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These are the bugs and enhancements which are currently open

Bug Component Summary Description Date Submitted Found In Version Current Status Target Version
#110 Toolbar Sold or not When the beta rightmove site became live, there were a few bugs (them not
property-bee!), one was that in your favourites they were not showing the
status of the properties.

The way the website is written, they add a bit of html if the property has
a sold sticker, another bit of html if it has a 'new price'
sticker etc.... the key thing is that if it doesn't have any stickers
then by their absence property bee assumes the property is available.

Now when they didn't put the status on the favourites page,
property-bee said this property is available, then someone else looked at
it through a normal search and it becomes marked as STC or sold... repeat
the process over and over and you get some peeved users with properties
apparently going available/sold/available many times each day!

So the solution was to stop property-bee from logging the status of the
property when listed in your favourites... hence why it works when you
click on the property but not when you view your favourites.

*** When rightmove have fixed their site, I can re-enable this
functionality ***		 10-Mar-09 2.0.3.10 Feedback
#114 Website My Bee: Allow users to manage their toolbar registrations etc My Bee: Allow users to manage their toolbar registrations etc 11-Mar-09 New
#115 Website My Bee: Work out the "nearest neighbours" Work out the "nearest neighbours" (in terms of overlap of
properties viewed) which then allows people to become a "swarm",
a group of local people that could share information/comments etc about the
area they are interest in		 11-Mar-09 New
#116 Website My Bee: Stats and leader board Some stats and maybe a leader board showing how many properties/changes you
found this week for a bit of competition!		 11-Mar-09 New
#117 Website Help: Authoring of content Help pages need a lot of padding out! 11-Mar-09 New
#122 Backend When a new version of toolbar is release the backend scripts need updating to allow the version access to the db I've forgotten to do this twice in a row, so the solution is to
automate the process, ie the backend queries which releases are available
from Mantis?		 11-Mar-09 New
#130 Toolbar Add a number of days since last change http://www.property-bee.com/forum/posting.php?mode=quote&f=3&p=2421
#pr2415

My initial reaction would be to add a column to the sidebar which gives the
date/time (or maybe the number of days or weeks) since the last change was
found for that property (which of course can be sorted like the other
columns by clicking on the column header)		 22-Mar-09 2.0.4.0 New
#131 Toolbar Only display server error messages once When people start FF, if PB is down for any reason, they get the error
message. At this point the toolbar should remember there is a server issue
and drop out of the bee until FF restarts next time.		 23-Mar-09 2.0.4.0 New
#136 Toolbar On rightmove property pages which show "Sorry.. We can't show your page" should be marked as 'Not listed' On rightmove property pages which show "Sorry.. We can't show
your page" should be marked as 'Not listed', example page:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/new-homes/property-20022967.ht
ml		 1-Apr-09 2.0.4.0 New
#138 Toolbar Details disappear from the sidebar When I click in the sidebar on properties that updates have been found for
by other users, for about 50% of the entries the title, subtitle,status and
price disappear. 		2-Apr-09 2.0.5.0 New
#139 Toolbar Add support for aspc.co.uk Add support for aspc.co.uk 11-Apr-09 2.0.5.0 New
#152 Toolbar Report javascript errors to the server / allow user to ignore errors An enhancement to Bug #164, so error messages
* are posted to the property bee server for analysis by developers.
* can be ignored by users (ie a checkbox on the dialog to ignore the error
if it reoccurs)		 10-Oct-09 2.0.5.1 New
#155 Toolbar Newly viewed properties are added to the current sidebar list, irrespective of whether or not they belong to that list From http://www.property-bee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&p=3439#p3435

How to replicate:
1. Open Property Bee Sidebar.
2. Set filter to anything but "All Properties" (i.e.
"Properties to rent")
3. Search through any properties for sale.

You will find that any new properties not previously in the sidebar, will
appear to be added to the "Properties to rent" section.
What's happening, is that any new entries are simply added to the
sidebar regardless of the filter in place. However, it's only a
temporary issue. Changing the filter or closing the browser and re-opening
will rectify the issue and place the property into the correct section.

What should happen, is that any new entries found should only be displayed
in the sidebar immediately if it satisfies the filter currently in place.		 25-Oct-09 2.0.5.1 New
#156 Toolbar Running toolbar with 2 open sidebars (in different windows) can lead to question marks being display in one sidebar Running toolbar with 2 open sidebars (in different windows) can lead to
question marks being display in one sidebar.

* Open 2 windows and a sidebar in each
* Browse new properties in one window
* The sidebar appears to update correctly in one, but the other window
shows ?'s for the new properties.

Closing and reopening the affect sidebar appears to clear the problem.		 25-Oct-09 2.0.5.1 New
#157 Backend Some properties marked with a little man don't show any changes when viewed From
http://www.property-bee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=771&start=45
#p3471

ClareMac;
Having cleared all my little men from the Sidebar yesterday I noticed I had
quite a few back today, about 20. When I checked them though, about a third
of them show a price reduction etc. on 25th October as expected but the
rest show nothing new e.g. the last date showing any change being April.

BH reply;
Just had a look (again) and think I've found something, not sure it
explains every rouge little man - but it may explain some of them!

One of the properties you viewed was at "2009-10-25 20:33:28"
(user_properties.last_viewed in the server db) however the change you found
when viewing is logged at "2009-10-25 20:33:29"
(rightmove_samples_recent.sampled_on in the server db), ie a second later.

Overnight the cron job runs, and generates notifications for all properties
where user_properties.last_viewed is before
rightmove_samples_recent.sampled_on .. which is true in this case even tho
you found the change, and when you click on the property, no new change is
seen.

Not 100% sure of the reason, it maybe
* comparing up the date/time generated by the toolbar with date/times
generated by the server
* that the server time is being used but ticks over from 28 seconds to 29
seconds between updating the 2 tables
 27-Oct-09 New
#158 Website Header Background When operating the Property Bee website at large resolutions (1900x1200 and
above), the header background does not stretch fully across the full width
of the site. The image needs to be tiled at one end to ensure that an
empty white space does not appear on the left hand side of the header.		 29-Oct-09 New
#159 Toolbar Primelocation: Unlisted properties not marked as 'Not listed' From speakers:
I've just started using PB with prime location, after a couple of days
a few of the properties on the sidebar had been removed from prime location
yet were still showing as available on the sidebar.

From BH:
When a property listing is no longer available, the generic page
http://primelocation.com/property-not-available/ [^] is displayed, which
doesn't include a reference number.

This causes us a problem, as we are unable to mark the relevent property as
"Not listed".

The only way I can see is

* tracking which page is being requested (by clicking the sidebar row) and
trying to associated with the actual page loaded - this is something the
current design doesn't do, plus it won't work if the user browsed
the property from a bookmark.

* try and get the location of the page before the redirect, maybe its in
the window.history?
 30-Oct-09 2.0.6.0 New
#160 Toolbar Daft: Unlisted properties not marked as 'Not listed' This is similar to bug #159 but for daft.ie.

"When you click on what will become an unlisted property in the
sidebar, daft shows a box at the top of the page and suggests similar
properties.

The problem for PB is that page there's no reference number in the
html to identify the unlisted property, and so Pb doesn't pickup that
you have tried to look at that property, so it doesn't clear the
litlle man."
 30-Oct-09 2.0.6.0 New
#161 Toolbar If there is a syntax error in the code, no useful error message is displayed This occurs because the exception is propagated up through the included
files, and stops the main file (normally pb_service.js) from loading. So
when the front end tries to access the service, the error message normally
shown just tells you the service hasn't loaded, and not why.		 31-Oct-09 2.0.6.0 New
#162 Toolbar Tabbed history Enhance the html injected into the webpage to allow the user to tab between
different views of the data.

For 2.0.7.0 suggest the tabs;
* Changes only
* Full history
* Price Graph

Futher tabs can be added later!		 4-Nov-09 2.0.6.0 New
#163 Toolbar Formalise and improve the interface between the user interface / XPCOM component At the moment the interface between the user interface and XPCOM component
is a little haphazard/incomplete, eg
* duplicate methods providing property info to the sidebar/history table
* incomplete use of observer or signals&slots to keep the user
interface up to date with the latest informations (whether property info or
toolbar config)

Formalising/improving the interface will
* allow the user interface to be extended without need to constantly update
the XPCom component
* lead to better understanding/requirements of what the XPCOM component
needs to do internally (for a future release)		 4-Nov-09 2.0.6.0 New
#164 Toolbar Provide an assert() implementation Provide an assert() implementation to help with development.

Later this can be extended to post error information to the server, so as
to provide developers with more info on bugs out in the field.		 4-Nov-09 2.0.6.0 New
#166 Toolbar Daft.ie Saved Ad's page is not supported Daft.ie Saved Ad's page is not supported 26-Nov-09 2.0.6.0 New
#167 Toolbar Rightmove: Brief Description can contain (x.x miles from station) at end Rightmove: Brief Description can contain (x.x miles from station) at end
where x.x varies depending on the station searched for. This causes a
change in description to be logged.		 24-Jan-10 2.0.6.0 New
#169 Backend A new user registering using an existing username displays a load of html rather then "username is already in use" If a new user tries to register with someone elses username, for some
unknonw reason the error message being displayed is the html about an
insert failing, rather than "Sorry the username is in use by someone
else" I'd expect to see.		 14-Mar-10 2.0.6.1 New
#172 Toolbar Firefox add-on doesn't work in Firefox 4 If the add-on is enabled in Firefox 4 (tried in beta 2), an error dialog is
displayed on startup and behaviour is as if the add-on is not installed.
The error is as follows:

Failed to initialise toolbar because TypeError:
Components.classes['@property-bee.com/service;1'] is undefined		 29-Jul-10 2.0.7.0 New

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