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Is there a convenient way of formatting addresses according to the country?

No, not yet.

I guess that this is currently not supported since such info would have to be defined in the countries table. Where could I look for advice if I decide to hack it in?

Is is enough to have one address format per country? For example, do Canadian addresses vary when written in English (as opposed to French)? (Same question for Swiss or Indian addresses, I guess.)

Quote from: Piotr Szotkowski on November 19, 2008, 04:52:57 am

Is is enough to have one address format per country? For example, do Canadian addresses vary when written in English (as opposed to French)? (Same question for Swiss or Indian addresses, I guess.)

In my case it is enough that the format is a function of a country value. To cover all possibilities this could be extended to be a function of a country, province/state with a format table such as:
 country_id, state_province, address_format

This still doesn’t cover the case I wrote about, which is when an address for the same place changes depending on the language used (English/French, for example). But I assume it’s a rare case, and if we add a per-country address format then that case can be solved with multi-lingual install (with localised civicrm_country.address_format columns).

In the mean time I am either going to add this functionality or use a custom field for the US postcodes. Then I could have
{contact.postal_code}{ }{contact.city}{, }{contact.state_province}{ }{custom.field}
and get alternative formats without touching the application.

We won’t implement it for CiviCRM 2.2 (which is in feature freeze and will go into code freeze in about a week), but we might consider doing this for CiviCRM 2.3 (and we’re open to suggestions on how to best meet your needs). I filed CRM-3854 to track this.