New Developments

The new module in CyberAgent, caters for the loading and listing of new developments. It is used in the same way as all other modules in the program. Here is a breakdown of how to load a development:

To start capturing a new development click on the new button (the page button with a folded corner). The next button is the save button (icon of a disk), and the next is the button to delete a development (the red X). The drop down list next to the delete button allows you to select any developments you have captured quickly.

Specify the development name. Then select the agents by clicking on the “Active Agents” button. To select a single agent, click on the agent’s name, and click on the single arrow pointing to the right (>) (or double click on it). To select a few agents, click on one agent, then hold down the Ctrl button and then click on all other agents required, then click on the single arrow to the right once your selection is complete. To select all agents click on the double arrow pointing to the right (>>). To remove an agent (or multiple agents), follow the same procedures, but use the single arrow pointing to the left (<). To clear the selection, use the double arrow pointing to the left (<<). Once all the agents that work on the development are in the right hand column, click on the save button.

Select a country if needed, then select a province, city and suburb, or click on the binoculars next to suburb, and type in the name of the suburb, scroll down to find the location you want, and click on “Select & Close”. This will put in the province, city and suburb you selected in one go.

Then put in the address, select if this development is active (on the internet) or not, and select priority of the development in the “Website Display Order” (1 will list this development first in the list).

Then – if needed – add in more “Meta Keywords for search engines”. These are words, that when typed into a search engine, will link to your development. Suggestions are, the province, city, suburb, development name, agents names, your company name. These that are typed in should all be lower case and must be separated by commas.

Next you have a development note, here you can describe the development. The “Bold <b>” button will add the following into the development note <b></b>. If you type anything between the greater than and less than sign, this text will display in bold. If you press the “Line Break <br>” button, all text typed after it, will be displayed on the next line.

Now would be a great time to save this record.

You can select a “Main Picture”, “Site Plan Picture” and a “Map to Development” to display o the web, by clicking on the button with the respective name. On the left hand side, you can select a size for the picture (width – the height is adjusted in proportion). If you select a custom width, you will need to specify the width in the width field. It is NOT recommended to have a width more than 600. Then click on “Select Picture”, and select the jpeg that you wish to show and either double click on it, or click on “Ok”. There is also a button to “Clear Picture” should you need to. Then click on the “Close” button.

You can add in unit information as follows:

Click on the units button, click on the new button (icon of a page with a folded corner). The next two buttons and drop down list work as described above.

Type in the “Unit Description” e.g. Type A, B or C, the “Cost Price”, “SQ” (Square meters) and “Unit Quantity” (number of unit available) in their respective fields. Then you can select if the units have a “Priv. Garden” (private garden)

Then put in how many “Bedrooms”, “Bathrooms” and “Garages”. You then have 2 “Other” fields where you can specify any other information e.g. carport. Then specify an “Occ. Date” (occupation date).

The next 3 fields are for an “Est. Levi” (estimated levy), a “Panoramic” (panoramic hyperlink) and select a “Status” from the drop down box. The “ABC” button allows you to edit what will be found in this drop down box. If you click on it, it will display the selections one at a time. To edit a record, merely click on it, and alter the text in the top text box. To add a record, use the new button at the bottom left, type in what you wish the record to say and click on the save button. To delete a record, select it and click on the delete button. Once you are done, click on the “Close” button.

Then type in “Unit Notes” and any “Extras” this unit might have, and if you have a “Unit Picture” or “Floorplan Picture” click on the respective button, and follow the instructions as described for the “Main Picture” etc. as described above.

Please note: The order in which the information is added from “Unit Description” to the pictures is irrelevant.

Save this section.

You now can click on “Create Units”. This will allow you to link units captured in the Property Management to the developments section of your website. Simply click on the “Select” button next to the respective unit, select the unit from Property Management to link it to. The “Go” button, will take you to the details of the linked unit in the Property Manager.

Save once more and then click on the close button.

The next section allows for building specifications. Merely select a heading from the grid, and type in the “Description” field any detail you would like to specify. The include tick will allow (when ticked) or disallow (when NOT ticked) the detail to show on the web. The “Display Order” field will determine which item displays first (1), second (2), etc.

The new, save and delete buttons at the top will allow for the maintenance of the “Heading”.

The last section is to display a “Progress Report”. This allows for a report per date, so you can see all the progress from the first one listed. To use this, click on the new button, select a date for the report, and tick the “Display On Web” check box to show this information (this is optional). You can then type a progress note, and add in up to three pictures for the particular report. The pictures are loaded as all others in this module.

by: Mark Harris - Support CyberAgent

More information:

The New Development Module module has been developed to assist estate agencies to market and sell New Development properties. Up until now agencies had to contact us whereby we had to develop web pages to accommodate these new developments at a cost. These developments were also only available on the agencies website only and not on all linked websites (www.cyberprop.com, www.real-estate-south-africa.com, www.cellproperty.com and www.sundaytimesproperty.com).

This module will enable agencies to add the following information about each and every development:

• Location information (Province, City and Suburb)


• Main note / write-up on the development


• Status of the development


• Meta keywords for search engine optimization


• Main picture


• A picture of the site plan


• Building specifications


• Progress reports including pictures


• Units
  
  • Unit Description
  
  
  • Selling price
  
  
  • Square meter
  
  
  • Bedrooms
  
  
  • Bathrooms
  
  
  • Garages
  
  
  • Private Garden
  
  
  • Other 1 and 2
  
  
  • Estimate Levi
  
  
  • Panoramic field to insert third party reference
  
  
  • Unit status (e.g. Now selling)
  
  
  • Unit notes
  
  
  • Notes on extras
  
  
  • Picture of the unit
  
  
  • Floor plan of the unit
  
  
  • Linked properties to this unit
  
  
  • Unit number
  
  
  • Status of unit (e.g. Sold)
  
  
  • Link reference to the property in the Property Manager
  
  

It is not necessary to complete all the fields/sections. If the information is not supplied it will not be displayed. All note fields may contain HTML tags like for instance a bold heading.