cards.iwwa.belgium

Extension with some tools for Belgium

This extension depends on:

• org.civicoop.configitems to configure the available currencies. This may be overkill.
• be.chiro.civi.queryapitools to create the PostalCode API. This is a temporary hack, it would be better to create a proper entity. You can choose not to install queryapitools, in that case you can't use the PostalCode api.

It offers the following goodies:

Automatically assign province and preferred language

With this extension enabled, if you create or update a Belgian address, the province is determined based on the postal code. If the address belongs to a contact that doesn't have a preferred language, a preferred language is set based on the province. (This mainly applies when a contact was created using the API, otherwise CiviCRM will use the default language from the settings, I presume.)

This determination is not 100% correct, but I accept pull requests, as always.

Some typical Belgian configuration

This extension changes some settings of your CiviCRM extension. The idea is to apply some sensible settings for Belgian CiviCRM instances:

• date format (d/m/y)
• currency (EUR)
• default country (Belgium)
• ; as field separator (to please Belgian Excel, argh)
• address format and mailing format

The extension also changes the default language to nl_NL, but this change is only useful for the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. This is still a bug, there should be a way to choose a language (Dutch, French, German, English). Maybe using a setting.

PostalCode.get API

The extension provides a nice API: PostalCode.get. Some examples using drush:

drush cvapi PostalCode.get postal_code=2240
drush cvapi PostalCode.get municipality=Zandhoven

This will only work if you install the be.chiro.civi.queryapitools extension as well (v.1.1 or later).

belgium_postal_code table

The extension adds a table belgium_postal_code to the database that might be useful for your custom searches and reports.