Do we need to handle International addresses?

[BryceStevenWilley]

LHI has a separate screen for it. If we do, it'll need to be added upstream in AL.

[BryceStevenWilley]

Confirming that they do. I'll look into what AL does for these at the moment.

[BryceStevenWilley]

Assembly Line does not yet have a way to ask for international addresses.

Some other approaches:

• USWDS suggests something from the Universal Postal Union for international addresses, though I'm not sure how to use it
• https://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2008/06/international-address-fields-in-web-forms.php is a good resource. It suggests splitting things up into the same structure as we currently have for US, just using more generic labels, like Address Line 1, Address Line 2, City, State/Province/Region, and Zip/Postal Code. https://web.dev/learn/forms/internationalization/#allow_a_variety_of_address_formats also links back to there, so it seems to be the most passed around resource for this stuff.

Most of the other sources that I see just support two countries (US and CA, or AU and NZ). I can look up some other suggested ways of asking those questions.

[normon66]

You may have already seen this in the HotDocs component file, but here's how that's handled behind-the-scenes.

And of course in A2J, when address is not in US:

[BryceStevenWilley]

Missed the upstream issue for this for some reason; https://github.com/SuffolkLITLab/docassemble-AssemblyLine/issues/281

[BryceStevenWilley]

Did some more work upstream in the linked issue; in short, we can use something very similar to the US only address input. The only difference is that the state field will be a text input, not a drop down select. More details in the above issue, but it just doesn't work well with Google autocomplete, which I'd put at a higher priority than us getting the exact province / state name spelled correctly.

[ekressmiller]

Sounds good! I added this to the meeting agenda just to make sure we (or maybe just me) are clear on how this works.