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ElementAbbreviation

is an optional parameter that specifies how Informatica Address Verification handles an input address element when the reference address database contains the abbreviated form of the element.

The reference data contains abbreviations for street information, such as names, descriptors, and directional values, and for locality information in several countries. When you set the

ElementAbbreviation

attribute to true
or 1
, Address Verification abbreviates an element if the reference address database contains the abbreviated form of the element.

The default setting for the

ElementAbbreviation

attribute is false
or 0
. If you accept the default,

Address Verification

returns the street and locality names based on the input, field-length setting, and reference address database entries.

If you set the attribute for addresses in Germany, Japan, or the United States, consider the following guidelines:

Germany addresses: If you set
ElementAbbreviation
to true
or 1
,
Address Verification
abbreviates the output street name in Germany addresses to twenty-two characters. Note that
Address Verification
abbreviates the street name only if a short name is available in the reference database.
Japan addresses: If you set
ElementAbbreviation
to true
or 1
,
Address Verification
excludes the word CHOME from Japan addresses, and returns the CHOME number inside the number field. By default,
Address Verification
includes the word CHOME in the street field of the output along with the number of CHOME.
United States addresses: If you set
ElementAbbreviation
to true
or 1
,
Address Verification
abbreviates any element that exceeds the character limit that the United States Postal Service specifies. For example, the United States Postal Service specifies that the Locality element can contain a maximum of thirteen characters. If a locality element exceeds thirteen characters, Address Verification abbreviates the data values in the element.

ElementAbbreviation and GlobalPreferredDescriptor Interaction

The values that you set on the

ElementAbbreviation

attribute and

GlobalPreferredDescriptor

attribute properties can affect each other. If you set the

GlobalPreferredDescriptor

attribute to a value other than DATABASE,

GlobalPreferredDescriptor

takes precedence over

ElementAbbreviation

for the corresponding descriptors in the countries that

GlobalPreferredDescriptor

can control.

GlobalPreferredDescriptor

does not affect street names or locality names.

The following table shows an input address in Canada and the output address when

ElementAbbreviation

is set to true
or 1
and

GlobalPreferredDescriptor

is set to LONG:

Input Address	Output Address
AVENUE DU MOULIN SAINT-THOMAS-DIDYME QUÉBEC G0W 1P0	AVENUE DU MOULIN ST-TH-DIDYME QC G0W 1P0

The

ElementAbbreviation

setting of true
or 1
abbreviates the street name and the locality name. The

GlobalPreferredDescriptor

setting of LONG specifies that the AVENUE descriptor is not abbreviated, even though the

ElementAbbreviation

setting is true
or 1
.

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