[Koha] Koha drop down box for States?

[Mahesh T Pai]

Ian Walls <ian.walls at bywatersolutions.com>
writes:


 > I suppose we could work up a special interface for geographic
 > information, where we could divide by country, state, region, county,
 > township or whatever other local geographic delimiter is used.  This
 > would bump up the complexity enormously.... perhaps there is an open
 > datasource we could draw from for this?

How about looking at the systemwide timezone configuration and then
loading the appropriate tables? 

Like - `cat /etc/timezone`

Also, some countries use the "zip code"; we use "Pin Code", here in
India. Is it possible to configure the display somewhere in sysprefs? 

Another - In India, each "state" is divided into "District", District,
however, apparently means something else in some countries. (I think a
city - like London - is subdivided into districts?)

So, a possiblity here could be having 8 or 9 fields for the address,
with user configurable names for each field. 

It will be a bonus if it is possible to have default entries for at
least 3 - Country, State and District. I will do a jig if filling in a
City would auto fill the pincode (or the other way around).

Data for such extras could always be packaged separately; and as
suggested, Koha can always use blank fields instead of drop down boxes
if some configuration / installation condition is not matched. 


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