Address format

[goran]

Hi

Trying to test drive the CiviContribute (PayPal sandbox) and while going through filling in Billing Name and Address I run across the address rules/format issue, typically found on most web sites several years ago and that is - State / Province is mandatory.

Well, here it is not

Also, while at it - the State / Province and Country combination is not validated (so I managed to have Switzerland as country and DC as state; even though current civicrm has information on states and countries). UPDATE: Actually this is a bug that does not update the State / Province selection based on Country at all (should I open a ticket for this?).

There is a related topic on this at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5651.0.html

So, for some smaller countries there is no State / Province, or at least it is not used on the mailing and billing addresses.

As it is a bigger issue I suggest that for now it would be good if the State / Province was not mandatory.

P.S. Approx. several year ago this was a common problem even with some major sites. Today most sites support very correctly particular country addressing requirements and standards. My apologies if I am overlooking something.