RFC: Postal Address Input / Display Formatting

[Joe Eckard]

I would like to help improve postal address input and formatting in OFBiz to provide better support for international customers and shipments.

To start, this could be as simple as having two generic templates:

        Address 1
        Address 2
        Address 3*
        City, State, Postal Code

        or

        Address 1
        Address 2
        Address 3*
        Postal Code, City, State



and then adding more country-specific templates as desired.

Is there any additional interest in this? Any comments or suggestions?

-Joe


links:

The general idea is that a specified country would change how the postal address input form is arranged and labeled, and how the postal address is formatted for display. This would have a side effect of consolidating the input and display formatting into central locations. No data model changes are required, though a case could be made for adding a field "address3" to the postal address entity. (this is how UPS handles formatting for their Smart Labels, except they display Address 321 instead of 123) http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-203 - discussion related to a proposed freemarker implementation from 2006

http://www.upu.int/post_code/en/postal_addressing_systems_member_countries.shtml - address formats

http://xml.coverpages.org/Lubenow-UPUS42.html - UPU S42 Standard on International Postal Address Components and Templates (fairly interesting, but not freely available and appears to only have XML templates for 15 countries)

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