Overview of global addresses

The information that you see for an address depends on:

  • The country of the address.
  • Whether PolicyCenter displays the address as text entry fields or read-only text

Overview of Country XML files

The country.xml files define settings that control the appearance of address information in PolicyCenter. In Guidewire Studio, you can see that there is a country.xml file for each defined country. PolicyCenter stores the country.xml files in folders under the geodata folder. Each file is in its own individual country folder. For example, the country.xml file for the address-related information in Australia is in the following location in Studio:

configuration > config > geodata > AU

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Overview of modal address PCF files

In general, the country of an address determines which address fields in the database are visible in the PolicyCenter user interface for that address. The page configuration file GlobalAddressInputSet has modal versions that make different sets of address fields visible. The modal versions of GlobalAddressInputSet also control the order in which PolicyCenter displays address fields.

You can configure the modal versions of PCF GlobalAddressInputSet to provide a modal version for each country for which you want to support address editing. However, in practice, the addresses of different countries follow a small number of patterns in terms of components of an address and their order of presentation. Components of an address include the street name, the house number, the city, and country. Some countries have additional address components, such as prefecture in Japan, state in the United States, and province in Canada.

In the base configuration, Guidewire provides the following modal versions of the PCF file GlobalAddressInputSet:

  • GlobalAddressInputSet.default – Used for Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States.
  • GlobalAddressInputSet.BigToSmall – Used for Japan.
  • GlobalAddressInputSet.PostCodeBeforeCity – Used for France and Germany.

To determine which modal PCF file is used for a country, you set the PCFmode attribute in the country.xml file for that country. See PCFMode attribute of the country XML file.

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