Manage postcodes


About postcodes

To create a postcode, the country of the postcode must exist. By default a large number of countries already exists when WorkZone Configuration Management is installed.

In the Countries and Postcodes module, you can create, edit and delete postcodes of countries.

  1. Click Basic Data > Countries and Postcodes.
  2. Click on the field to the left of the country code of that country to see the postcodes of a specific country. The postcodes are displayed in a separate panel to the right.


Create a postcode

To create a post code, the country to which the code belongs must exist in the module.

You want to create the post code 2150, Nordhavn in Denmark.

  1. Click Basic Data > Countries and Postcodes.
  2. Select the country to which the post code belongs in the list of countries (Denmark).
  3. Click the cell in the column to the left of the country code.

    4. A panel displaying the postcodes of that country is displayed to the right.

  4. Place the cursor in the empty cell of the Post code column's bottom row.
  5. Click the cell once more to enter the postcode, for example 2150.
  6. Click the next cell of column District.
  7. Enter the name of the district for e.g. Nordhavn.
  8. Click Database > Save.


Edit a postcode

You can edit all information concerning a postcode except the cell Postcode. The content of this cell is the unique ID of the postcode. As soon as the newly created post code has been saved, the cell is locked for editing.

  1. Click Basic Data > Countries and Postcodes.
  2. Select the country to which the postcode belongs in the list of countries.
  3. Click the cell in the column to the left of the country code.

    4. A panel displaying the post codes of that country is displayed to the right.

  4. Click the cell of the postcode you want to edit and make your changes.
  5. Place the cursor in another cell and click Database > Save.
  6.  


Delete a postcode

You can delete a postcode as long as it has not been used in Captia Web Client. If it has been used with a contact or address in Captia Web Client its entries it cannot be deleted unless all its instances are deleted or changed in the Captia Web Client user interface.

  1. Click Basic Data > Countries and Postcodes.
  2. Select the country to which the post code belongs in the list of countries.
  3. Click the cell in the column to the left of the country code.

    4. A panel displaying the post codes of that country is displayed to the right.

  4. Click the cell in the column to the left of the postcode.

    5. The row is highlighted.

  5. Click to delete the postcode.
  6. Click Database > Save.


Postcode meta data

The data you can register describing a postcode is shown below.

Data

Description

Postcode

The contents of this cell is the unique ID of the postcodes, for instance, 2150 (Nordhavn in Denmark). As soon as you have saved the postcode, this cell is locked for editing.

District

The name of the post district, for instance Nordhavn (postcode 2150).

To create new entries, see Working with the user interface.