EZ Realty 6.0x: © 2010 K.J. Strickland

EZ Realty 6.
0x
© 2010 K.J. Strickland

EZ Realty User's Guide
An essential "must read" for every EZ Realty user
by K.J. Strickland
EZ Realty 6.0x
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Table of Contents
Foreword 7
Part I Introduction 9
1 Welcome
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to EZ Realty 9
2 EZ Realty
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features 9
3 System
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requirements 12
4 Getting
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help 12
Part II Installations and Upgrades 14

1 Joomla
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1.5x system 14
New EZ Realty..........................................................................................................................................................
Installation on Joomla 1.5x 14
EZ Realty upgrades
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on Joomla 1.5x 15
New module installations
..........................................................................................................................................................
on Joomla 1.5x 17
Module upgrades
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on Joomla 1.5x 17
Part III Overview and use of EZ Realty 20

1 The EZ
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Realty Admin cPanel 20
System Management
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Areas 21
Property Manager
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Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................
property manager screen 21
Overview of the add/edit.........................................................................................................................................
property listing form 24
Add/edit a property .........................................................................................................................................
listing 30
Removing a property .........................................................................................................................................
listing 31
Publishing/unpublishing .........................................................................................................................................
a property listing 32
Categories......................................................................................................................................................... 32
Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................
category manager screen 33
Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................
add/edit category screen 34
Add/edit category......................................................................................................................................... 36
Removing a category ......................................................................................................................................... 37
Re-ordering the categories
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categories 38
Localities ......................................................................................................................................................... 38
Overview of the locality.........................................................................................................................................
manager screen 39
locality screen 41
Add/edit locality ......................................................................................................................................... 41
Removing a locality ......................................................................................................................................... 42
Re-ordering the localities
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localities 43
States ......................................................................................................................................................... 44
Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................
states manager screen 44
state screen 46
Add/edit state ......................................................................................................................................... 47
Removing a state......................................................................................................................................... 47
Re-ordering the states ......................................................................................................................................... 48
states 48
Countries ......................................................................................................................................................... 49
Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................
country manager screen 49

Contents 5
Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................

add/edit country screen 51
Add/edit country ......................................................................................................................................... 51
Removing a country ......................................................................................................................................... 52
Re-ordering the countries......................................................................................................................................... 52
countries 53
Price increments
......................................................................................................................................................... 53
Overview of the price .........................................................................................................................................
increment manager screen 54
Overview of the add/edit .........................................................................................................................................
price increment screen 56
Add/edit price list.........................................................................................................................................
increment 57
Removing a price.........................................................................................................................................
list increment 58
Re-ordering price.........................................................................................................................................
list increments 58
price increments 59
Profile manager
......................................................................................................................................................... 59
Overview of the profile .........................................................................................................................................
manager screen 60
profile screen - address tab 62
profile screen - contact tab 65
profile screen - promotional tab 67
profile screen - privileges tab 68
Add/edit profile ......................................................................................................................................... 69
Removing a profile ......................................................................................................................................... 70
profiles 70
VIP Buyers.........................................................................................................................................................
register 71
Overview of the VIP .........................................................................................................................................
buyers register screen 71
Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................
add/edit buyers register screen 74
Add/edit VIP Buyer ......................................................................................................................................... 77
Removing a VIP Buyer ......................................................................................................................................... 78
VIP Buyer 78
Static content
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manager 79
Overview of the static .........................................................................................................................................
content manager screen 79
Overview of the edit .........................................................................................................................................
static content screen 80
Editing the static content
......................................................................................................................................... 81
Masking static content .........................................................................................................................................
output 81
Configuration.........................................................................................................................................................
settings 81
Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................
configuration settings 82
Maintenance ..........................................................................................................................................................
Tools 103
Sync members,
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profiles and properties 103
Clean listings
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Prune shortlist
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Manage orphan
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uploads 104
Send Listing
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Expired Email Alert 105
Send VIP.........................................................................................................................................................
Buyer Notifications 105
Send Listings
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Report to Sellers 105
Optimize tables
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Upgrade database
......................................................................................................................................................... 105
Tabbed Extras .......................................................................................................................................................... 105
The Checks .........................................................................................................................................................
tab 106
Imports ......................................................................................................................................................... 106
2 The ...................................................................................................................................
Frontend public areas 106
Home page .......................................................................................................................................................... 106
Listings pages
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Find an Agent.......................................................................................................................................................... 109
View Profile ..........................................................................................................................................................
page 110
Virtual agency
.......................................................................................................................................................... 110
VIP Buyers Register
.......................................................................................................................................................... 111
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3 The ...................................................................................................................................
EZ Realty Frontend user area 113
The EZ Panel.......................................................................................................................................................... 114
Manage profile..........................................................................................................................................................
settings 116
Manage shortlist
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area 117
Add/edit listing
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form 117
Index 0

Foreword 7

Part
I
Introduction 9
1 Introduction
1.1 Welcome to EZ Realty

EZ Realty is a simple - yet comprehensive property listing component and multi-module
combo for Joomla! content management systems. Although it's simple to use - it comes
with a huge list of features to make your listings look great - and it's all very configurable
via the admin backend.
Now into its 5th year of development, EZ Realty has undergone significant change and
improvement since its initial release. It just continues to grow and get better - and this is
due to the valuable feedback provided by customers. I'd like to say thank you - because
without your ideas and inspiration - EZ Realty would be a shadow of what it is. Your
ideas for new features keep my "todo" list well stocked with development work, so I'm
always busy learning new code and writing upgrades for new releases.
This help manual has been written to give you an overview of EZ Realty, how to install
and upgrade it, what the various settings and data management areas are, and how to
use it all on your site.
1.2 EZ Realty features
Quick Install
It takes a minute to install EZ Realty on your web server - and another couple to install
the multitude of modules available. Yes, it doesn't take long to get the packages installed
onto your Joomla site.
Multiple Business Models
EZ Realty is designed to meet the needs of multiple business models - from the single
agent real estate business listing properties for sale, multi-agent businesses, and
community sales portals offering FSBO listing services. Simply configure it to meet the
needs of your business model.
Profiling System
EZ Realty allows your sellers to promote their business, and share their contact details.
Supports multiple contact methods, including direct contact, snail mail, email, telephone,
SMS via Clickatell, and 3 online messaging systems. New in version 5.2.0 are profile
privileges - enabling your members to manage more aspects of their listings such as
publish/unpublish, skip the paid listings process, reset the expiry date and more. Profiling

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privileges are an excellent way to keep employees out of the backend - yet allow them
certain privileges normally only accessible via the admin area.
Enabled for Payment plugins
Turn your EZ Realty-powered site into a money-maker with the paid listings functionality.
Two sales levels allow you to charge for upgrades from free listings to "premium" and
"featured" listings - or run in paid listings only mode. Comes with a PayPal payment
plugin, and other payment processor plugins can be obtained from Rob Joyce at http://
www.osdcs.com
Expiry Management System
Limit your listings based on time - eg. 30 day listings. Easy to use "clean listings" function
to remove expired listings, and email notification for expired listings.
SEO
Our SEO Partner Denis Dulici also has a range of products to enhance your SEO goals -
with plugins for JoomSEF, sh404sef and Xmap.
Easy Layouts
Front-end templating system makes changing the layout of data on listing pages and the
full details page. Four different layouts are currently available for the listings pages, and 8
different layouts are available for the full details page - including tabbed pages, javascript
sliders, wide layouts, narrow page layouts. In addition to this - the image layouts/
systems are interchangeable with the full details page templates - enabling you to
achieve a layout and image system that suits your site needs and design dimensions.
Three different layouts are available for the EZ Realty opening page - a combo layout
combining search form and top localities, the standard category names layout or the main
search filter page layout. These are all easily configured via the EZ Realty admin
configuration area - and you can choose which one best suits your site needs and
preferences.
Multiple currency support
Version 5.2.0 introduced true multi-currency support. Run your site listings with a default
currency for all listings set via the EZ Realty configuration area - or allow your members
to list their properties in the currency of their choice.
Professional Image Presentation
In an industry where looks is everything, EZ Realty gives you a top-quality image display
system. Templates come with Javascript rollover images, and some have the slimbox/
lightbox image systems available. List up to 24 images with image descriptions - they're
uploaded, thumbnailed and resized during the save process. Version 5.2.0 introduced

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image watermarking - to give your sold and featured listings a distinctive look.
VIP Buyer's Register
Don't miss sales opportunities just because you don't have a listing people want. The VIP
Buyer's Register allows you to collect details of purchaser requirements, and display those
on the front-end as a "wanted properties" listing page. Communicate with other members
of the sales team on the status of a lead via the notes area, and send emails of listings
matching requirements via the VIP email notifications. Emails sent to people on the VIP
Buyer's Register contain a summary of key property information, an image and the seller
details - as well as a link to the property listing and an unsubscribe link. The email
notification process can be configured to be automatic when new properties are saved -
or manually triggered via the EZ Realty admin cPanel.
Mapping Support
Comes with Google mapping support built-in.
RSS 2.0 Feeds
Two RSS 2.0 feeds - new property listings and open house days.
Cross-component integration
Seamlessly tap into other components such as uddeIM for personal messaging, save
newsletter subscribers directly to the Letterman newsletter component and promote user
interactivity with the jReviews commenting and ratings system.
Customer Tools
Cross-browser "add to favourites" bookmarking function, recommend to friend email, print

property details, contact seller/agent, add to mailing list request. Add to mailing list
requests are now saved to database, and can be exported in XML format for import into a
mailing list manager.
Multi-Lingual
EZ Realty has multi-lingual support - meaning it is coded with language tags and has a
language file system to enable the translation of embedded page text. It also comes with
a set of JoomFish and NokKaew content element files to enable you to translate the
database content.
Multiple ways to search
EZ Realty has search filters, zip/postcode radius search, find property by ID/MLS ID #,
agent/seller search and more.

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Bonus Addons
EZ Realty comes with a range of modules to extend your site, including:- new property
listings, random property listings, single featured property listing, multiple featured
property listings, top localities, mortgage calculator, loan calculator, featured seller, latest
sellers, large search filter, agent/seller search by locality, and a jReviews plugin for
commenting and rating.
1.3 System requirements
EZ Realty is not a "stand-alone" script - it's a component developed for use with the
Joomla! content management system. As a "database-driven" PHP script, EZ Realty
requires:-
· Joomla! 1.5x content management system.

· PayPal account if wanting to offer paid member's listings.
· MySQL database - tested on servers running versions 3.23.54 - 5.0.51b
· PHP scripting support - tested on servers running versions 4.2.2 - 5.2.6
1.4 Getting help

Visit http://www.justjoomla.com and you'll be able to access our various support
mechanisms.

Part
II
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2 Installations and Upgrades
2.1 Joomla 1.5x system

The key activities involved in getting everything installed and setup on Joomla 1.5x could
be summarized as follows:-
Key EZ Realty component installation activities:-
1. Install the EZ Realty component and migrate the site members

2. Create a main menu link to EZ Realty
3. Configure EZ Realty and save the settings
4. Install the EZ Realty system plugin and publish it
Various EZ Realty Modules
1. Install the various modules

2. Review and configure the parameters of each module via the module manager, and save
the settings
Other activities
1. The new listings and open house listings RSS feeds have a placeholder image of the EZ
Realty logo - so you will want to personalize this with your own logo. Create an image
called rss_logo.jpg and upload it to the components/com_ezrealty/images directory.
2.1.1 New EZ Realty Installation on Joomla 1.5x
Step 1
Install the EZ Realty component according to the Joomla extensions installation

directions. Refer to the Joomla help documentation for this. Normally, you follow the
Extensions->Install/Uninstall admin area menu link and then use the "upload package file"
installation method.
Step 2
Once EZ Realty is installed - follow the "Components" -> "EZ Realty" menu link and the EZ
Realty admin cPanel will open.

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Step 3
Click the "Sync Members and Listings" button located in the "Maintenance Tools" section
of the EZ Realty cPanel. This will copy over site member details not already in the
Profiles table.
Step 4
Install the EZ Realty System Plugin and publish it. You should have downloaded this
package at the same time as you downloaded EZ Realty.
Step 5
Create a main menu link to EZ Realty using the Joomla menu manager system. Do this
step now.
Step 6
Return to the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click on the "Configuration Settings" button in the
"System Management Areas" section of the EZ Realty admin cPanel, review all of the
configuration settings and update them to reflect your needs. Click the save button
when done, and return to the EZ Realty admin cPanel.
Step 7
Review the various system management areas - eg. categories, localities, states,
countries, price list, profile manager and static content etc. Set this information up to
meet your site requirements and update the profile information. You may not need to
update all of these areas - as you may not be using all of these information areas on your
site - but you do need to review all of the information just to be certain.
Step 8
Make sure there are NO warnings in the "Checks" section of the EZ Realty admin cPanel.
If there are - fix them now.
Step 9
You can now create some property listings to test out the front-end operation of your
site.
2.1.2 EZ Realty upgrades on Joomla 1.5x

Upgrading your EZ Realty installation from an older 5.x version to the new 6.x version isn't
difficult - but you MUST take your time - and you MUST make sure you understand and
follow every step very carefully.
Step 1
Backup your site's files and database. This is always the first thing to do, as you will
need these in case something goes wrong and you need to restore your site. You will
also need the property listing images, associated PDF files that were uploaded and any

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seller profile images - so it is absolutely important that you've downloaded all of your site
files to your local computor's hard drive.
Step 2
FTP into your site - and the first place you'll be is the Joomla root directory. From there
you need to follow the administrator/components directory path - and once there you'll
see the com_ezrealty directory. Rename that directory to com_ezrealty-orig. Once
that's done - return to the root Joomla directory - and then go into the components
directory. You'll see the frontend component directories there - so rename the
com_ezrealty directory in that particular directory to com_ezrealty-orig. Now that you've
got the EZ Realty directories for the current installation renamed so they don't have any
files accidentally overwritten - it's time to move on to getting the new files uploaded.
Step 3
Before you begin uploading the new files and directories - there are two directories of files
that you do NOT need to upload as part of step 3. Those directories are the "lang" and
"sql" directories - as the sql directory is only used during the new installation process, and
if doing an upgrade - then the language files need to be uploaded separately.
Remain where you are in the frontend components directory - which should be viewable in
the main right window of your FTP programme. Use the left window of your FTP
programme to browse through your local file structure. Locate the directory that contains
the contents of the com_ezrealty_6.0.0rc1.zip package - and you should see directories
called "admin" and "component", and a file called com_ezrealty.xml. We'll just deal with
the directory called "component" at this stage - as it contains the files needed for the
frontend of your site. Return to the FTP browser window for your site - and remember
you should be in the frontend components directory. Create a new directory called
com_ezrealty and then open up that directory. Also open the "components" directory
located in your left FTP browser window - and upload the contents of that directory to
the site's new com_ezrealty directory. Once those files have been uploaded - return to
your site's root directory - and then FTP into the administrator/components directory.
Create a new com_ezrealty directory once you get there - and then use your local files
browser window to open up the "admin" directory of the zip package you opened earlier.
That directory contains the contents of the admin side of EZ Realty - so upload the
contents of that directory to the administrator/components/com_ezrealty directory.
Once you've uploaded the files - upload the com_ezrealty.xml file which was outside of
the "admin" and "components" directory. This takes care of the actual system files - now
it's time to deal with the images and pdf files etc.
Step 4
Return to your site's root directory - and then go into the components/com_ezrealty
directory. You will see directories called "ezrealty", "pdfs", "profiles" - and inside the
"ezrealty" directory is the thumbnails directory called "th". The site files that you
downloaded also contain those directories - so upload the image and PDF contents of
those directories up to the new directories - so your data will have the required images.
Alternatively - you can move the images and pdf files located within the renamed
com_ezrealty-orig directory across to the new directory.
Step 5

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Running version 6 of EZ Realty on Joomla 1.5x also means that the language files are
located in a different place. You'll see the unzipped EZ Realty package contains a
directory called "lang" inside both the admin and components directories. These two
directories contain the EZ Realty language files - and they need to be uploaded to the
administrator/language/language type directory and the root language/language type
directory. Remember - each language has its own directory on Joomla 1.5x.
Step 6
once the new files have been uploaded, log into the admin area and follow the
"components"->"EZ Realty" menu link.
Step 7
when the page opens, you'll now be in the EZ Realty admin cPanel. First up click on the
"Upgrade Database" button.
Step 8
After upgrading the database, you may need to sync your site members with the EZ
Realty profiles database. You only need to do this if you're upgrading from one of the
older 4.x versions, and it only requires you to click on the "Synch" button.
Step 9
Now it's time to go and update the configuration area - so click on the "Configuration
Settings" button and update the settings. There have been a number of changes - so
make sure you read through everything - configure the settings to the way you need
them - and then click the "save" button.
Step 10
Return to the EZ Realty admin cPanel and click on the "Property Manager" button. Once
you've reached the list of properties - check through your listings and update any
information fields that require updating.
2.1.3 New module installations on Joomla 1.5x

Install the EZ Realty modules according to the Joomla extensions installation directions.
Refer to the Joomla help documentation for this. Normally, you follow the Extensions-
>Install/Uninstall admin area menu link and then use the "upload package file" installation
method.
After you have installed the module, follow the Extensions->Module Manager admin area
menu link and configure the module parameters according to your site needs.
2.1.4 Module upgrades on Joomla 1.5x
Step 1

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Unzip the module package, and then browse the local file structure using your FTP
program until you find the unzipped directory. Move into this and you'll see the files and
any directories.
Step 2
Upload these using your FTP program to the root Joomla modules/module name directory,
and when asked about overwriting existing files/directories - select yes. When doing
upgrades - you must make sure that the files and directories you upload have
actually overwritten the files and directories on the server - otherwise the new
files and directories will not be in the correct place on the server and your upgrade
will not work correctly.
Step 3
Upload any language files associated with EZ Realty version 6 to the Joomla root language
directory. Do NOT upload the older php language files to this directory - ONLY the .ini
language files.
Step 4
Once the upload is complete, go into the module manager and open up the module you've
just updated. Configure the module parameters to your site's needs, and then click the
"save" button.

Part
III
20 EZ Realty 6.0x
3 Overview and use of EZ Realty
3.1 The EZ Realty Admin cPanel

The control panel is your doorway to EZ Realty. It's where you'll find buttons to all the
admin areas that allow you to manage the property listings on your site as well as other
aspects of site operation - and it's divided into 3 areas.
EZ Realty Admin Property Manager cPanel
System Management Areas:-

These buttons lead to areas concerned with setting up the EZ Realty system to run
and manage your property listings.
Maintenance Tools:-
The maintenance tools are press-button functions concerned with "housekeeping"
activities to keep your site squeaky clean. They include email tools to send out email
notifications associated with your site operation, and various database functions to
keep your tables in order.
Tabbed Extras:-
The tabbed pages in the cPanel are where you'll find some additional
information on the status of your site setup, and a form to easily import zip/

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postcodes into your postcode reference table if using the zip/postcode radius
search.
3.1.1 System Management Areas
3.1.1.1 Property Manager
Before you add a property listing:-
Once you've downloaded the EZ Realty package and installed it and the various modules -
you'll be keen to start listing properties on your site. Before you can actually list a
property though - you must get EZ Realty ready for these listings.
This means taking your time with configuring EZ Realty, setting up the data, installing the
various modules, system mambot/plugin - AND making sure the essential bots/plugins and
modules are published correctly.
If you don't setup your data areas - you'll find you can't create the property listing
because you're missing essential data - or you'll find you can't save it because you're
missing profiles to assign the listing to ;-)
3.1.1.1.1 Overview of the property manager screen
ID#:-
The ID number associated with the property listing.
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select properties
for various functions. You can select individually by clicking a checkbox one
at a time, or you can bulk select by clicking the top checkbox that's beside
the "ID#" column heading.

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Thumbnail image:-
The image thumbnail in the number 1 position.
Address:-
The property address.
MLS#:-
This is the MLS# entered for the property listing if one is used.
Property type:-
This is the property type - ie. category such as house, apartment, vacant land
etc.
Listed price:-
This is the listed price of the property, and it also shows the currency sign.
Hits:-
This number represents the number of page impressions the full property details
page has had.
Published:-
This indicates whether or not the listing is published.
Premium:-
This indicates whether or not the listing is free or a premium listing. Free listings
are grey, premium listings are orange.
Featured:-
This indicates whether or not the listing has had featured status assigned to it.
Seller:-
This is the seller associated with the property listing.

Sold?:-
This indicates the market status of the property listing - ie. whether it's available,
sold, under contract etc.
Date listed:-
This is the date the property listing was created.
Last update:-
This is the date the listing was last updated.
Delete:-
This is the delete listing link. Click this link when you want to delete a listing, and
it will delete all images and attached PDF documents.
Print:-
Click this link if you need to print out a quick copy of the property listing.
Order by selector list:-
This selector list allows you to reorder the property listings in the admin area
based on a number of different parameters.
Filter by selector lists:-
You can filter and narrow the property listings by using these filters.
Publish button:-
If using this "publish" property button, you must first select a single listing
by clicking the selector checkbox - or you can do a bulk publish by clicking
the top checkbox beside the "ID#" column title. Clicking this one will select
all items on the page for publishing.
Unpublish button:-
The "unpublish" button works in the same way as the "publish" button.
Either select an individual property listing by marking the checkbox then
clicking the "unpublish" button, or click the top selector box next to the
"ID#" column title to select all page items - then click the "unpublish"

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button to unpublish all of the page items.
New button:-
To create a new property listing, click the "New" button.
Edit button:-
This is the "Edit" property listing button - simply select the property to be
edited by clicking the selector checkbox beside the ID#, and then click the
"Edit" button. Or - simply click on the property address - it's hyperlinked
and will take you to the "edit" page.
Copy button:-
Select the checkboxes of the property listings you want to duplicate - and
then click the copy button. Copying a listing will ONLY copy data - it will
not store the same image details for use in the copied listing. The
rationale behind this is you may end up with property listings that have no
images if one of the copies is deleted along with the images.
cPanel button:-
Clicking this button returns you to the main EZ Realty admin control panel.
3.1.1.1.2 Overview of the add/edit property listing form

Address data:-
Unit number:-
Not all addresses have a unit number/shop number/office number etc, but if it does
- this field is the one to use - as it will not interfere with the calculation of decimal
coordinates.
Street number:-
This field is for the street number of the seller's address.
Street name:-
This field is for the street name of the seller's address.
Country:-
This field is for the seller's country.
State/Regional area:-
This field is for the state/province/region of the seller.
City/town/suburb:-
This field is for the seller's locality - eg. city, town, suburb, village -
however it's expressed in your part of the world.
Zip/Postcode:-
If you use zip/postcodes in your part of the world - this is the field for that value
when creating a seller address.
County/Municipality/Council:-
Enter own decimal coordinates manually:-
The decimal latitude and longitude are normally generated automatically

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based on the seller's address details, however if you're in a part of the

world that isn't serviced well by google mapping and you get incorrect map
locations as a result - select "yes" to enter your own decimal coordinates
manually - and then use the coordinates finder to locate those
coordinates. These coordinates affect the map on the seller profile page -
NOT the map associated with any property listing.
Launch coordinates finder link:-
Clicking this button will open a pop-up map, and you can use it to locate
the coordinates for your seller address. Just click on the map where the
address is and the coordinates will be generated, then copy/paste those
coordinates into the latitude and longitude fields.
Decimal latitude:-
If you just let the mapping system auto-generate your decimal coordinates
- the decimal latitude will appear hear after saving the profile.
Decimal longitude:-
- the decimal longitude will appear hear after saving the profile.
Display address:-
View school profile:-
View neighborhood profile:-
Base property details:-
Bedrooms:-


Bathrooms:-
Total rooms:-
Living area:-
Parking:-
Stories:-
Full Property Description:-
Full property description:-
Marketing Details:-
This section of data enables you to setup the pricing of the property, its
classification and categorization, and associated information associated with
pricing such as whether to display the price, messages to display in place of the
price, and the sale price if the property has been sold.

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General Residential Info:-
This section of data enables you to display information of relevance to residents

such as closest town, closest transport, schools, day care, universities etc.
Miscellaneous Land & Building Info:-
This section of data contains general information about the land type/size/
measurements and building age.
Business Info:-
This section of data contains general information about any businesses that may
be listed for sale.
Rural Info:-
This section of data contains general information of relevance to rural properties.
Custom Specifications:-
This section of data is for use if you have something special that needs inclusion in
your property listings. Rename the field labels by editing the EZ Realty language
files in the various Joomla language directories.
Features:-
Pre-defined features:-
The pre-defined features simply cover common property features people looking at
real estate may be interested in, and if the names do not suit your needs or
geographical area - edit the names via the EZ Realty language file in the
components/com_ezrealty/language directory.
Extra features:-
The extra features are available for you to name as you choose, and you need to
edit the language file to change these names to the ones you want..

Auction Details:-
If the property is for auction - you can include the auction date/time, as well as
some information such as the auction venue.
Open House Inspection Details:-
This section of data allows you to provide details of an open house inspection day
if one is being held.
Marketing Resources:-
This section of data allows you to provide various details and resources to aid in
your marketing efforts. Information such as a short catchy sales phrase, a short
introduction description of the property listing, a media file of some sort and a PDF
document containing property information.
Meta Tags:-
This section of data allows you to enhance the metatags in the page header, and
the 2 included here are the meta description and the meta keywords.
Admin:-
This section of data allows you to define the listing owner - ie. the seller profile
and ultimately the Joomla membership account that the listing is tied to, as well as
an associate seller. It's also where you assign whether this is a free listing,
premium listing or a featured listing. Remember when creating a featured listing -
it should also have premium status.
Reference and Tracking Numbers:-
This section of data allows you to assign various reference/tracking numbers used
to identify the listing on other property listing systems, or your own internal office
system records.
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If you have need of making private notes about a listing, this is where you can
record that information. Remember - information of a sensitive nature should not
be stored online.
Images:-
The images tab is where you manage the images for your property listing. You're
able to upload up to 24 images - and the images tab allows you to include an
image description, delete multiple images, preview the full image in a new window -
as well as re-order the images.
If you choose to upload 24 images at one time - this WILL place a strain on your
server - specifically the memory required to process the image upload, thumbnail
creation and main image creation. You must also take into account the combined
size of the images when doing the upload, as many php setup have a default
upload maximum size of about 2M, and as processing 24 images can be time-
consuming - it can take longer than normal for the function to be executed.
Depending on your server setup - you may receive an error message telling you
there was insufficient memory.
If you receive this type of error - go to the EZ Realty configuration area - and look
on the first images tab. There is a setting there to allow you to temporarily over-
ride the php.ini settings associated with memory. The over-ride will only happen
during the image upload process, and it may be necessary if you're using large
images.
Other approaches to solving the problem include modifying the .htaccess file to
increase the following php settings, as they're all involved in whether large uploads
are successful or not:-
· php_value post_max_size (eg. 130M)

· php_value upload_max_filesize (eg. 130M)
· php_value max_execution_time (eg. 500)
Alternatively - you could get your web hosting technical support people to modify
your php.ini file to change those settings.
3.1.1.1.3 Add/edit a property listing
Adding a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Property Manager" icon.

2. This will open the "Manage Property Listings" page, and once there - click on the "New"
button up in the top right hand corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the property details.
4. Click the "Save" button up in the top right hand corner of the page to save and exit the
record, or click the "Apply" button up in the top right hand corner of the page to save
the record and keep it open.
If you decide not to save the new record - simply click the "Cancel" button up in the top
right hand corner of the screen.
Editing a record:-
2. This will open the "Manage Property Listings" page, and once there - click on the
hyperlinked property address you want to edit - or click the checkbox next to the
property you want to edit and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right hand
corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - update the property details.
4. Click the "Save" button up in the top right hand corner of the page to save and exit the
record, or click the "Apply" button up in the top right hand corner of the page to save
the record and keep it open.
If you decide not to save the changes to the record - simply click the "Close" button up in
the top right hand corner of the screen.
3.1.1.1.4 Removing a property listing
Deleting a single entry
2. This will open the "Manage Property Listings" page.
3. Find the property you want to delete, and select the checkbox to the left of the
property image.
4. Click the delete button up in the top right hand corner of the screen.
Deleting multiple entries
3. Read through the list and decide on what items you want to delete.
4. Select the checkbox to the left of each image for the properties you want to delete.
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3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar in the very left column. This will
auto-select all checkboxes for every property listed on the page output.
3.1.1.1.5 Publishing/unpublishing a property listing
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual properties:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Property Manager" icon, and this
will open the "Manage Property Listings" page
2. Once the "Manage Property Listings" page opens, - click on the "publish/unpublish"
button graphic which is approximately in the center column, or click the checkbox to
the left of the property address and then click on the publish or unpublish button up in
the top right hand corner of your screen.
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple properties:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Property Manager" icon, and this
will open the "Manage Property Listings" page
2. Once the "Manage Property Listings" page opens, - review the properties and decide
which ones you want to publish or unpublish, and then click the checkbox to the left of
the property addresses - then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top
right hand corner of your screen.
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all properties:-
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar at the very left of this header
strip. This will auto-select all checkboxes for every property on the page.
4. Click the publish or unpublish button up in the top right hand corner of the screen
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the properties.
3.1.1.2 Categories
The "Property Category" manager is where you define the categories under which you list
properties for sale. This is your primary method of categorization, and common choices
include:- "Houses for Sale", "Flats & Units", "Vacant Land", "Farms & Pastoral", "Acreage",
"Rental Properties", "Holiday Lettings" etc. It's your choice - and you're only limited by
your imagination and property listings. When defining your property categories, give it a
name, include a short description, assign access rights, select it's order and decide on an
image representative of the category. Images are optional. Once you've finished entering
in the category details, press the "save" button in the top left corner of the screen. This
will save the details to database, then you need to "publish" the category before being
able to use it elsewhere on the site. Once saved and published, the categories you've
created will appear in "drop-down" selection boxes on the "Add/Edit Property Details" page
in the admin area and front-end member's listing area, show up on the front-end as a
category containing property listings as well as on the search page as a variable you can

filter properties by.
3.1.1.2.1 Overview of the category manager screen
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select categories
for various functions. You can select individually by clicking a checkbox
one at a time, or you can bulk select by clicking the top checkbox that's
beside the "Category" column heading.
Category name column:-
This is the "Category" name column - all EZ Realty property categories

have their names displayed here. You're able to click on the category
names in order to edit them, as these are hyperlinked names.
Publish/unpublish icon status:-
The "publish/unpublish" indicator button displays a red X when the item is

unpublished, and a small page icon with green tick when the item is
published. You're able to click on these icons to change the publishing
status. Click the red X and the item will change its status to "published",
while if you click the page icon with green tick you'll change the status to
"unpublished".
Access level indicator:-
Categories can be assigned access privileges based on Joomla's core

access levels of "Public", "Registered" and "Special". A category assigned
"Public" access privileges will permit the general site visitor to access and
view category contents, while a category assigned "Registered" access
privileges will only permit registered site members who are logged in
access. Special access privileges restricts access to site administrators.
For general site use - categories should be assigned "Public" access

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Ordering:-
You can choose the display order of property categories simply by clicking
the up and down arrows.
Publish category button:-
If using this "publish" category button, you must first select a single
category name by clicking the selector checkbox - or you can do a bulk
publish by clicking the top checkbox beside the "Category" column title.
Clicking this one will select all items on the page for publishing.
Unpublish category button:-
Either select an individual category by marking the checkbox then clicking
the "unpublish" button, or click the top selector box next to the "category"
column title to select all page items - then click the "unpublish" button to
unpublish all of the page items.
New category button:-
To create a new property category, click the "New" button.
Edit category button:-
This is the "Edit" category button - simply select the category to be edited
by clicking the selector checkbox beside the category name, and then click
the "Edit" button. Or - simply click on the category name - it's hyperlinked
Delete category button:-
The "Delete" button will allow you to delete categories that have been
selected by clicking on the selector checkbox. You can delete categories
individually or you can delete multiple categories at the one time.
cPanel button:-
Clicking this button returns you to the main EZ Realty control panel.
3.1.1.2.2 Overview of the add/edit category screen
This page opens when you add or edit property categories, and it has a number of fields
to be filled out, as well as an image.

Save button:-
When you create a new category or make changes to an existing category

- clicking on the "Save" button will save the changes to the database, and
return you to the main category listing page.
Cancel button:-
Should you decide not to continue creating a new category, or if you

decide not to keep the changes you made to a category - click the
"Cancel" button. Don't simply use the browser's back button - exit out of
this screen correctly by using the "Cancel" button.
When editing a category, that category is "checked out" so others cannot

edit it at the same time. Then when you "save" or "cancel" an action - the
item is checked back in, and it's once again available for editing by others.
Category name:-
This is where the property category name goes. For example, you may
have categories called:- houses, apartments, vacant land, commercial,
farms/pastoral etc.
Category description:-
You can enter a category description here, which will give site visitors an
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Access level:-
In general - most categories should be defined as having a "public" access

level, although you can assign different access levels.
Ordering:-
This allows you to specify the ordering of the property categories.
Drop-down image selector:-
You're able to assign an image to be displayed alongside the category

names and descriptions. Category images are stored in the Joomla images/
stories directory, and you can upload them via FTP or more conveniently -
using Joomla's media manager.
Category image preview:-
When a category image is selected, this is where the image preview will be
displayed.
3.1.1.2.3 Add/edit category
Adding a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Categories" icon.
2. This will open the "Property Category Manager" page, and once there - click on the
"New" button up in the top right hand corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the category name, write a short description if you
want, assign any access privileges you may need, choose an image representative of
the category if desired, and select where in the order the entry should appear.
4. Click the "Save" button up in the top right hand corner of the page.
Editing a record:-
2. This will open the "Property Category Manager" page, and once there - click on the
hyperlinked category name you want to edit - or click the checkbox next to the
category name you want to edit and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right
hand corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - update the category name, short description if you

want, change any access privileges you may need, choose a new image representative
of the category if desired, and select where in the order the entry should appear.
3.1.1.2.4 Removing a category
2. This will open the "Property Category Manager" page.
3. Find the category you want to delete, and select the checkbox to the left of the
category name.
4. Select the checkbox to the left of each category you want to delete.
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Category". This
will auto-select all checkboxes for every category listed on the page output.
4. Click the delete button up in the top right hand corner of the screen and all categories
will be deleted.
3.1.1.2.5 Re-ordering the categories
Method 1 - ordering via the manager screen:-
2. This will open the "Property Category Manager" page, and once there - click on the blue
"up" or "down" button graphic on the row of the entry you want to move. These
graphics are in the right hand column.
Method 2 - ordering via the add/edit entry screen:-

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2. This will open the "Property Category Manager" page, and once there - click on the item
name to open up the next screen, or select the checkbox next to the item name and
then click on the "Edit" button in the top right hand corner of the screen.
3. Once the add/edit screen opens up - use the ordering select list to position the item
where you want it to be in relation to the other records.
3.1.1.2.6 Publishing/unpublishing categories
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual categories:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Categories" icon, and this
will open the "Property Category Manager" page
2. Once the "Property Category Manager" page opens, - click on the "publish/unpublish"
button graphic to the right of the category name, or click the checkbox to the left of
the category name and then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top right
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple categories:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Categories" icon, and this
will open the "Property Category Manager" page
2. Once the "Property Category Manager" page opens, - review the categories and decide
the category names - then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top right
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all categories:-
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Category". This
will auto-select all checkboxes for every category shown on the page output.
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the categories.
3.1.1.3 Localities
The "Locality" manager is where you define the names of suburbs, towns and cities used
in property addresses. Once created and published, these will then appear in the "drop-
down" selection box on the "Add/Edit Property Details" page and in the front-end on the
search page as a variable you can filter properties by. This is just to save you repetitive
entry if running your own listings. Site members just enter their property localities using a
text box, which avoids any problems associated with not having the necessary locality
listed for their use.

3.1.1.3.1 Overview of the locality manager screen
Publish locality button:-
If using this "publish" locality button, you must first select a single locality
name by clicking the selector checkbox - or you can do a bulk publish by
clicking the top checkbox beside the "state" column title. Clicking this one
will select all items on the page for publishing.
Unpublish locality button:-
Either select an individual locality by marking the checkbox then clicking
the "unpublish" button, or click the top selector box next to the "state"
New locality button:-
To create a new locality, click the "New" button
Edit locality button:-
This is the "Edit" locality button - simply select the locality to be edited by
clicking the selector checkbox beside the locality name, and then click the
"Edit" button. Or - simply click on the locality name - it's hyperlinked and
will take you to the "edit" page.
Delete locality button:-
The "Delete" button will allow you to delete localities that have been
selected by clicking on the selector checkbox. You can delete localities
individually or you can delete multiple localities at the one time.
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Clicking this will return you to the EZ Realty cPanel.
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select localities for
various functions. You can select individually by clicking a checkbox one at
a time, or you can bulk select by clicking the top checkbox that's beside
the "state" column heading.
Linked state/country names:-
This column displays the state/province or country that the locality is

linked to.
Locality names:-
This is the list of localities - ie. cities, towns, suburbs - contained in the
EZ Realty localities table. Click on the locality name, and that will also open
up the add/edit locality screen.

"unpublished".
Reordering button:-
You can choose the display order of property localities simply by clicking
the up and down arrows.
Filter by states/countries:-
You can find localities that belong to a particular state or country by using
the dropdown filter list.
Admin ordering:-
To help locate localities in the admin area, you can also order entries using
the dropdown ordering list.

3.1.1.3.2 Overview of the add/edit locality screen
Locality name:-
This is where you enter the locality name.
State or country name:-
Localities get "chained" to states, so that when a state is selected from a

dropdown list - the localities list is populated with localities associated with
that state.
Locality description:-
Each locality can now have a description, and this is then visible in the
frontend full property details page when you hover a mouse over the
locality name.
Save button:-
Press the save button to save a new entry or apply changes when
updating an entry.
Cancel button:-
Press the cancel button to exit the screen.
3.1.1.3.3 Add/edit locality
Adding a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Localities" icon.
2. This will open the "Manage city/town/suburb search/select list" page, and once there -
click on the "New" button up in the top right hand corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the locality name, assign a state or country
(depending on how you have your chained selectors configured), write a short
description of the locality (if desired), and select where in the order the entry should
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Editing a record:-
click on the hyperlinked locality name you want to edit - or click the checkbox next to
the locality name you want to edit and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right
3. When the next screen opens - update the locality name, state or country (depending
on how you have your chained selectors configured), short description of the locality (if
desired), and select where in the order the entry should appear.
3.1.1.3.4 Removing a locality
2. This will open the "Manage city/town/suburb search/select list" page.
3. Find the locality you want to delete, and select the checkbox to the left of the locality
name.
4. Select the checkbox to the left of each locality you want to delete.
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "State/Regional
Area" (if chaining localities to states/regions) or next to the title "Country" (if chaining
localities to countries). This will auto-select all checkboxes for every locality listed on
the page output.

3.1.1.3.5 Re-ordering the localities
click on the blue "up" or "down" button graphic on the row of the entry you want to
move. These graphics are in the right hand column.
select the item to edit.
3.1.1.3.6 Publishing/unpublishing localities
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual localities:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Localities" icon, and this
will open the "Locality Manager" page
2. Once the "Manage city/town/suburb search/select list" page opens, - click on the
"publish/unpublish" button graphic to the right of the locality name, or click the
checkbox to the left of the locality name and then click on the publish or unpublish
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple localities:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Localities" icon, and this
will open the "Locality Manager" page
2. Once the "Manage city/town/suburb search/select list" page opens - review the
localities and decide which ones you want to publish or unpublish, and then click the
checkbox to the left of the locality names - then click on the publish or unpublish
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all localities:-
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "State/Regional
Area" (if chaining localities to states/regions) or next to the title "Country" (if chaining

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localities to countries). This will auto-select all checkboxes for every locality shown on
the page output.
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the localities.
3.1.1.4 States
The "States/Regional Area" manager is where you define the names of states or regional
areas used in property addresses. Once created and published, these will also appear in
the "drop-down" selection box on the "Add/Edit Property Details" page in the admin area
and the front-end member's area, as well as in the front-end on the search page as a
variable you can filter properties by.
3.1.1.4.1 Overview of the states manager screen
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select states for
the "Country" name column heading.
Country name
This column contains the country name that the state/regional area is associated
with if you're using countries and states/regional areas. If you have not enabled
use of countries - then you will not see this column.
State/Regional Area name column:-
This is the "State/Regional Area" name column - all states/regional areas

used by EZ Realty have their names displayed here. You're able to click on
the state/regional areas names in order to edit them, as these are
hyperlinked names.

"unpublished".
Ordering:-
You can choose the display order of states/regional areas simply by

clicking the up and down arrows.
Publish button:-
If using this "publish" button, you must first select a single state/regional
area name by clicking the selector checkbox - or you can do a bulk publish
by clicking the top checkbox beside the "Country" column title. Clicking this
one will select all items on the page for publishing.
Unpublish button:-
Either select an individual state/regional area by marking the checkbox
then clicking the "unpublish" button, or click the top selector box next to
the "country" column title to select all page items - then click the
"unpublish" button to unpublish all of the page items.
New state/regional area button:-
To create a new state/regional area, click the "New" button.
Edit state/regional area button:-
This is the "Edit" state/regional area button - simply select the state/
regional area to be edited by clicking the selector checkbox beside the
state/regional area name, and then click the "Edit" button. Or - simply click
on the state/regional area name - it's hyperlinked and will take you to the
"edit" page.
Delete state/regional area button:-
The "Delete" button will allow you to delete state/regional areas that have
been selected by clicking on the selector checkbox. You can delete state/
regional areas individually or you can delete multiple ones at the one time.
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Filter by country selector list:-
This selector list will allow you to identify states/regional areas for a specific
country. When you've finished working on the states/regional areas for a specific
country, select "All Countries" and it will return a list of all states/regional areas.
This selector list will allow you to re-order the states/regional areas based on a
number of different parameters. This selector list does not re-order the entries in
the database - it's purely a means to re-order the entries for page-viewing
purposes.
3.1.1.4.2 Overview of the add/edit state screen
State/Regional Area Name:-
This is where you enter the state/regional area name.
Select Country:-
You need to chain the states/regional areas to countries in order to enable

the chained selector lists to work.
Ordering:-
You can assign the entry into the order of other database entries.
Save button:-
updating an entry.
Cancel button:-

3.1.1.4.3 Add/edit state
Adding a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage States" icon.
2. This will open the "Manage state/regional area search/select list" page, and once there
- click on the "New" button up in the top right hand corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the name of the state or regional area, assign a
country if chaining states to a particular country, and select where in the order the
entry should appear.
Editing a record:-
- click on the hyperlinked state name you want to edit - or click the checkbox next to
the state name you want to edit and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right
3. When the next screen opens - update the state name, and assigned country
(depending on how you have your chained selectors configured), and select where in
the order the entry should appear.
3.1.1.4.4 Removing a state
2. This will open the "Manage state/regional area search/select list" page.
3. Find the state you want to delete, and select the checkbox to the left of the state.
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3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Country name" (if
chaining states/regions to countries) or next to the title "State/regional area name" (if
not chaining states to countries). This will auto-select all checkboxes for every state
listed on the page output.
3.1.1.4.5 Re-ordering the states
- click on the blue "up" or "down" button graphic on the row of the entry you want to
move. These graphics are in the right hand column.
- select the item to edit.
3.1.1.4.6 Publishing/unpublishing states
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual states:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage States" icon, and this will
open the "Manage state/regional area search/select list" page
2. Once the "Manage state/regional area search/select list" page opens, - click on the
"publish/unpublish" button graphic to the right of the state name, or click the checkbox
to the left of the state name and then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the
top right hand corner of your screen.
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple states:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage States" icon, and this will
open the "Manage state/regional area search/select list" page
2. Once the "Manage state/regional area search/select list" page opens, - review the
states and decide which ones you want to publish or unpublish, and then click the
checkbox to the left of the state names - then click on the publish or unpublish button

up in the top right hand corner of your screen.
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all states:-
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Country name" (if
chaining states/regions to countries) or next to the title "State/regional area name" (if
not chaining states to countries). This will auto-select all checkboxes for every state
shown on the page output.
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the states.
3.1.1.5 Countries
Just like the "State/Regional Area" manager, the "Countries" manager is where you define
the names of countries used in property addresses. Once created and published, they will
appear in the "drop-down" selection box on the "Add/Edit Property Details" page of the
admin area and front-end member's area, and in the front-end on the search page as a
variable you can filter properties by.
3.1.1.5.1 Overview of the country manager screen
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select countries for
the "Country" name column heading.
Country name column:-
This is the "Country" name column - all countries used by EZ Realty have
their names displayed here. You're able to click on the country names in
order to edit them, as these are hyperlinked names.

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"unpublished".
Ordering:-
You can choose the display order of countries simply by clicking the up and
down arrows.
Publish button:-
If using this "publish" button, you must first select a single country name
the top checkbox beside the "Country" column title. Clicking this one will
select all items on the page for publishing.
Unpublish button:-
Either select an individual country name by marking the checkbox then
"country" column title to select all page items - then click the "unpublish"
button to unpublish all of the page items.
New country button:-
To create a new country, click the "New" button.
Edit country button:-
This is the "Edit" country button - simply select the country to be edited
by clicking the selector checkbox beside the country name, and then click
the "Edit" button. Or - simply click on the country name - it's hyperlinked
Delete country button:-
The "Delete" button will allow you to delete countries that have been
selected by clicking on the selector checkbox. You can delete countries
individually or you can delete multiple ones at the one time.

cPanel button:-
This selector list will allow you to re-order the countries based on a number of
different parameters. This selector list does not re-order the entries in the
database - it's purely a means to re-order the entries for page-viewing purposes.
3.1.1.5.2 Overview of the add/edit country screen
Country Name:-
This is where you enter the country name.
Ordering:-
Save button:-
updating an entry.
Cancel button:-
3.1.1.5.3 Add/edit country
Adding a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Countries" icon.
2. This will open the "Manage country search/select list" page, and once there - click on
the "New" button up in the top right hand corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the country name, and select where in the order
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Editing a record:-
the hyperlinked country name you want to edit - or click the checkbox next to the
country name you want to edit and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right hand
corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - update the country name, and select where in the order
the entry should appear.
3.1.1.5.4 Removing a country
2. This will open the "Manage country search/select list" page.
3. Find the country you want to delete, and select the checkbox to the left of the
country name.
4. Select the checkbox to the left of each country name you want to delete.
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Country name".
This will auto-select all checkboxes for every country listed on the page output.
3.1.1.5.5 Re-ordering the countries

the blue "up" or "down" button graphic on the row of the entry you want to move.
These graphics are in the right hand column.
2. This will open the "Manage country search/select list" page, and once there - select
the item to edit.
3.1.1.5.6 Publishing/unpublishing countries
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual countries:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Countries" icon, and this
will open the "Manage country search/select list" page
2. Once the "Manage country search/select list" page opens, - click on the "publish/
unpublish" button graphic to the right of the country name, or click the checkbox to the
left of the country name and then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple countries:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Countries" icon, and this
will open the "Manage country search/select list" page
2. Once the "Manage country search/select list" page opens, - review the countries and
decide which ones you want to publish or unpublish, and then click the checkbox to the
left of the country names - then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all countries:-
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Country name".
This will auto-select all checkboxes for every country shown on the page output.
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the countries.
3.1.1.6 Price increments
The "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" area is where you create the incremental list
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module or main search filter page. While property details may have a specific value
defined, the price range gives your visitors a means to search for properties within a
certain upper and lower price range. The increment between the values depends on how
precise you want the search filter to be.
This page gives you an overview of what price increments you've set, and it allows you to
perform a range of functions such as publish/unpublish, add, edit, delete and reorder.
The other thing to remember is the database values are subject to an input mask of 0.00
- so you may want to create a list as follows:-
50000.00
100000.00
150000.00
200000.00
250000.00
300000.00
350000.00
400000.00
This list uses increments of 50000, but the increment used really depends on the range of
property prices you list. You will also notice there are 2 values displayed for each
increment - the filter value and the display value. This allows you to specify a people-
friendly value in the search filter while still retaining the correct database format for
property searches.
Also possible is assigning a particular price increment to be associated with a particular

listing type for special search purposes. For example - property rentals have a different
set of price ranges to property purchases - so you're now able to do this with EZ Realty.
3.1.1.6.1 Overview of the price increment manager screen
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select price
increments for various functions. You can select individually by clicking a
checkbox one at a time, or you can bulk select by clicking the top
checkbox that's beside the "price increment" column heading.

Price increment column:-
This is the "price increment" column - all price increments used by EZ

Realty have their values displayed here. You're able to click on the price
increment values in order to edit them, as these are hyperlinked names.
Display value column:-
This is the "price increment display value" which allows you to have people-friendly
display values for the price increments used by the search filter.
Listing type assignment status:-
These 6 columns display which search filter listing type these values are assigned
to.

"unpublished".
Ordering:-
You can choose the display order of price increments simply by clicking the
up and down arrows.
Publish button:-
If using this "publish" button, you must first select a single price increment
the top checkbox beside the "price increment" column title. Clicking this
one will select all items on the page for publishing.
Unpublish button:-
Either select an individual price increment by marking the checkbox then
"price increment" column title to select all page items - then click the
"unpublish" button to unpublish all of the page items.
New price increment button:-

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To create a new price increment, click the "New" button.
Edit price increment button:-
This is the "Edit" price increment button - simply select the price increment
to be edited by clicking the selector checkbox beside the price increment,
and then click the "Edit" button. Or - simply click on the price increment -
it's hyperlinked and will take you to the "edit" page.
Delete price increment button:-
The "Delete" button will allow you to delete the price increment that have
been selected by clicking on the selector checkbox. You can delete price
increments individually or you can delete multiple ones at the one time.
cPanel button:-
3.1.1.6.2 Overview of the add/edit price increment screen
Define search filter price increment:-
This is where you enter the database value of the price increment for use
in the search filter. These should be entered without commas, and should
have a decimal point with 2 places at the end as per the sample entry
above.
Display Value:-
This is where you define the "people-friendly" display value for the price
increment used to search the database..
For sale price lists:-

You can assign the entry to display only on the "for sale" search form.
For rent price lists:-
You can assign the entry to display only on the "for rent" search form.
For lease price lists:-
You can assign the entry to display only on the "for lease" search form.
For auction price lists:-
You can assign the entry to display only on the "for auction" search form.
For tender price lists:-
You can assign the entry to display only on the "for tender" search form.
For exchange price lists:-
You can assign the entry to display only on the "for exchange" search
form.
Ordering:-
Save button:-
updating an entry.
Cancel button:-
3.1.1.6.3 Add/edit price list increment
Adding a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Price List" icon.
2. This will open the "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" page, and once there - click
on the "New" button up in the top right hand corner of your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the base price increment, the display value, the
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Editing a record:-
on the hyperlinked price increment you want to edit - or click the checkbox next to the
price increment you want to edit and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the base price increment, the display value, the
lists it should be associated with and select where in the order the entry should appear.
3.1.1.6.4 Removing a price list increment
2. This will open the "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" page.
3. Find the price increment you want to delete, and select the checkbox to the left of the
price increment.
4. Select the checkbox to the left of each price increment you want to delete.
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Search Filter
Price Increment". This will auto-select all checkboxes for every price increment listed
on the page output.
3.1.1.6.5 Re-ordering price list increments

on the blue "up" or "down" button graphic on the row of the entry you want to move.
These graphics are in the right hand column.
2. This will open the "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" page, and once there - select
the item to edit.
3.1.1.6.6 Publishing/unpublishing price increments
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual price increments:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Price List" icon, and this
will open the "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" page
2. Once the "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" page opens, - click on the "publish/
unpublish" button graphic to the right of the price increment, or click the checkbox to
the left of the price increment and then click on the publish or unpublish button up in
the top right hand corner of your screen.
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple price increments:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Price List" icon, and this
will open the "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" page
2. Once the "Manage Search Filter Price Increment" page opens, - review the price
increments and decide which ones you want to publish or unpublish, and then click the
checkbox to the left of the price increments - then click on the publish or unpublish
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all price increments:-
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "Search Filter
Price Increment". This will auto-select all checkboxes for every price increment shown
on the page output.
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the price increments.
3.1.1.7 Profile manager
The profiling system is basically a self-contained system like CB - except it doesn't have
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the standard Joomla registration system - then before they're permitted to list their first
property - they must have their profile filled in. They do this via the member's frontend
cPanel - or the admin can create a profile via the admin backend. Profiles can be publicly
viewable, or you can disable that. Also - in the configuration area there's a setting on the
business page to allow the site owner to over-ride the contact functions. Profiles and
contact details will be maintained by people listing properties - but their profiles won't be
viewable and all contact enquiries will go to the site admin. This is for agents who run
rentals etc who have their clients maintain the property listings - but they as the agent
manage the enquiries etc.
3.1.1.7.1 Overview of the profile manager screen
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select profiles for

ID#:-
The ID number associated with the seller profiles relates to their core Mambo/
Joomla membership ID number.
Profile Image and logo:-
If sellers choose to upload a profile image/avatar and/or logo, you'll see a

thumbnail image of it in these columns. Sites with a large number of members can
be very slow to load this area - so you can turn off displaying the profile image
here by editing the EZ Realty configuration area.
Dealer/Seller Name:-
Sellers are able to specify the name they'd like displayed to site visitors.
Number of Listings:-
Sites with a large number of members and vehicle listings can be very slow to load
this area due to the database queries run to calculate how many listings each
profile has listed. To avoid this slowdown to your site - turn off the display of
listing numbers over in the EZ Realty configuration area.
Company:-
Sellers are able to specify a company name to display to site visitors - particularly
if they're an agent associated with a particular company.
Email address:-
All seller profiles must have an email address specified, as this is used for contact
purposes by site visitors.

"unpublished".
Delete Link:-

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This link allows you to delete a particular profile. You are only able to delete
profiles that have no listings though.
Publish profile button:-
If using this "publish" profile button, you must first select a single profile
name by clicking the selector checkbox - or you can do a bulk publish by
clicking the top checkbox beside the "ID#" column title. Clicking this one
will select all items on the page for publishing.
Unpublish profile button:-
Either select an individual profile by marking the checkbox then clicking the
"unpublish" button, or click the top selector box next to the "ID#" column
title to select all page items - then click the "unpublish" button to
New profile button:-
To create a new profile, click the "New" button.
Edit profile button:-
This is the "Edit" profile button - simply select the profile to be edited by
clicking the selector checkbox beside the ID#, and then click the "Edit"
button. Or - simply click on the profile name - it's hyperlinked and will take
you to the "edit" page.
cPanel button:-
Clicking this button returns you to the main EZ Realty admin control panel.
3.1.1.7.2 Overview of the add/edit profile screen - address tab
Link to existing member:-
Each seller profile must be linked to an existing member account, so when

you create a seller profile - you must select a member from this drop-down
list of members registered on the site.
Agent/Seller name:-
This is where you enter the person's name as it will appear on their profile page.
Seller type:-
As potential buyers like to know who they're dealing with - this list enables you to
assign a seller type to the profile. There are 5 different seller types available.
Company:-
If a seller represents a real estate company etc, then this is where they can
specify their company affiliation.
Unit number:-
Not all addresses have a unit number/shop number/office number etc, but if it does
- this field is the one to use - as it will not interfere with the calculation of decimal
coordinates.
Street number:-
This field is for the street number of the seller's address.
Street name:-
This field is for the street name of the seller's address.
Locality:-
This field is for the seller's locality - eg. city, town, suburb, village -
however it's expressed in your part of the world.
Zip/Postcode:-
State:-
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Country:-
This field is for the seller's country.
Enter own decimal coordinates manually:-
The decimal latitude and longitude are normally generated automatically

based on the seller's address details, however if you're in a part of the
world that isn't serviced well by google mapping and you get incorrect map
locations as a result - select "yes" to enter your own decimal coordinates
manually - and then use the coordinates finder to locate those
coordinates. These coordinates affect the map on the seller profile page -
NOT the map associated with any property listing.
Launch coordinates finder link:-
Decimal latitude:-
Decimal longitude:-
Display address:-
Selecting yes or no will determine whether your seller address or

associated map is displayed on your profile page. Private sellers would
probably want to keep their address details and location private, however
real estate agents, brokers and other professionals involved in the real
estate industry would probably want to have their business address
available to potential customers.
Save button:-
updating an entry, and you will then exit the screen back to the list of
profiles.

Apply button:-
Press the apply button to save the new entry or apply changes when
updating an entry, and you will then be returned to the entry to continue
adding more data or to further review the data you've entered.
Cancel button:-
Press the cancel button to discard the data changes and exit the screen.
3.1.1.7.3 Overview of the add/edit profile screen - contact tab
Email:-
Sellers are required to provide an email address for their profile, as this is
used by prospective buyers to contact them.
Phone #:-
Sellers can provide their telephone number if they want to receive phone calls from
prospective buyers. While real estate professionals would most likely provide their
business telephone number - it may not necessarily be advisable for private sellers
to publish their home telephone number.
Fax #:-
Sellers can provide their fax number if they want to receive documents or
proposals from prospective buyers. While real estate professionals would most
likely provide their business fax number - it may not necessarily be advisable for
private sellers to publish their private fax number.
Mobile #:-

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This field is for the seller's mobile phone number if they want to receive telephone
calls from prospective buyers.
Web site URL:-
Businesses and individuals may also want to include details of their web site.
Blog site URL:-
Some professionals may have a blog of relevance to the real estate industry, and
they may also like to use this as a promotional tool to establish their credibility as
a seller.
Skype username:-
If sellers want to be contacted via Skype - they may choose to include their
Skype contact details.
Yahoo username:-
If sellers want to be contacted via Yahoo messenger - they may choose to

include their Yahoo contact details.
ICQ username:-
If sellers want to be contacted via ICQ - they may choose to include their ICQ
contact details.

3.1.1.7.4 Overview of the add/edit profile screen - promotional tab
LinkedIn:-
LinkedIn is a social networking site, and sellers may like to include their
LinkedIn profile URL to enable prospective buyers to find out more about
them.
Personal introduction:-
This is where you can write a short personal introduction. It gets displayed on the
featured seller module if it's in use, and is also displayed on the seller's profile
page.
Profile image:-

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The profile image is shown on the seller's profile page, the featured seller module
and the latest seller's module - as well as the list of all sellers listed on the site.
Agency logo:-
The agency logo is only shown on select listing page templates - so you will not
necessarily see it on your site. It depends on what templates you've configured
your site to use.
Page topper:-
The page topper is only shown on the seller's page of listings. For best effects -
you should experiment with your site template and determine the best width and
height for this graphic - and then configure the page topper settings in the EZ
Realty configuration area accordingly.
Promotional PDF:-
Professional real estate sellers may want to also upload a PDF document promoting
their business and personal expertise.
Professional Bio:-
This is where sellers can write a more extensive professional biography, and it's
shown on the sellers profile page.
3.1.1.7.5 Overview of the add/edit profile screen - privileges tab
Payment exemption:-
If you're running your site in one of the paid listing modes - you can give
certain sellers a payment exemption privilege. This has the effect of
allowing the seller to create premium listings at no cost while other sellers
without this privilege still have to pay. Situations where you may want to
use this feature include larger car dealerships - and you could combine the
payment exemption with an alternative income method by charging the

seller a monthly fee for the payment exemption. For example - you could
invoice them for this privilege via an invoicing system or your could
organize some other payment agreement.
Featured listings management:-
If you've assigned a seller payment exemption privileges - you can give them the
additional privilege of being able to upgrade their listings to featured status. This
could also form the basis of an additional fee to sellers if you've arranged some
type of an external payment agreement for these privileges.
Publishing privileges:-
If you've got your site configured to hold all listings for administrator review prior
to publishing - you can assign publishing privileges - which will allow selected
sellers to self-publish their listings.
Expiry reset privileges:-
If you've assigned payment exemption privileges, and if you're using one of the
expiry management systems - you can assign sellers the privilege of resetting the
expiry date of their lisitngs.
Approve profile:-
You can configure EZ Realty to auto-approve profiles when they're created - or to

hold them for review prior to approval. This field allows you to set the status of
the profile if they do need to be reviewed first.
3.1.1.7.6 Add/edit profile
Creating a profile via the site's front-end:-
Creating a profile via the site's front-end can only be done by the site member while
they're logged into the site. Once they've logged into the site, they go into the front-end
EZ Panel and click on the profile button. That will take them to their EZ Realty profile
page where they can add/edit the details they'd like to share.
Creating a new profile via the admin interface:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Profile Manager" icon.
2. This will open the "Manage Agent/Seller Profiles" page, and once there - click on the
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required fields.
Editing a profile via the site's front-end:-
Editing a profile via the site's front-end can only be done by the site member while they're
logged into the site. Once they've logged into the site, they go into the front-end EZ
Panel and click on the profile button. That will take them to their EZ Realty profile page
where they can edit their details.
Editing a profile via the admin interface:-
2. This will open the "Manage Agent/Seller Profiles" page, and once there - click on the
3. When the next screen opens - you will see there are 4 tabbed pages, as well as a text
editor area beneath these. Select a member account from the drop-down list, assign a
seller type, then fill in the rest of the details. Remember there are some "required"
fields that must be filled in, there are also the 2 decimal coordinates fields that will be
auto-calculated during the save process (based on address variables), and there are
optional fields that can be left blank.
3.1.1.7.7 Removing a profile
2. This will open the "Manage Agent/Seller Profiles" page.
3. Find the profile you want to delete, and click the delete link which is at the far right
side.
3.1.1.7.8 Publishing/unpublishing profiles
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual profiles:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Profiles" icon, and this will
open the "Profile Manager" page
2. Once the "Profile Manager" page opens, - click on the "publish/unpublish" button
graphic to the right of the profile, or click the checkbox to the left of the profile and

then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top right hand corner of your
screen.
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple profiles:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Profiles" icon, and this will
open the "Profile Manager" page
2. Once the "Profile Manager" page opens, - review the profiles and decide which ones
you want to publish or unpublish, and then click the checkbox to the left of the profiles
- then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top right hand corner of your
screen.
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all profiles:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Manage Profiles" icon.
2. This will open the "Profile Manager" page.
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar at the very left of this header
strip. This will auto-select all checkboxes for every profile on the page.
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the profiles.
3.1.1.8 VIP Buyers register
The "VIP Buyer's Manager" is where you can record the property requirements of
prospective buyers, and visitors to your web site can also submit their details via a front-
end form. This information is stored in the database, and you're able to match property
listings to these entries based on key data - and notify those VIP Buyers via email. This
can be done in one of two ways - depending on how you've got your site configured. If
you have real-time VIP notifications enabled - then each time a property listing is saved -
it triggers the VIP matching function and sends out emails to prospective buyers - or you
can configure EZ Realty to just use the press-button feature in the EZ Realty admin
cPanel to run the notification emails manually.
3.1.1.8.1 Overview of the VIP buyers register screen
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select VIP Buyers
for various functions. You can select individually by clicking a checkbox one
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ID#:-
The ID number associated with the VIP Buyer.
Name:-
The contact name provided by the VIP Buyer.
Email address:-
The email address provided by the VIP Buyer. This is the email address that will be
used by the mail out function when notifications of suitable properties are matched
to their stated requirements.
Mobile phone #:-
The mobile phone number you can contact VIP Buyers on if they've provided this -
just in case you want to do a follow-up sales call.
Desired location:-
The location the VIP Buyer is wanting to buy a property in.
Bedrooms:-
The minimum number of bedrooms wanted by the VIP Buyer.
Bathrooms:-
The minimum number of bathrooms wanted by the VIP Buyer.
Add/review date:-
This is the date the VIP Buyer was added to the database, or the last date
that some type of action was taken with the record.
Wanted page:-
Indicates whether or not the VIP Buyer would like the details of the
property they want published on the front-end "wanted" page.
Published:-

Indicates whether or not the item has been published on the front-end
"wanted" page.
Lead status:-
Indicates the pending action to be taken with the VIP Buyer entry - for
example if you've passed on the information to an employee for personal
follow-up.
Publish button:-
If using this "publish" button, you must first select a VIP Buyer by clicking
the selector checkbox - or you can do a bulk publish by clicking the top
checkbox beside the "ID" column title. Clicking this one will select all items
on the page for publishing.
Unpublish button:-
Either select an individual VIP Buyer by marking the checkbox then clicking
the "unpublish" button, or click the top selector box next to the "ID"
New button:-
To create a new VIP Buyer entry, click the "New" button.
Edit button:-
This is the "Edit" VIP Buyer button - simply select the VIP Buyer to be
edited by clicking the selector checkbox beside the ID#, and then click the
"Edit" button. Or - simply click on the VIP Buyer name - it's hyperlinked and
will take you to the "edit" page.
Delete button:-
The "Delete" button will allow you to delete the VIP Buyers that have been
selected by clicking on the selector checkbox. You can delete these
individually or you can delete multiple ones at the one time.
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3.1.1.8.2 Overview of the add/edit buyers register screen

Name:-
This is where the VIP Buyer's name goes.
Home phone:-
This is where the VIP Buyer's home phone number goes.
Work phone:-
This is where the VIP Buyer's work phone number goes.
Mobile phone:-
This is where the VIP Buyer's mobile phone number goes.
Fax:-
This is where the VIP Buyer's fax number goes.
Email:-
This is where the VIP Buyer's contact email address goes. This email address is
used by the mail out function when sending notifications of listings that match the
VIP Buyer's specifications.
Listing type:-
This is the listing type the VIP Buyer wants - eg. for sale, for rent etc.
Property type:-
This is the property type that the VIP Buyer wants - eg. house, apartment, vacant
land etc.
Maximum purchase budget:-
This is the maximum purchase budget that the VIP Buyer has available.
Country:-
This is the country that the VIP Buyer wants to purchase in.

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State/regional area:-
This is the state/regional area of the country that the VIP Buyer want to
purchase in.
City/town/suburb:-
This is the locality that the VIP Buyer wants to purchase the property in.
Bedrooms:-
This is the minimum number of bedrooms that the VIP Buyer wants a
property to have.
Bathrooms:-
This is the minimum number of bathrooms that the VIP Buyer wants a
property to have.
Where did you find us:-
This just gives the web site owner to get an idea of where their site
visitors are coming from, which may help their marketing activities.
Comments:-
The VIP Buyer is able to provide some comments/feedback/more

information using this field.
Show property details on front-end wanted page:-
VIP Buyers have the option to have their property wanted details published
on the front-end of the site, and if they do want this to happen - they can
select yes using this field.
Receive HTML email format:-
This field is for future development use, so all VIP Buyer entries via the
front-end are currently automatically assigned to receive HTML email
formats.
Publish property listing:-
Before a VIP Buyer's wanted details are shown on the front-end of the site
- they must be published via this setting.

Lead status:-
You can set a "status" using this selector - to indicate where you are up
to with the VIP Buyer in relation to any follow-up discussions you may be
having with them.
Admin notes:-
You can keep notes of your follow-up discussions and activities that may
have been delegated to others using this field.
Send SMS:-
If your VIP Buyers have provided their mobile phone number in international
format - you can send them an SMS message via this page. Before using
the SMS form though - you must enable SMS functionality in the EZ Realty
configuration area - and you must enter your SMS account details so the
system can connect to your account.
3.1.1.8.3 Add/edit VIP Buyer
Adding a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "VIP Buyers Register" icon.
2. This will open the "Manage VIP Buyers Register" page, and once there - click on the
3. When the next screen opens - fill in the various fields for contact details, property
details and the other miscellaneous details.
Editing a record:-
2. This will open the "Manage VIP Buyers Register" page, and once there - click on the
hyperlinked buyer name you want to edit - or click the checkbox next to the buyer's
ID# you want to edit and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right hand corner of
your screen.
3. When the next screen opens - update the VIP Buyer contact details, property details
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3.1.1.8.4 Removing a VIP Buyer
2. This will open the "Manage VIP Buyers Register" page.
3. Find the buyer you want to delete, and select the checkbox to the left of the buyer's
ID#.
4. Select the checkbox to the left of each buyer ID# you want to delete.
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the title "ID#". This will
auto-select all checkboxes for every buyer listed on the page output.
4. Click the delete button up in the top right hand corner of the screen and all buyers will
be deleted.
3.1.1.8.5 Publishing/unpublishing VIP Buyer
Method 1 - publishing/unpublishing individual buyers:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "VIP Buyers Register" icon, and this
will open the "Manage VIP Buyers Register" page
2. Once the "Manage VIP Buyers Register" page opens, - click on the "publish/unpublish"
button graphic for the entry towards the right side of the screen, or click the checkbox
to the left of the buyer and then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top
Method 2 - publishing/unpublishing multiple buyers:-

1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "VIP Buyers Register" icon, and this
will open the "Manage VIP Buyers Register" page
2. Once the "Manage VIP Buyers Register" page opens, - review the buyers and decide
the ID# - then click on the publish or unpublish button up in the top right hand corner
of your screen.
Method 3 - publishing/unpublishing all buyers:-
3. Select the checkbox in the column headings title bar next to the ID# column. This will
auto-select all checkboxes for every buyer on the page.
depending on whether you need to publish or unpublish the buyers.
3.1.1.9 Static content manager
The static content manager is where you edit content that doesn't change in EZ Realty -
eg. the opening page welcome, the terms of listing on your site, the transaction
successful or transaction canceled messages etc.
Static content items are created during the installation process - or when you upgrade
your site from an older version that didn't use this. You're only able to edit the items - as
they're coded into specific areas of EZ Realty. You're not able to create new items, as
that is what the core Mambo/Joomla content manager is for.
3.1.1.9.1 Overview of the static content manager screen
Selector checkbox:-
This column contains the checkboxes that allow you to select a static
content item for editing.
Content item name column:-

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This is the "Content Item" name column - all static content used by EZ
Realty is listed here. You're able to click on the content item names in
order to edit them, as these are hyperlinked names.
Edit button:-
This is the "Edit" content item button - simply select the content item to
be edited by clicking the selector checkbox beside the item name, and
then click the "Edit" button. Or - simply click on the content item name -
it's hyperlinked and will take you to the "edit" page.
cPanel button:-
3.1.1.9.2 Overview of the edit static content screen
Save button:-
When you make changes to a static content item - clicking on the "Save"
button will save the changes to the database, and return you to the main
static content listing page.
Close button:-
Should you decide not to continue with the changes you made to the
static content - click the "Close" button. Don't simply use the browser's
back button - exit out of this screen correctly by using the "Close" button.
When editing a static content item, that item is "checked out" so others
cannot edit it at the same time. Then when you "save" or "close" an action
- the item is checked back in, and it's once again available for editing by
others.

Static content description:-
You can enter the information here for the specific static content item.
For example - in the business introduction you may want to include an
introduction to your business listings, maybe a graphic of some sort - it's
up to your and what you feel looks good and provides visitors with suitable
information.
3.1.1.9.3 Editing the static content
Editing a record:-
1. Starting from the EZ Realty admin cPanel, click the "Static Content" icon.
2. This will open the "Manage Static Content" page, and once there - click on the
hyperlinked content item name, or click the checkbox to the left of the content item
name and then click the "Edit" button up in the top right-hand corner of the page.
3. When the next screen opens - edit the content to include what you want presented to
your front-end visitors and members.
3.1.1.9.4 Masking static content output
Removing content from page output
The static content items are hard-coded into the component output, so if you don't want
certain content to be displayed - eg. you don't want a "business introduction" - then just
delete the content in the text editor area and click the save button. While the value will
still be called by the component - nothing will be displayed, and this will have the same
visual effect.
3.1.1.10 Configuration settings
The "Configuration Settings" manager is where you set a number of properties that
influence how your EZ Realty installation works, as well as how certain things display.
It is important that you go right through the configuration area carefully after first
installing EZ Realty - as well as after you've done an upgrade - because there are often
new configuration settings when new versions are released.
Settings are controlled by a variety of form elements - text fields, selector lists, and
check boxes, and all settings are accompanied by an explanation of their role in EZ Realty
as well as how the settings will affect your site. Take the time to read these
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3.1.1.10.1 Overview of the configuration settings
Your Business Settings
Business Name
The name of your real estate business shown on the component header and elsewhere,
eg. the print page and email pages.
Business Address
Your business address. This appears in the header of the print page so prospective buyers
have a record of you.
Contact telephone
Your contact telephone number shown on the arrange viewing form and the print page.
Email address
Email address to use with the property inspection and mailing list request forms.
Thumbnailing & Image Sizes
Thumbnail creator

Choose image processor for thumbnail creation. EZ Realty has 2 image processors
available - GD and GD2. If your server doesn't have these available - select none.
Thumbnail max width

Width of the property image thumbnails created which will then be used on the front-end.
This influences the width of thumbnails on the full details page, the various listings pages
and in the modules.
Thumbnail Quality
Quality of the thumbnails created. This must be expressed as a percentage. This setting
will also affect the quality of the main image once it's uploaded and resized, and this is to
allow you to achieve smaller image file sizes.
Image Directory
The default image directory is called 'ezrealty', and it's located in the components/
com_ezrealty/ezrealty path. Thumbnails are stored in a directory within this one, called
th. If you change your directory name, you'll need to create a new directory_name/th
directory path manually. You MUST NOT change the name of the th directory. The other
really important thing is you MUST move the placeholder images into these new
directories.
Category Thumbnail Width

Width of images if using category images.
Main Image Width
Width of main property image when viewed on the property details page output. It's
expressed in pixels to assist fitting the image within your template. Images will be resized
to this width
Main Image height

Height of main property image when viewed on the property details page output. It's
expressed in pixels to assist fitting the image within your template. Images will be resized
to this width
Maximum allowed image width

Images are resized during the upload process, so this setting will determine what the
maximum width of the main image will be in pixels.

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Maximumallowed image height
Images are resized during the upload process, so this setting will determine what the
maximum height of the main image will be in pixels.
Use image watermarks

Do you want to use watermarking on your images. Watermarks currently include a sold
graphic for sold listings, and a WOW graphic for featured listings.
Image system
There are a number of systems available for special effects with images - and their files
are called into the system plugin. Sometimes they conflict with templates or other addons
which will cause their special effects to break. Choose which is right for you or turn them
off completely. As a matter of interest - the slimbox image system uses the mootools
files, and this system now tends to have the fewest interactions with other special
effects features in templates - so if you're wanting the popup images with the darkened
background - try the slimbox image system first.
***One important thing to keep in mind - if you turn off the special effects image
system - you will need to use the javascript popup images or plain thumbnails in
your modules, and select one of the javascript image slideshows for your full
details page template layout.
Your Video Settings
Allow media files and tours

You can allow externally hosted FLV files to be embedded in the page output, allow URL's
to virtual tours that will show as hyperlinks that open in a new page, or you can allow
embedded media code such as that used by Youtube and Seyret.
Display Width
The display width of embedded media files. The width you define will depend on its
position in the template, and your template width. You only have control over FLV files
embedded using the built-in FLV player. You DO NOT have control over the size of
embedded media code such as Youtube or Seyret.
Display Height
The display height of embedded media files. The height you define will depend on its
position in the template, and your template dimensions. You only have control over FLV
files embedded using the built-in FLV player. You DO NOT have control over the size of

embedded media code such as Youtube or Seyret.
PHP.INI Memory Over-ride Settings
Over-ride php.ini memory

Some servers run out of memory when uploading and resizing/thumbnailing images, so you
can over-ride the php.ini memory settings temporarily during the image upload process.
Temporary memory size

This setting allow you to specify how much memory in megabytes to temporarily allocate?
If you are receiving memory errors when saving property listings - start with 20 and
gradually increase until the error is resolved. ***USE NUMBERS ONLY***
Manage your site's profile settings
Show Profile
If running in 'Display Mode' - do you want to display member profile details on the full
details page of the listing? If setting this to 'NO' this will also turn off all access to front-
end profiles, although people who create listings will still be required to create a profile.
Auto-approve Profile
Do you want member profiles to be automatically approved when they're created?
Profile Access
Specify who should be able to view details of a seller's profile. REMEMBER - you MUST
NOT restrict access above registered member level - otherwise people will not be able to
contact the seller. For the majority of sites - public access should work well.
Profile image width

Maximum allowed width of the profile image. Keep in mind that this is the width that will
be displayed on the front-end profile page. Images that exceed this width will be rejected
during the upload process.
Profile image height

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be displayed on the front-end profile page. Images that exceed this height will be rejected
during the upload process.
Logo Width
Maximum allowed width of the logo image associated with a seller. Keep in mind that this
is the width that will be displayed on the front-end profile page and property listings
pages. Images that exceed this width will be rejected during the upload process. A good
width is 160 pixels.
Logo Height
Maximum allowed height of the logo image associated with a seller. Keep in mind that this
is the width that will be displayed on the front-end profile page and property listings
pages. Images that exceed this height will be rejected during the upload process. A good
height is 30 pixels.
Page topper width

Size in pixels that the page topper graphic will be resized to. This graphic appears above
the page that displays the agents listings.
Page topper height

Size in pixels that the page topper graphic will be resized to. This graphic appears above
the page that displays the agents listings.
Your Clickatell Details
Enable SMS
Do you want to display the SMS contact link/form to enable SMS messaging via the site's
front-end? If Clickatell doesn't service your part of the world - set this to NO.
Mobile phone #
This will be used for the SMS contact form if you don't allow site members to list, or if you
also list properties. It MUST be in the international number format:- Country Code,
Network prefix without the leading '0' and Number - no spaces, only numerals. If you
DON'T want to use SMS contacts for your own listings - leave these details blank.
Username

This must be your Clickatell Central API account username.
Password
This must be your Clickatell Central API account password
HTTP API ID#
This must be your Clickatell Central API account HTTP API ID#. Create your API ID# via
your Clickatell control panel.
Mapping Settings
Use Mapping
Do you want to display a map of where the agent/seller and their property listing is
located?
Map API
You MUST apply for a Mapping service API number for your site, then add it here if using
the mapping. You can apply for an API number here:- http://code.google.com/apis/maps/
index.html
Map Width
The width of the map on your site's front-end expressed in pixels.
Map Height
The height of the map on your site's front-end expressed in pixels.
Map Overlay
Select the default map overlay type you want to use.
Launch Coordinates Finder hyperlink

Clicking on this hyperlink will open up a popup clickable map. You can click on the map to
find out the decimal coordinates you want to use as the starting point for the popup map
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DecimalLatitude
The starter latitude of the popup map when it first opens. This setting does not affect
the property or profile maps because they use their own coordinates.
Decimal Longitude
The starter longitude of the popup map when it first opens. This setting does not affect
the property or profile maps because they use their own coordinates.
Mapping Resolution
The map resolution determines the zoom level of the maps used on EZ Realty. The smaller
the number - the closer the view, and the bigger the number - the further away the view.
Define your various Expiration Management settings
Use Expiration Management

Do you want to use the expiration management system. This allows you to limit how long
listings are displayed for based on time.
Time in Days
If using 'Time-based' expiration management, specify how many days listings should be
displayed for.
Grace Period
If using 'Time-based' listings, specify a grace period in days. This is the amount of time
between when a listing is discontinued, and when it can be cleaned from the database.
During this period, listings can be renewed.
Shortlist (lightbox) Expirary Time

This is the shortlist favorites system that members can use to save listings for later
review. How many days should lightbox items remain in the database. After this they can
be pruned using the prune function.
Manage the front-end layout of your site

Tab 7 in the EZ Realty configuration area is where you define settings that affect your
site's layout.
Select opening page style

You can choose to have EZ Realty open with a list of property categories - or the main
EZ Realty page can open with a search function and list of popular locations.
Number of popular localities

If using the combination layout for the first EZ Realty page, how many localities do you
want to display on this page?
Combination layout column count

If using the combination layout for the first EZ Realty page, how many columns do you
want to have to display the popular localities?
Combination layout column width

How wide should the combination page layout columns be? For example - if you have 2
columns, the width must be 50%. Be sure to include the percent sign.
Front-end Template
Select the layout you want for the front-end. This currently influences the look of the
property details page and print details page.
Image layout/system
You can now configure the image layout and system you want to use, which makes your
full details page templates more configurable for your site template width.
Listings Page Template

There are now different layouts available for the listings pages - ie. category contents,
new listings, search results, featured listings, model contents pages.
Column count
How many columns do you want the first category listing page layout to have?

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Columnwidth
How wide are the columns on the first category listing page? For example, if you have 1
column, the width should be 100%, if you have 2 columns the width should be 50%, and if
you have 3 columns the width should be 33%. You MUST include the percent sign.
Rollover Colour 1
This is the colour cells will change to when hovering your mouse over an item in the list of
properties.
Rollover Colour 2
This is the colour cells will return to after mousing off the cell. For best results - this
should be the colour of your page background.
Text box width

The width of the larger text boxes in the front-end add/edit property details form. This
width helps to reduce template distortion.
Text area width

The width of the text areas in the front-end add/edit property details form. This width
helps to reduce template distortion.
Text alignment
Define whether your text alignment should be 'left to right' or 'right to left'.
Properties per Page

Number of properties to show per page on the front-end
Special property listing pages

Number of properties to list on the 'New Listings', 'Open House Listings', 'Properties
Wanted' and 'RSS feed' page
Default page order

This is the general ordering of properties on the frontend pages.

LocalityList Order
Select which order to display the dropdown locality lists.
State List Order

Select which order to display the dropdown state lists.
Country List order

Select which order to display the dropdown country lists.
Date format
Select the date format for page display. This affects the open house date, auction date
and the availability date
Use plugin parsing

Do you want to use plugin parsing? In most cases this should be turned on as it will
enable email cloaking - BUT - some addons cause conflicts that result in server 500 errors
on the frontend of EZ Realty. If you receive server errors on the full details page or
listings pages - turn plugin parsing to OFF.
Data Types for Listings
Business Information
This will enable/disable all fields associated with business listings info
Rural Information
This will enable/disable all fields associated with rural listings info
Meta Tags
This will enable/disable all fields associated with meta tags
Custom Specifications
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GeneralResidential Info
This will enable/disable all non-essential fields associated with general residential info
Land and Building Info

This will enable/disable all fields associated with miscellaneous land and building info
Select which address variables to use when entering property

information
States and Localities

Define how to enter states and localities info for your property addresses. Some very
small places may not require either states or localities, some may require only localities,
and country-wide listings may require both states and localities to be entered for property
addresses.
Use Countries
If you do not want to use countries in your real estate listings and the leads registration
form, set this to 'NO' to hide this variable.
Use Zip/Postcode
Do you want to use the postcode when managing and displaying your property addresses?
Select which choices to use in the Market Status List
You can select whether or not to use the market status list when creating your property
listings, and you can select which items to use in this dropdown selector list. This will
affect what is displayed in the add/edit property listings page, as well as the search filter
selector list.
Select which choices to use in the Property Type List
You can select which listing types to use in the selector list - eg. for sale, rent, auction
etc. There are 6 common listing types for you to choose from.
Select which choices to use in the Rental Frequency List

You can select whether or not to use the rental frequency list, and which items to use.
This will enable you to turn this field off if you don't list rental/lease type properties, and
if you do - it will allow you to specify the frequency types you want to use.
Manage your search filter settings
Use Listing Type

Do you want to use the listing types dropdown list in the main search filter?
Use Property Category

Do you want to use the property categories list in the main search filter?
Use States and Localities

Do you want to display the chained states and localities in the main search filter?
Use Country
Do you want to display countries in the main search filter?
Use Price Range

Do you want to use the 2 price range lists in the main search filter?
Use Bedrooms
Do you want to use the 2 bedroom lists in the main search filter?
Use Bathrooms
Do you want to use the bathrooms select list in the main search filter
Use square feet

Do you want to use the min/max square feet search filter lists? Remember this and the
associated data field can be renamed in the language file to some other unit of measure.
Use Market Status

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Do you want to use the market status list in the main search filter?
Use Pets Allowed

Do you want to use the 'pets allowed' yes/no select list on the search filter?
Use Lock-up Garage
Do you want to use the 'lock-up garage' yes/no select list on the search filter?
Use featured listings

Do you want to allow people to search for properties based on featured listing status?
Use custom 4 data field

Do you want to use the custom 4 data field in your search filter. Remember to rename this
field name in the language file to something meaningful.




Use postcode radius

Do you want to use the zip/postcode search radius field? This feature allows you to

search for properties within a certain distance of a zip/postcode. In order to make it work
though - you also need to populate the reference database with zip/postcodes for your
particular area or country, and there are a number of CSV/SQL files for different countries
available for download from the support site's downloads area.
Unit of measure
Define the unit of measure you want to use for the search radius - as some countries use
kilometers and others use miles. Smaller countries may consist of various islands, and if
they use zip/postcodes - they may also need to use nautical miles for their unit of
measure.
Manage the Top EZ Realty Menu Links
Use Top Menu Links

Do you want to use the top EZ Realty menu links? Setting this to 'no' will completely hide
the top menu link.
Open House Link

Do you want to show the 'Open House Listings' link?
New Listings Link

Do you want to show the new listings link on the front-end EZ Realty header?
VIP Buyer's Link

Would you like to allow visitors to register their property requirements with you on the VIP
Buyer's system? Your choice for this setting will also influence whether or not the link for
removing details from the VIP Buyer's system is shown.
Use Featured Listings Link

Do you want to use the top featured listings link?
Agent/Seller's Link
Do you want to use the top agent/seller's link?

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Use Members Link
Do you want to use the top link that goes into the member's listings management area?
Use Search Filter Link

Do you want to use the top search filter link?
Sold Properties link

Do you want to show a link to a page listing sold properties?
Manage Customer Tools Links
Use Tools Links

Do you want to display the box of tools links for site visitors?
Recommend Property Link

Do you want to allow visitors to use the "recommend property to friend" feature?
Email Seller Link

Do you want to show the "email seller" contact link on the full property details page?
Add to Mailing List Link
Do you want to show the "add to mailing list" email box? This allows visitors to send you
an automatic email and you then add the contained details to your mailing list manager.
Use Local Demographics Link

Do you want to display the popup locality demographics link? This will only work if you've
entered some information into the locality description.
Use Add to Favorites Link

Do you want to display the add to favorites bookmark link?
View School Profile

Do you want to let your members display the View School Profile link? This only works with
US properties.
View Neighborhood Profile

Do you want to let your members display the View Neighborhood Profile link? This only
works with US properties.
Manage Miscellaneous Links
New RSS Feed Link

Do you want to display the RSS new listings link and make the feed available?
New RSS Listings Feed name

What would you like to call your new listings RSS feed?
OpenHouse RSS Feed Link

Do you want to display the RSS open house listings link and make the feed available?
OpenHouse RSS Feed Name

What would you like to call your openhouse listings RSS feed?
Back button
Do you want to display the back button on the footer of the page?
Short List
Do you want to use the 'short listing' feature? This does require registered members to be
logged in to be able to use it, so if you don't provide this access - set this feature to
'NO'.
Define the notifications that you want
Listings Notification

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Would you like to be notified of new and updated listings?
VIP Buyer's Notification

If you are using the VIP Buyer's system (formerly called the Leads Manager), do you want
to be notified via email of new VIP buyers who register for email alerts of your property
listings?
Realtime VIP Notifications

Do you want to use realtime VIP notifications? This will run a query each time a listing is
saved to search for VIP buyers that match that property specifications, and it will then
send an email to those people. ***SPECIAL NOTE*** If you have a lot of VIP Buyers
registered - this could slow down your site significantly!! The alternative is to turn this
setting off and to use the 'Send VIP Buyer Email Notifications' button in the admin area
periodically during low traffic times on your site.
Profile Notification
Do you want to be notified of new and updated seller profiles done via the frontend? You
will not receive notifications about any new or modified profiles handled via the admin area
though.
Cross-component Integration Links
Letterman Integration
Do you want to save newsletter requests directly to the letterman subscriber database
table?
Private Messaging Integration

EZ Realty will support 2 private messaging systems - myPMS II or uddeIM - so buyers can
easily contact sellers via these internal messaging systems on your site. You need to
enable this setting if you'd like to use private messaging, have one of these components
installed on your site and EZ Realty will detect its presence.
jReviews Integration
If you use the jReviews commenting system, you can enable EZ Realty to tap into this
system so that people can comment on listings and seller profiles. You must remember to
upload the necessary jReviews everywhere files as per the jReviews instructions on the
everywhere system.

Define the Admin Area property listing filters to use
ID Filter
Do you want to use the ID Filter on the admin area property listings page? If you have a
lot of listings you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
MLS ID Number Filter
Do you want to use the MLS ID number filter on the admin area property listings page? If
you have a lot of listings you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Office ID Number Filter

Do you want to use the Office ID number filter on the admin area property listings page?
If you have a lot of listings you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Category Filter
Do you want to use the Category filter on the admin area property listings page? If you
have a lot of listings you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Listing Type Filter

Do you want to use the Listing type filter on the admin area property listings page? If you
Street Name Filter
Do you want to use the Street name filter on the admin area property listings page? If
you have a lot of listings you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Locality Filter
Do you want to use the Locality filter on the admin area property listings page? If you
State Filter
Do you want to use the State filter on the admin area property listings page? If you have
a lot of listings you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Country Filter

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Do you want to use the Country filter on the admin area property listings page? If you
Seller Filter
Do you want to use the Seller filter on the admin area property listings page? If you have
a lot of listings you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Define the Admin Area profile listings information to show
Show Property Listings Count

Do you want to show the property listings count on the admin area profile listings page? If
you have a lot of members you may want to turn this off to decrease database queries
and increase page loading speed.
Show Seller Avatar/Image

Do you want to show the seller's avatar/image on the admin area profile listings page? If
you have a lot of members you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Show Seller Logo

Do you want to show the seller's business logo on the admin area profile listings page? If
you have a lot of members you may want to turn this off to increase page loading speed.
Widgets and Plugins
Social Bookmarking
If you have uploaded the social bookmarking plugin to the plugins directory, do you want
to show the social bookmarking icons at the start of your full property details page and
profile details page? You can download the plugin from the support site downloads area.
Manage Front-end Property Listings by Registered Members
Member Listings
Would you like to allow registered site members to list properties for sale via the front-end
listings panel?

ApprovalProcess
Do new and updated listings require admin approval before publishing?
Number of listings
How many listings can members have?
Free Listing Images

If you have free and paid listings for your members, do you want free listings to be able to
show an image? If you select 'NO' just a placeholder will be displayed, which may
encourage more paid listings. If you select 'YES' - free listings will only be able to have
one image. This will not affect listings if you're ONLY running in free listings mode -
members can have 12 images when run in this mode.
Front-end Additions
Do you want to allow site members access to add new localities, states and countries
themselves. When allowing this - these localities, states and countries will be
automatically published to allow access when creating their property listing.
Change Listing Images

Do you want to allow site members the ability to change the images in a listing once
they've been uploaded? Setting this to 'no' will prevent changes to the images only. Some
members may find this inconvenient if they don't like their initial image order.
Manage Currency Settings for Property Listings
Currency control
You can run EZ Realty with a single default currency type for listings, or you can allow
members to define their own regional currency on a per listing basis.
Currency code
The 3-letter currency code of your property listings - eg. USD, AUD, GBP - the same way
of defining currency codes for PayPal. This code is used for some external feeds for
property listing sites.
Currency Sign

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The currency sign to show before or after property prices.
Currency Position
You may define whether to display the currency sign before or after the price.
Currency Format
You may define which currency format to display property prices in.
Manage Currency Settings for Members Area and Payment

Processor Button Code
Currency Sign
The currency sign to show before or after the cost of paid listing prices.
Currency Code
This must be the 3-letter PayPal currency code for your PRIMARY PayPal currency - not
one your make up. If you're unsure of these currency codes, refer to PayPal to be sure of
what to use.
Currency Position
You may define whether to display the currency sign before or after the paid listing price.
Your PayPal Settings for Offering Paid Listings
Paid Listings
This is a checkbox value to allow you to specify whether or not you want to offer paid
listings on your site. If you leave the checkbox blank - that means you don't want to
offer paid listings and all listings by members will be on a free basis.
Payment Choices
If offering paid listings - do you want to offer FREE listings with the option to upgrade -
OR ONLY paid listings.
Select your payment system

EZ Realty currently supports 2 ways to handle payments for paid upgrades. The PayPal
system will allow you to handle these automatically via a built-in IPN script, or if PayPal
isn't available to you - you can do this manually by linking listings to a page that explains
how they must go about paying you.
Paid Listing Level 1 Cost

The cost of upgrading a free property listing to a "premium" listing.
Paid Listing Level 2 Cost

The cost of purchasing/upgrading a listing to "featured" status
3.1.2 Maintenance Tools

The maintenance tools are press-button functions concerned with "housekeeping"
activities to keep your site squeaky clean. They're designed to perform queries on the
various EZ Realty tables - to clean them of old unneeded data that may be taking up
room.
3.1.2.1 Sync members, profiles and properties
Pressing the "Sync members, profiles and properties" button connects to a function that
copies member details from the core Joomla users table into the EZ Realty profiles table.
It only copies the details of members who don't already have a profile created, and it only
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profiles - it also cleans out old profiles which no longer have member accounts, as well as
cleaning out their property listings. Associated images and uploaded documents are also
cleaned off the server at this time.
EZ Realty will also automatically create basic member profile information the first time
they enter the front-end EZ Panel, which allows members to get right on with listing
properties on your site.
3.1.2.2 Clean listings
Once a listing has expired and is no longer needed - you want an easy way to get
rid of them, and the clean listings button is an easy and quick way to do this. If
you have expiry management turned on - you have 2 ways to manage listings -
based on page impressions or based on time. If running based on impressions,
once listings reach the predefined limit - they'll be cleaned out when the clean
listings button is pressed. If running the site based on time-based listings, expired
listings that have passed the "grace period" will be cleaned out.
3.1.2.3 Prune shortlist
The shortlist is where members save details of their favorite listings that they want to
review at a later date. With time, this database table can accumulate a significant
number of records. As part of the EZ Realty configuration process - you were able to
specify a "Lightbox expiry time" in days - and this setting was on the "Expiration tab".
Pressing the "Prune shortlist" button will clean the shortlist of database entries that have
been there longer than the time specified in the configuration area.
3.1.2.4 Manage orphan uploads
EZ Realty has always had a heavy use of image uploads for property listings, and early
versions were not always efficient in the deletion of these images once a property listing
was deleted. A lot of work has gone into writing new functions to delete images and
other file uploads when a property listing is deleted or cleaned from the system, as well as
when a profile is deleted or cleaned from the system. However, it is also necessary to
have a way to identify and enable the deletion of orphan file uploads that have been left
on the server from the early days.
The orphan file manager has 4 management areas - the main property image directory,
thumbnail directory, PDF uploads directory and the profiles directory.
You can review the files in each of these areas, and files that do not have an associated
property or profile listing in the database will have a delete link visible - which will enable
you to delete the file from your server without having to go looking for it.

The main property orphan image manager will also delete the associated thumbnail.
3.1.2.5 Send Listing Expired Email Alert
When pressed - the function triggered by this button will send an email alerting
members who have property listings that have expired. These expired listings must
still fall within the "grace period" - which is the timeframe after expiry when a
listing can still be renewed.
Limits on this function:- only usable when the site is run in time-based expiration
management.
3.1.2.6 Send VIP Buyer Notifications
When pressed - the function triggered by this button will send an email to site
visitors who have registered on your VIP Buyers Register if there is a property in
the database matching their stated requirements.
The VIP Buyer notifications system works on the assumption that people have
searched the database and have already seen available properties. So part of the
VIP Buyer notifications function is to add a checkmail value to the database for
each property listing that has been processed - so people listed on the leads
system don't receive multiple notifications for the same property parameters.
Once a checkmail value has been added to a property listing - it won't be
processed by the VIP Buyers notifications system again.
3.1.2.7 Send Listings Report to Sellers
Depending on the site you're running - you may want to send out reports to your site
members. Pressing this button will run a series of database queries to send out HTML
formatted emails to members with seller profiles. The email will contain a list of properties
the member has listed on your site, and a bit of information about those listings.
3.1.2.8 Optimize tables
EZ Realty has a number of tables, and these are used frequently due to the
nature of a real estate site. Tables that get a lot of use build up overhead over
time, and this can slow down the system. You can press the "optimize tables"
button and this will clean out the overhead and improve speed.
3.1.2.9 Upgrade database
Version 5.2.0 was a medium-large upgrade, and there were new tables and a lot
of new fields. You'll have to press the upgrade database button if you've upgraded
- in order to create the new tables and fields that you need.
Following on from that - version 5.3.0 has also introduced changes to the
database tables with a number of new fields - so the upgrade database button
must be pressed if you're doing an upgrade.
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3.1.3.1 The Checks tab
The "Checks" tab is designed to pick up and report common oversights to users
before those oversights lead to problems with site functionality. Part of the
checks process is to run a number of database queries to review what you've got
installed on your site, the data you've got inserted into various tables and to
report that visually to the user. The other part of the process is to look for the
presence of certain files and settings used by other components - so that you can
be alerted if you've mistakenly enabled certain features without the necessary
components to support those features.
It's hoped users will find this to be a helpful mechanism when installing and
configuring their site.
3.1.3.2 Imports
The "Imports" tab contains a an upload function that allows you to upload zip/postcodes
to the database for use by the zip/postcode radius search function.
Things to remember:-
1. make sure you have the following columns of data in this exact order:- id, postcode,
city, state, county, latitude, longitude.
2. It is not necessary to have data in every column - BUT - you must have data in the
postcode, latitude and longitude columns. The others can be left empty.
3. make sure you do not have any column titles in the first row of data.
4. Use a CSV comma delimited file
You'll find various zip/postcode packages available for download from the support site
downloads manager. If your country's zip/postcodes aren't there - do a google search, as
you'll often find them available for download free somewhere on the web.
3.2 The Frontend public areas
3.2.1 Home page

EZ Realty comes with the choice of 3 home page layouts - the first shown below is the
combination page layout, which consists of a search function, mls/id search box and a top
property locations list. The combination page layout makes for an interesting starter page
- and can be modified with your own image should you prefer to use something different.

There is also the standard category layout available, and you can choose to display it in a
multi-column output such as displayed below - or you can display it in a single column
with an associated image and category description.
Finally - there is use of the main search filter as the opening page for EZ Realty:-

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Above each - you'll see the top set of EZ Realty menu links - and these lead you to
various areas on the frontend of EZ Realty. Below - you'll see the RSS feed links/icons,
and the go back button. These are all configurable via the EZ Realty configuration area
should you wish to turn some of these off.
3.2.2 Listings pages

EZ Realty has a number of frontend listings page - eg. new listings, open house listings,
recent sales, featured listings etc. You'll notice the items listed on the page have
different coloured backgrounds. In this case - the pink listings are featured listings while
the white listings are normal listings. Featured listings also have a "WOW" watermark -
unless they're sold, in which case they'll have a "sold" graphic. You're able to change the
colours used by standard listings and featured listings by editing the style sheet used by
EZ Realty.
There are 4 different template layouts available for these pages, and they each have
different characteristics, different data, and different features. For example - this
particular template layout includes the seller's business logo - something which is not
included in every layout. Remember to test out the different layouts to see which suits
your site design and your preferences.

3.2.3 Find an Agent

The "find an agent" page is where site visitors can look through a list of all site members
who've created a seller profile, or they can use the quick search form at the end of the
page to find a seller based on locality and seller type. Each profile listed on these pages
links through to the profile details page - and from there - site visitors can progress
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3.2.4 View Profile page

The view profile page is accessed in one of three ways - via the link on a property listings
full details page, via the "find an agent" listing page, or via the agent search results page.
Your profile page contains a graphic header if you uploaded one, an image of you, a
graphic link to marketing material, your RapLeaf reputation link, your LinkedIn link,
personal/professional details such as address, contact details, web site details, a link to
your listings and a map of your location. You can choose not to display your address
details which will also result in no map being displayed, and while this may be desirable for
private owner/sellers - businesses may want their business address details publicly visible.
3.2.5 Virtual agency

The virtual agency page is a page containing only your property listings, and across the
top of the page your banner is displayed if you've uploaded one to your profile. The large
banner size is set in the EZ Realty admin configuration area, and the smaller business logo
shown on the page below is also set there.

3.2.6 VIP Buyers Register

The VIP Buyer's Register page on the frontend is where your site visitors can leave details
of properties they're interested in buying. It's a means for you to collect interested buyer
data - in case people cannot find a particular property they're wanting at the time they
visit your site.
This information is stored in the database, and you can manage it via the admin area VIP
Buyers Register - and send out emails of matching property requirements via the press of
a button.

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As you're collecting potential buyer data and sending out emails - you may need to
comply with antispamming laws - which in some countries require that an unsubscribe
facility be available. The VIP Buyer's Register has an unsubscribe function accessible via
the frontend, and the link is also included in emails that are sent out. People simply need
to insert the email address they're receiving the VIP notifications to - and they should be
successfully deleted from the database.

3.3 The EZ Realty Frontend user area

If you'll be allowing registered site members to list properties for sale on your site - this
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3.3.1 The EZ Panel
This is what the frontend EZ Panel looks like, and it's where your site members manage
their profile, shortlist and property listings. At the top you'll see the secondary top menu
system, with links to the main listings area, the EZ Panel link and the Terms of Listing link.
Below these links is where the members area introduction goes - it's managed via the EZ
Realty admin cPanel if you click on the static content manager button.
Now, depending on your site settings - you'll have a range of information listed after the
introduction - eg. how many free listings a person can have, the cost of paid listings, how
long listings are active for etc.

The next section shows 3 icons - the first leads to the members profile manager, and
that's where they define a range of information variables - depending on how much
information they want to share. The middle icon leads to a person's shortlist manager -
however this icon will not necessarily be displayed, as it depends on whether you're using
the shortlisting feature on your site. The 3rd icon is the Email Listings feature. This
allows site members to email themselves a report of the listings they have on your site -
just in case they want something to take to a meeting.
The following section contains the country, state and locality selector lists, and that's
there to allow site members to check for the presence of these values before adding their
listing information There is a link beneath each selector list, so members are able to add a
new country, state or locality if they need to. This section will not always be visible
though - it just depends on whether your site is configured to allow these frontend
additions, and not all of them will be displayed either - as that depends on whether your
site is configured to use all 3 address variables.
The next section of information contains your property listings, and the type of icons
displayed depends on how your listings are configured - and whether you are assigning
profile privileges to various members.
Across the bottom you'll see pagination - which was new in version 5.2.0. Previous
versions didn't have pagination in the EZ Panel - so this is good news for customers
running large numbers of listings.
Beneath the pagination you'll see the add new listing button. This button will be displayed
if you're running your site in free listings mode, free with paid upgrades mode, or if a
member has privileges to bypass the paid listings system.

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3.3.2 Manage profile settings

3.3.3 Manage shortlist area
3.3.4 Add/edit listing form

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Part III Overview and use of EZ Realty 20

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Overview of the .........................................................................................................................................

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1.1 Welcome to EZ Realty

1.2 EZ Realty features

Multiple Business Models

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Enabled for Payment plugins

Expiry Management System

Multiple currency support

Professional Image Presentation

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VIP Buyer's Register

Comes with Google mapping support built-in.

RSS 2.0 Feeds

Cross-browser "add to favourites" bookmarking function, recommend to friend email, print

Multiple ways to search

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1.3 System requirements

· Joomla! 1.5x content management system.

1.4 Getting help

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2 Installations and Upgrades

2.1 Joomla 1.5x system

Key EZ Realty component installation activities:-

1. Install the EZ Realty component and migrate the site members

Various EZ Realty Modules

1. Install the various modules

2.1.1 New EZ Realty Installation on Joomla 1.5x

Install the EZ Realty component according to the Joomla extensions installation

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2.1.2 EZ Realty upgrades on Joomla 1.5x

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2.1.3 New module installations on Joomla 1.5x

2.1.4 Module upgrades on Joomla 1.5x

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3 Overview and use of EZ Realty

3.1 The EZ Realty Admin cPanel

EZ Realty Admin Property Manager cPanel

System Management Areas:-

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3.1.1 System Management Areas

3.1.1.1 Property Manager

Before you add a property listing:-

3.1.1.1.1 Overview of the property manager screen

The ID number associated with the property listing.

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The image thumbnail in the number 1 position.

The property address.

This indicates whether or not the listing is published.

This is the seller associated with the property listing.

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