Editing address field mappings

Before creating addresses you must set up your address field mappings. Although mapping fields for most features is optional and involves non-required fields, mapping address fields is required to link address points to their corresponding records in Infor Operations and Regulations. This is because addresses, unlike other types of records, are defined by multiple fields, such as street, number, state, zip code, and so on. Field mapping gives you the flexibility to name each field in your GIS attribute table according to your agency’s naming conventions instead of using Infor’s field names.

First you specify the required address fields. You can set required fields for four different types of address records: standard addresses, blocks, intersections, and range addresses. If any of the required fields are blank in the GIS table when you try to create an address, the create function will fail.

  1. Click Preferences on the GeoAdministrator toolbar.
  2. On the Field Updates tab, click Required Address Fields.
  3. Under Required Fields, select all the check boxes for all of the fields that your agency requires for each address type.
  4. Click OK.
  5. On the Field Updates tab, click Address Field Mappings.
  6. Select the map layer that contains the address data from the GIS Address Layer list.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Each of the lists under Address, Range, and Block/Intersection represents an address field in the Infor Operations and Regulations database. For each field you want to map, select the GIS attribute field that corresponds to the Infor PS field.
  9. Click OK.
    If no errors were found, GeoAdministrator shows a message saying that it created the address mapping file successfully.