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Hello Friends,

I'm trying to get my head around the address handling so that I can use it more effectively.  I notice that when you go to Administer CiviCRM > Global Settings > Address Settings, there are a series of check boxes for the address fields including "House #" and "Street" (as opposed to a single plain-text field called "Address").  That's a really smart configuration, but that configuration doesn't actually seem to be implemented anywhere that I can see--the "New Individual" screen uses a single field, so does the search.  There's no ability to export those two fields separately, nor is their an ability to map them to different fields when importing, nor is their an ability to add one but not another to a profile.  So other than that check box in Global Settings, the House #/Street distinction is made anywhere in Civi.

So am I missing something here?  If Civi is capable of making that distinction, where is it implemented?

Screen cap here.  Possible that one of my colleagues hacked up the code to create that display without telling me--hadn't even considered that possibility.

Anyway, separate house #/street name fields would be useful in future versions.  When we canvas, we produce walk lists sorted by street, and then subsorted by house number.  If the address is just a plain text field, it's pretty hard to do that (not impossible, just hard).  Right now, we have "house #" and "Street" set as custom fields, and when we get around to it we're going to set them to autopopulate the built in address fields as to take advantage of the built in mapping/geocoding.

Cheers,
Matt