Office Web Service

This Web Service, located at https://secure.idxre.com/ihws/OfficeWebService.cfc?wsdl, exposes the following methods:

· getAllOffices – returns XML containing all of client's offices.

Argument List:

o uid – company’s iHomefinder client ID number.

o sid - company’s iHomefinder password.

· getOfficesByID - returns XML containing a single office record based on company's internal office id.

Argument List:

o uid – company’s iHomefinder client ID number.

o sid - company’s iHomefinder password.

o OfficeID – company’s internal office id (OfficeCompanyCode).

· updateOffices - adds or updates office info based on client's internal office code.

Argument List:

o uid – company’s iHomefinder client ID number.

o sid - company’s iHomefinder password.

o XmlDataString - an XML string that specifies the data values for update. The XmlDataString must be formatted as XML, must have a root element of "officelist", and must contain the child element officecompanycode (company’s internal office code). Child elements are:

q officename – Name of office

q officecompanycode – Company’s internal ID for office

q priority – Office’s display order in office list

q phone – Office phone

q fax – Office fax

q address – Office address

q city – Office city

q state – Office state

q zip – Office zip code

q officephotourl – URL for office photo

q officeheader – HTML for header of office page

q officeareaid – Area ID for Office (contact iHomefinder for area ID’s)

q officedescription – Description of office

· deleteOffices - deletes office info based on client's internal office codes.

Argument List:

o uid – company’s iHomefinder client ID number.

o sid - company’s iHomefinder password.

o XmlDataString - an XML string that specifies the data values for update. The XmlDataString must be formatted as XML, must have a root element of "officelist", and must contain the child element officecompanycode (company's internal office code).

An example that consumes the webservice using Cold Fusion is:

<cfinvoke webservice="https://secure.idxre.com/ihws/OfficeWebService.cfc?wsdl"

  method="updateOffices" uid="1" sid="password"

  XmlDataString="XML_Data"

  returnVariable="UpdateOffices">

</cfinvoke>

Where the clientid is 1, the password is “password”, and XML_Data is the XML data.

An example XML data file can be viewed here.