Date index for Aug 2002

Hi,

> mail addressing.  Spain is an example that comes to mind, although I
haven't
> lived/visited there for many years.

We have the same thing here. We have provinces, but they aren't used when
sending mail. They are very useful though for locating the city, so they
should definitely be stored.

> That has led me to think that system parameters might be useful, where in
> the UK you might want to use the full name, in other places, the
> abbreviation, and yet others nothing.

That's easy to do. You can override the 'descriptor' of a node, or the
display function of the address fields, and implement something like this.
You'd have to do it per record, because you could have customers in several
countries.

When printing out labels or reports, you could have a (customisable)
template per country, that specifies which fields to put where in the
address. Something like this:

{$company_name}
{$contact_person}
{$street} {$number}
{$country-abbr}-{$postalcode} {$country-full}

etc..

Greetings,
Ivo