Hi,
Currently, LSMB wants addresses to be entered in parts: Company name,
address lines 1 and 2, postal code, city, state, country. This is fine, of
course, from a database perspective.
However, it's not so fine from a perspective with businesses operating on a
global scale anymore: one business can have clients all over the world,
with each country having its own addressing scheme. E.g. The Netherlands
uses:
<Addressee>
<Address>
<Postal code> <city>
<Country>
(No state!)
Whereas Great Britain seems to use
<Addressee>
<Address>
<City> <Postal code>
<Country>
Of course there are all the variations of having a person as a second
addressee line and the suppression of address line 2 if it's empty and
suppression of <country> if the country of the sender is the same as the
country of the of the addressee.
My idea (driven by a request from Havard) is to associate address templates
with countries (or maybe even country/state combinations). Every part of
the application requiring the company's address would request that from a
function which applies the template to the database fields, returning a
simple (opaque) list of printable lines which can be printed in a letter
head or on an envelope. That way, we don't need to develop intelligent
templates which know about all the different variations of addressing
methods -- and neither does the rest of the application.
Bye,
Erik.
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