New in Jade Property Suite 4.5

This update introduces a major new feature - Jade's website search engine. Other changes include significant improvements to web publishing and web design editing.

 

Property Search Engine

You can now include a search facility on your website that allows your visitors to search listings by multiple fields.

Jade generates a server-side search engine. search form and search pages.

Learn more about the new web search feature

Web Design Editor

• New Search Tab
  Options for search pages have been added to the Web Design Editor.
• New Search Form Font and Style Options
  Options for the search form label, field and buttons have been added to Font and Styles.
• New Navigation Links for Search
  Links to the search form can now be included as buttons or text links.
• New Custom CSS Area in Font & Style Options
  Each style element now has its own box where custom CSS can be typed. Experts can use this for additional CSS attributes like borders, margins, etc. Anything typed into this area will just be added to the style.

Web Publisher

• Web Publisher Window Shows if Search is Activated
  If activated, the word 'Search' will appear in the left panel of the Web Publisher window. No properties are displayed and Preview is not available on the local computer.
• New Search folder in Output
  If Search has been activated, a sub-folder called 'Search' is created inside the output folder. This contains all files needed for the web search (scripts, templates, data file and pages).
• Progress bar improved.
  The web page creation progress bar is updated more often and also shows the Search creation progress.
• Currency Symbols
  Pound symbols are now replaced with £ in the generated web pages.
• Category Totals Improved.
  Category totals were sometimes incorrect. This has been fixed.

Publishing Files

• Multithreaded Upload
  Publishing files is now multi-threaded. This makes uploading faster and allows you to keep working while uploading.
• Connection Options Added
  The Publish Files > Options window has new features for handling troublesome connections to the web server:
  - a connection time-out option.
  - a 'Keep alive' feature.
• Status Bar Improved
  The Publish Files window now shows 'total files' size in the status bar
• 'Find and Compare' Improved
  Checking files in the Publish Files window now checks all other selected files too.

Contacts

• Contact Form Letter Added
  Form Letter (A4 size) and Form Letter (US Size) have been added to Print Templates >Contacts > Letters. These templates make it easy to create your own mail-merge letters to contacts. They can be printed for the selected contact or displayed contacts.
• 'Dear Name' Added to Contacts Grid
  The 'Dear Name' field is now available as a column in the Contacts Grid.

Properties

• Form Letter to Owner Added
  Form Letter to Owner(A4 size).rtm and Form Letter to Owner(US Size) have been added to Print Templates > Properties > Reports and Documents > Letters. These templates are for creating your own standard letters that can be printed for the selected property or displayed properties.
• 'Joint Agents' field added to Properties Grid
  The text field describing the Joint Agents is now available as a column in the Properties Grid.

Jade HTML Code Window

• HTML syntax highlighting
  The code editor now highlights different html tags and attributes with colors.Tag errors are highlighted in red.
• Line Numbering Added
  Lines are now numbered making it easier to find a particular line of code.
• New Tags for Property Pages
  It is now possible to include data from the category in which the current property page appears:
  {property.category.name} Can be useful as a Javascript variable for conditional output.
  {property.category.headline} Can be useful if you want the category Headline to appear at the top of all property pages in that category.
  {property.category.introduction} Like the Headline, use this if you want the introductory text to appear at the top of every property page in a particular category.
• Window Position and Size
  The position and size of the Web Design HTML Code Editor is now remembered between sessions.

Other

• Numerous tweaks and fixes.
• New Help Topics.
• New on JadeTools.com: Search for Online Help.

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