brotherharry

It's not like installing a bulletin board on a website. Most Estate Agency software (like DezRez) is designed to be back office system to help estate agents manage their business and property stocks. Exporting property information to Rightmove (and other portals) is just a small subset of their features. The software service may well provide a webpage of sorts on their own systems, or enable some level of integration with your own site, but I've no idea of the level of customistation possible or what might be required on your end. More on DezRes's page here about 'your web presence' : http://www.dezrez.com/your-web-presence.asp. It could be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, particularly as you would not be uploading to Rightmove yourself.

Hi Patrick, The BLM files are simply a delimited file format where each field is seperated by a special character e.g. comma, pipe, tilde. Essentially it's just a text file. The .BLM extension is just used to help id the files on Rightmove's FTP servers. Most of the major estate agency software suppliers (e.g. DezRez) have built in Rightmove export options where they will generate the necessary file and supply it to Rightmove's servers automatically. Rightmove call these 'datafeeds'. If you are building a datafeed from scratch, you just need to generate the file in accordance with Rightmove's datafeed specification. If your site is delivering properties from a database it should be relatively straight forward, just a matter of exporting the fields in the right order with valid items in them. You get the spec and further advice from their Automated Datafeed (ADF) team on 0845 338 0076.