First select the country, which determines the address format for you to use. See: Address Entry and Formatting Process.
Suggestion: Set the territory in your user preferences to determine the default country for creating and updating addresses.
If your administrator has set up address validation, then the address is validated based on the setup. If you do not enter complete or accurate address information, then you can select from a list of suggestions, if available. See: Address Entry and Real-Time Validation Process.
If the HZ: Validate First 5 Digits of US ZIP Code profile option is set to Yes, or you have not specified a value for the profile, and you enter more than five digits for a US ZIP code, then only the first five digits are validated against the Geography repository. If the first five digits are valid according to the HZ_GEOGRAPHIES, then the 5-digit ZIP code is displayed in the list of suggestions in the - State, County, City, and ZIP Code format. For example, if you enter 94404-1234 as the ZIP code, then the Suggestions list displays records, which match the ZIP code - 94404. If you do not enter a value for the ZIP code, then a value from the list of suggestions is displayed.
If the first five digits of the US ZIP code are valid, then the remaining digits after the fifth digit are stored in the ZIP+4 format.
You can specify that the address is the identifying address only if the address is active. If an identifying address already exists for the organization, person, or contact, the identifying address is switched from the previous address to the newly designated address.
You can enter multiple purposes for the address. To view all addresses of this organization, person, or contact by purpose, and to select the primary address for a purpose, use the Select Primary Address by Purpose page.
Note: Additional attributes are available if your administrator has set up extended custom attributes.