June 2019 - New fields

Published at 2019-06-20

The theme of this month's changes is adding new and better data to listings.

Added

  • A new amenities field on listings and project units. It tracks the availability of certain amenities on the home in question. The current list of amenities that are tracked are:
    • Access to elevator
    • Balcony
    • Patio
  • Apartments have a new storeys field for the total number of storeys in the apartment building.
    • See Other notes below for some extra information.
  • Nicer validation error message on URLs with non-ASCII characters in them.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that prevented some listings from being marked as sold without a known price.

Other notes

  • We've started to use the apartmentNumber to determine which floor an apartment is on. This is used together with storeys to determine where in a building the apartment is.
  • Amenities can be set on any listing and project unit. Hemnet might add filtering on these values later on, so adding support of them quickly in your system might give you an edge over the competition when that happens.