Setting Up Flexible Addresses

Flexible Address Formats let you enter and validate addresses in country-specific formats. Following are the setup steps you need to perform to implement this feature.

Prerequisites

If you are using Receivables, Order Management, or Projects:

If you are using Payables or Purchasing:

To implement flexible address formats:

  1. Choose an address style.

    Before you can enter an address using the flexible addresses functionality, you must decide which address styles best suit your address entry requirements. Receivables provides five predefined address styles, but you can also create customized address styles. See: Creating Custom Address Styles.

  2. Define address validation.

    You can use specific validation for a particular country that uses a flexible address format. See: Address Validation.

  3. Assign an address style.

    Once a country has been assigned an address style, all addresses entered or modified for that country will use the flexible address functionality. See: Assigning an Address Style to a Country.

  4. Assign a value to the Default Country profile option. See: Profile Options in Oracle Application Library.

    The flexible address formats feature checks the value in the Country field of the address region to determine which address style to use. The country assigned to the Default Country profile option will be the default for the Country field in this window.

    The Default Country profile option is not mandatory; it lets you change the default country by user, responsibility, site, or application. If you do not set the profile, the default value is the Default (home) Country defined in the System Options window. See: Miscellaneous System Options.

    If you are using Payables or Purchasing and do not set the Default Country profile option, the default value is the Member State in the VAT Registration Information region of the Financials Options window.

  5. Assign a value to the AR: Item Flexfield Mode profile option. See: Overview of Receivables User Profile Options.

    If this option is set to 'Always Pop a Flexfield Window,' the descriptive flexfield opens automatically when you navigate to an address field. If it is set to 'Concatenated Segment Entry,' the descriptive flexfield will not open when you navigate through the field. If this option is set to 'No Window for a Single Segment Flexfield,' the descriptive flexfield will only open if it has more than one segment enabled.

Assigning an Address Style to a Country

To assign address styles to a country:

  1. Navigate to the Countries and Territories window.

  2. Query the countries to which you want to assign a flexible address.

  3. Select the address style you want from the list of values for the address style field.

    Note: Setting the Address Style back to a blank value will turn off the flexible address functionality for that country.

  4. Save your work.

    Note: Addresses within a country that is not assigned an address style will use the standard address format.

Implementing Flexible Addresses for the Address Alternate Name Field

If you want to use the flexible address format with the Alternate Name field in the Customer Addresses window, perform the following setup steps.

To set up flexible address formatting for the Alternate Name field in the Addresses window:

  1. Choose the Application Developer responsibility, then navigate to the Descriptive Flexfield Register window.

  2. Query the descriptive flexfield 'Remit Address,' then choose Columns.

  3. Check the Enabled check box for the column name 'ADDRESS_LINES_PHONETIC.'

  4. Save your work.

  5. Navigate to the Descriptive Flexfield Segments window.

  6. In the Title field, query the descriptive flexfield 'Remit Address.'

  7. Select the Context Field Value 'JP' (Japanese Address Style), then choose Segments.

  8. Add the segment 'Alternate Address' and the column ADDRESS_LINES_PHONETIC, then choose Open.

  9. Enter segment information. For example:

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