Changes to address configuration in 8.0

Previous releases of PolicyCenter used a large number of PCF files to render addresses within PolicyCenter. Many of these PCF files used one mode for each country.

With PolicyCenter 8.0, Guidewire provides three PCF modes that cover the countries/regions that PolicyCenter 8.0 supports in the base configuration. Each PCF mode defines the address field order used in that country/region and covers the following:

The field order for the address-entry edit view
The field order for the address read-only text view

The following table lists the new modes and the countries/regions that each covers.

PCF mode	Country
`BigToSmall`	Japan
`PostcodeBeforeCity`	France and Germany
`Default`	All other countries

ClaimCenter 8.0 changes the PCF files that render addresses and the AddressOwner classes to use the new GlobalAddressInputSet. Guidewire expressly designed GlobalAddressInputSet to be the only address input PCF for use in PolicyCenter. Guidewire strongly recommends that you convert any existing, pre-8.0 address entry PCF file to use the new GlobalAddressInputSet PCF.

PolicyCenter uses new Gosu class AddressFormatter to format the address display fields. You can extend AddressFormatter to handle address formatting for additional countries.

In addition to the new Gosu AddressFormatter class, PolicyCenter uses a new Gosu NameFormatter class to format names appropriately for internationalization.