Importing address zone data
You can import address zone data when you first install the product and at infrequent intervals thereafter as you receive data updates. You use the zone_import command to import zone data into staging tables, and then you use the table_import command to import the staging table data.
In the base configuration, Guidewire provides the following sample zone data files in :
- AU-Locations.txt – Australia
- CA-Locations.txt – Canada
- DE-Locations.txt – Germany
- FR-Locations.txt – France
- GB-Locations.txt – Great Britain
- JP-Locations.txt – Japan
- US-Locations.txt – Unites States of America
Guidewire provides these files for testing purposes to support auto-fill and auto-complete when users enter addresses. You must import one of these files to use it in testing those features. This data is provided on an as-is basis. The provided zone data files are not complete and might not include recent changes.
The formatting of individual data items in these files might not conform to your internal standards or the standards of third-party vendors that you use. For example, the names of streets and cities are formatted with mixed case letters, but your standards might require all upper case letters.
The US-Locations.txt file contains information that does not conform to United States Postal Service (USPS) standards for bulk mailings. You can edit this file to conform to your particular address standards, and then import that version of the file.
Guidewire does not provide complete and up-to-date zone data files that you can import with the zone_import command. You must create these files or obtain them from vendors, like GreatData.
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