CPD’s Mobile App provides Commercial Estate Agents with a searchable property database skinned to the specification of each subscribing company, therefore providing each subscribing Agent with their own branded App for their clients to download.
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Improved Search Results
We have improved the usability of our search results within both our ‘live’ and our archive databases.
Following a search you are presented with search results as previously, but now you can sort these results by any of the following: Agent, Size or Post Code – Just select from the top of the search results page.
When producing a report you can either add individual properties to the clipboard or select Add All To Clipboard and then you will be able to produce a report in either rtf (word) or Excel formats.
New SOAP/XML Services Released
FAO: Existing CPD XML feed users
We are pleased to announce that we have now released our new XML feed service.
The new service provides a much improved search facility, based around our unified property search engine. Please have your technical staff review the documentation for the new service, which can be found here:
http://www.cpd.co.uk/services/xmlsoap
With the new interface, your search facility can provide a much more varied range of search criteria, including as a radius from a geographical position. The search engine will return a much more varied set of data in the results than before. Additionally, the search engine can be instructed to return results in pagefuls, allowing a much faster, real-time service to be provided, with less client code.
The new XML service is now ready for production use. We are also still actively building extensions for it and preparing other services around it. To keep in touch with the latest developments, please ensure your technical staff are subscribed to our announcements service:
Please also feel free to report any problems or feature requests you may have directly to ‘support@cpd.co.uk’, so that we may meet our goal of providing you with the best commercial property search engine possible.
IMPORTANT! We will be discontinuing our old XML feed service at the end of December 2011. You must update your website to use the new service before this time. For reference, the URL for the deprecated service is:
http://webservices.cpd.co.uk/export/PropertyExportBean.jws?wsdl
Regards,
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The CPD Team
Service outage report
CPD apologise for any inconvenience caused over the last 72 hours. Our servers are based at a site in Ireland that was struck by lightning and that unfortunately caused a major power outage which has taken some time to fully resolve. During this period we quickly set up a secondary server in the USA which allowed us to get most of our client’s web sites up and running and enabled us to keep all our database facilities operating.
The biggest disruption was to clients to whom we supply email services, however, emails were fully operational again yesterday.
Again we apologise however the events that caused the problems were out of our control.
Mail server migration
We are in the process of moving our mailserver to a new hosting provider. There will be a small outage between midnight and 6am on Saturday morning 6th August, while we move the data across and test the new platform. Hopefully this should not affect anyone, but our sincerest apologies if it does.
New website
To reflect the fact that we are now in the process of making many changes and developments to bring our service up-to-date with the latest progresses in information technology, we are also releasing a new website that we hope is clearer and easier to use, and provides the right information for all our existing and potential clients. Enjoy!