Keeping Your Website Current 

Section 17 of the NTREIS Rules and Regulations (http://www.ntreis.net/documents/MLSOnSite_1532007123651.pdf) specifies that an IDX data feed should only contain data on the Customer Full Report and Active Status.  Any listing that is no longer active (i.e. your website can display only the statues of ACT, OPT, CON, and KO) should be removed from your website.  RETS does not have a method to allows an IDX user to download the list of the data that should be removed.  This means the RETS users has to either download the entire database on every download or develop a somewhat complex method to remove the non-Active listings. 

As it is in the best interest of NTREIS and the RETS user to not have to download the entire database on every download, NTREIS is allowing the IDX user to have access to the listings that are no longer Active.  The data fields will remain the fields that are on the Customer Report.  After a download, the IDX RETS user has to only delete the non-active listings to ensure the data is in compliance.

IMPORTANT:

Only property listings that contain “OMWS” in the ”INTERNETLIST_ALL” / “Listings Will Appear On” field can be displayed on the Internet.

This field does not have a RETS Standard Name.  The table below lists the three variations of the name in the RETS Metadata:

Updated: 4/30/2008