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In Aptify, addresses in a wide range of services, including Companies, Persons, Organizations, and Employees, have a common interface that includes the Address Management Toolbar.

This toolbar contains two buttons that generate a label for the displayed address in the appropriate format for that address's country:

• Copy Address To Clipboard: When a user clicks this button (the first button circled in Figure 7.23the figure below), the currently displayed address is copied to the Windows clipboard in the appropriate label format for the address's country. Then, the user can paste the address into another program, such as Microsoft Word.

• Preview Label: When a user clicks this button, Aptify displays a preview of the current address's label, automatically localized to the appropriate format for that particular country (see

  Figure 7.24 and Figure 7.26 for

  the sample label previews below).

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  See Using the Address

  Managemet" chapter in the Aptify Customer/Member Management Guide for

  Management Toolbar for more information on the Address Management toolbar.

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Aptify localizes an address label based on information stored in the Label Lines tab of the country's corresponding Countries record. (The Countries service appears in the Aptify Framework Administration and Localization applications by default. See "About the Countries Form" on page 767 for  for more information on this service.)

The Label Lines tab stores the standard Address copy/preview format for the country. Each sub-type record on this tab corresponds to one line on an address label. Aptify then uses this format to generate mailing label previews or when copying an address to the Windows clipboard for pasting into another program.

Figure 7.24 The following figure illustrates the label lines format for France.
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The Label Lines data is universal to Persons and Companies. If a particular field in the Label Lines definition is not applicable or is blank for a record, then the label does not include that item (and it also does not display blank rows). When previewing a label for a person's record (as shown in Figure 7.25below), the system ignores the <Name> parameter in the first line since the Persons service, does not have a Name field. Also, the address in the example below has no Line 2, Line 3, or Line 4 so this information is not displayed in the label.

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The following figure illustrates a second example (the label lines format for Japan).

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When selecting the Preview Label button for a Company, the system displays the Company Name (based on <Name>) but not <First Name>, <Last Name>, and <Company> since these fields are not applicable to the Companies service (as shown in Figure 7.27below).

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Note that not all countries currently have a Label Lines format defined in Aptify. However, an administrator can specify the appropriate format as needed by specifying or modifying Label Lines data in the Countries records.