Options

Global Address Validation uses the default options settings to define address validation processing.

Table 1. Global Addressing Options
Option Name Country Support Description
Default country All The default country for address processing.
To improve coding performance when your input addresses do not contain country information, set up an additional instance of the Global Address Validation stage as a preliminary stage to process and retrieve the country code for the input addresses.
  1. Set up an additional instance of the Global Address Validation stage as a preliminary (first) stage in your dataflow.

    Give the preliminary stage a unique label. For example, "Identify Country".

    Specify "World" as the default country for the preliminary stage.

    The preliminary stage uses the available input address elements with additional data sources (available when you select "World" as the default country) to determine the country code. The "country-coded" output from the preliminary stage becomes the input for the next step in the dataflow.

  2. As the next step in the dataflow, the addresses are sent through a second Global Address Validation stage with the proper country code (retrieved in the preliminary stage) to validate the address to the street/house/premise level.