We are developing a new Order Entry functionality that provides for International addressing for drop shipments of orders throughout the world. In our design we had planned functionality for the user to enter addresses that includes Company name, 4 address lines, city, state/province, postal code and country. These addresses would be saved against the customers profile and then be displayed in a drop down list box for future reference and use by the user. Since a high percentage of orders ship to the same address over and over, we would allow the user to select a previously entered, saved address.
The programmers are telling me that XML can not support the following functionality:
1. Drop down list box for addresses are limited to displaying only 50 characters of an address? and can therefore not display the completed address?
2. The address displayed in the drop down list box can only be displayed horizonally, address string but can contain multiple addresses.
Since I am not a programmer I think I am getting the shaft and need to know if XML can support the functionality the users are requiring? We can not use Java since we can not control it user on the PC's.
1. Can the DDLB support more than 50 characters of address?
2. Can the DDLB support the address to be displayed vertically as an address would be written? but also display multiple address so that user can make a selection.
This is what we need:
Company name
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
City, state/province
postal code
country
This is hwat the programmers are telling me is all they can do? but limited to 50 characters
Company name, addressline 1,city state/province country
I hope I have been detailed enough and hope that someone has done this order knows how to handle these requirements.
thank you,
Michael