Setup

Address Validation Setup

The Address Validation Setup page bundles all settings for address validation, address prediction, and address data initialization.

After installation, the most important fields are already preset. This page describes every field individually, grouped by FastTab, in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Open Address Validation Setup

Choose the Search icon, enter Address Validation Setup, and open the page.
The page is organized into four FastTabs: Address Validation, Address Prediction, Address Data Initialization, and User Interface.
The actions give you access to API Setup, User Settings, Initialize Address Data, and Address Data Initialization.

Preset automatically

During installation, 365 business Address Validation already sets the default values listed in the following tables, once per company. A reinstallation or an update does not overwrite your own settings afterwards.

Address Validation FastTab

Field	Description	Default value
Address Validation enabled	Enables address validation. Enabling address validation may result in usage based transaction fees.	Disabled
Address Validation Scope	Specifies the type of sessions the automatic address validation applies to: All, Only enabled for client sessions with user interface, or Only enabled for sessions without user interface.	All
Address Verification	Enables the additional manual address verification. If enabled, an additional comparison window is shown every time address validation has changed or completed a deviating address. The user decides, based on the comparison, whether to apply the changes.	Enabled

The Integration Setup group specifies, per source table, whether automatic address validation is triggered when an address field changes:

Field	Description	Default value
Contact	Enables the automatic address validation for Contacts.	Enabled
Customer	Enables the automatic address validation for Customers.	Enabled
Vendor	Enables the automatic address validation for Vendors.	Enabled
Sales Documents	Enables the automatic address validation for Sales Documents, like Sales Orders or Sales Quotes.	Enabled
Ship-To Address	Enables the automatic address validation for Ship-To Addresses.	Disabled
Purchase Documents	Enables the automatic address validation for Purchase Documents, like Purchase Orders or Purchase Quotes.	Enabled
Order Address	Enables the automatic address validation for Order Addresses.	Disabled
Alt. Address	Enables the automatic address validation for Alternative Addresses.	Disabled
Resource	Enables the automatic address validation for Resources.	Disabled
Employee	Enables the automatic address validation for Employees.	Disabled

Resources are validated like customers

With Resource enabled, 365 business Address Validation automatically validates resource addresses on every change, the same way it does for contacts, customers, and vendors.

Employees are validated like resources

With Employee enabled, 365 business Address Validation automatically validates employee addresses on every change, the same way it does for resources.

Address Validation FastTab with the Resource and Employee fields in the Integration Setup group

Address Prediction FastTab

Field	Description	Default value
Address Prediction enabled	Enables the address prediction feature, which enables auto complete functionality in the Name and Address fields.	Enabled
Max. No. of Predictions	Specifies the maximum number of address predictions shown in the drop down auto complete functionality. Range 1 to 10.	4

The Integration Setup group specifies, per table or document, whether address prediction is offered:

Field	Description	Default value
Contact	Enables the address prediction for Contacts.	Enabled
Customer	Enables the address prediction for Customers.	Enabled
Vendor	Enables the address prediction for Vendors.	Enabled
Sales Documents	Enables the address prediction for Sales Documents, like Sales Orders and Sales Quotes.	Enabled
Ship-To Address	Enables the address prediction for Ship-To Addresses.	Disabled
Purchase Documents	Enables the address prediction for Purchase Documents, like Purchase Orders and Purchase Quotes.	Enabled
Employee	Enables the address prediction for Employees.	Enabled
Resource	Enables the address prediction for Resources.	Disabled

Purchase documents take effect

With Purchase Documents enabled, 365 business Address Validation also offers address prediction on purchase quotes and purchase orders.

Address Prediction FastTab with Purchase Documents enabled and Max. No. of Predictions

Address Data Initialization FastTab

Field	Description	Default value
Initialization Batch Size	Specifies the number of records read from a source table within a single batch of the address data initialization. Smaller batches keep the database transactions short and allow the initialization to be run in smaller steps. Leave the field empty to use the default batch size.	1,000
Initialization Completed	Specifies whether the address data initialization has been completed for the current company. Not editable.	Disabled
Initialization Progress	Specifies the progress of the address data initialization, in percent. Choose the Address Data Initialization action to see the progress per source table. Not editable.	0

For more information, see Initialize address data.

User Interface FastTab

Field	Description	Default value
Address Field Decoration Enabled	Specifies whether to enable text decoration for address fields. Non-validated address data is visually highlighted to inform the user of potentially invalid address data.	Enabled
Address Field Decoration	Specifies the type of visual highlighting used to inform the user of potentially invalid address data.	Ambiguous

Address Data Initialization and User Interface FastTabs with progress in effect

Actions

Action	Description
API Setup	Opens the 365 business API Setup page to configure connection and authentication with 365 business API cloud services.
User Settings	Opens the User settings.
Initialize Address Data	Reads the address data of the current company into the address data dictionary, in the configured batches. No address is validated. See Initialize address data.
Address Data Initialization	Opens the Address Data Initialization page, which shows the progress per source table and allows reading the data in single batches.