Search return?

2. Does the "Prospect" search represent "hot-sheet" updates for prospects, and therefore does it imply that there is some way to store saved criteria for that prospect. Or, does Prospect mean some type of contact management where the agent can use the server as an address book? This raises the same question how is this data added to the server, and what is the appropriate return structure.

3. Does "History" mean the changes that have occurred to the listing over it's course, or the history of the property over the course of all it's previous listings also? I believe it is the former, and not the latter, however it is unclear what the return XML structure should be to represent this.

4. How would one represent an open house using STANDARD-XML, as there are no XML tags that describe open houses in the standard.

Proposed Solution:
None proposed, awaiting feedback from group.

Mike DelGaudio, Internet Solutions Manager
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