Author Topic: [Solved] Street address capturing question (Read 669 times)

davyivins · April 05, 2011, 05:28:47 am

Hiya all - newbie here, expect to see more of me!

I am building my first civiCRM for my local neighborhood association.
Many residents live in townhouse complexes.
Typical street address would be

# Townhouse_Complex_Name
# Street_No Street_name
City
Zipcode

(eg 23 Parkville Mews, 14 Gibson Street, Riversdale, 2020)

What is the best way to capture this so that we can later pull reports by Street_name or by Complex_name?

Many thanks for an help
Davy

Dave Greenberg · April 05, 2011, 10:47:11 am

You should enable the optional "Address Name" field and use it to store #Towhnouse_Complex_Name.

From Administer > Configure > Global Settings > Address Settings - check the "Address Name" checkbox and save.

You will now be able to use that field when entering (or importing) contacts and their addresses. And the field is searchable from the Address pane in Search > Advanced Search.

davyivins · April 05, 2011, 12:01:47 pm

Awesome! Thank you Dave. This solution works a treat.

For other newbies: I realised that I need to use wildcards if the address included more than just a single word. For example if the address name is "23 Parkville Mews" I had to search for "%Parkville%" to find the record.

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