Below is how the address field looks on a form when users access from a web browser:
Character limits
- Both of the address line subfields can accept an input containing a maximum of 255 characters. For the subfield city, the character limit is 80, for state it is 50. The subfield postal code can only have an input of 20 characters and for country the maximum limit is 50 characters.
- Each of the address subfields, except Country, can accept letters from any language, numbers and special characters
Features
You can perform the following customizations for the user experience of the address field:
- Manage its subfields
- Manage capturing geo coordinates
- Enable users to adjust the address's location on a map
- Customize other field properties
- Report-level customizations
Managing address subfields
With regard to address's subfields, you can perform the following. Learn how
- Except the field Address Line 1, you can choose to hide the other fields from your users. This enables your users to enter just the required parts of their address.
- Customize the label of the selected subfields. This can come in handy when you want to display more specific text like "Door No. and Apartment Name" instead of "Address Line 1", and "Area / Locality" instead of "Address Line 2".
Capturing geo coordinates
By default, Zoho Creator captures the geo coordinates (latitude and longitude) of the address your users enter in this field. This data is captured in latitude and longitude subfields. This ability is controlled by Capture geo coordinates field property, which you can disable/enable as required. Learn how
Disabling this property does not affect the existing (already collected) geo coordinate data. However, the map reports in your Zoho Creator apps plot only those addresses that have coordinate data in the latitude and longitude subfields.
Adjusting address's location
By checking the Adjust location on map field property, you can enable your users to adjust the location of the address they enter. This can come in handy when your app is meant to enable location-based services. Learn how to enable this property
Adjusting the location does not affect the physical address data that the user entered — your users will be able to map a more appropriate set of coordinates to the physical address they enter. Below is how your users will be able to adjust the address's location:
- Enter the required address. Zoho Creator will automatically fetch geo coordinates (as returned by the corresponding maps service).
- Click the Location icon displayed next to the geo coordinates. A map snippet will open.
- Click/tap on the required location in the map, then click Done.
- The geo coordinates of the selected location will be captured. Below is how this looks when users access from a web browser:
Customizing other field properties
- Customize the field name and field link name of this field
- Make it mandatory for your users to enter an input in this field
- Enable showing this field only to the app’s admin (and hide it from other users)
- Set field size
- Describe the field using a tooltip of help text
Report-level customizations
When your users access reports and view the addresses stored, you can:
- Set the Display Value : This enables you to display just the required display fields to your users. For example, you may have enabled your users to enter an input in all the fields, however, you can make the address field display just the Country, State, or Address Line 1, in your reports.
- Enable Link to Map : This enables your users to click/tap on an address and view it on a map.
- Set the Display Option :
- This enables you to define if the address data is to be displayed as a Physical address or as Geo coordinates .
- When you choose to display geo coordinates, you'll get to select the format using which the coordinates are to be displayed: either the Decimal Notation or the (Degree-Minute-Second) DMS Notation .