lajackson wrote: ↑Mon Dec 19, 2022 7:56 pm
I am not familiar enough with LCR to know which reports/print-outs do not include address 2. But you are correct. There are a number of them.
There are addresses listed in the following standard reports, and they all show address 2 in them if it is not blank.
* Ministering reports
* members moved in and moved out
* member list (household view)
If you have custom reports that do not include address 2, then yes, those would have to be updated.
The reason that address 2 is necessary is that in many areas, the street names can be quite long. If you live in Utah, you have the grid system which keeps your address 1 line to less than 20 chars, plenty of room to add a comma and an apartment number. Most addresses in the Seattle area have a 5 digit number plus a numeric based street, like my address: 11821 SE 282nd St. If you understand our grid, you know that I live 118 blocks East and 282 blocks south of 1st avenue and main street in downtown Seattle.
But we also have many roads that are not on a grid that connect various towns, such as Bellevue Redmond Rd, or Graham Kapowsin Hwy, Pacific Highway S. In my specific area, we have Kent - Kangley Road and Auburn Black Diamond Road. Adding an apartment number at the end of the line can cause it to be truncated.
The default mailing labels as provided aren't well designed.
* They don't use state abbreviations.
* They are center aligned rather than left aligned.
* There is no field that allows you to specify the addressee name to be used.
* Even worse, they pull data incorrectly based on marriage and do not take into account people who are widowed, which could be traumatic if not caught.
With a few tweaks, what they provide would be great.