| Id: | 8630 |
| Product: | fdPOWER |
| Type: | NEW |
| Version: | 5.02.17 |
| Opened: | 09/11/2010 |
| Closed: | 30/03/2011 |
| Released: | 03/05/2011 |
| Job: | J006609 |
 High Importance |
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NZ EDI Export; "ProperCaseNames" constant value changed from True to False
The NZ Death Notifications EDI specification notes:
Capitals
The first character of each word must be a capital letter for all fields. The remainder of each word must be in lower case. E.g. John Smith, Wellington.
The exceptions to this rule are:
1. Where NR (Not Recorded) is required to be entered in a field, both letters must be capitals (i.e. NR)
2. Name fields e.g. deVale, van der Watt, or Te Marama o te Po; and
3. Capitals are allowed for abbreviations in the cause of death field.
The standard NZ EDI Export document includes a constant "ProperCaseNames". It's default is True, which means all names are passed through a routine that changes them to proper case, eg "van der Watt" becomes "Van Der Watt".
After careful consultation we have decided to change this constant to "False" by default. This means name fields such as First, Middle, Last Names, Mother's Name etc will NOT be altered from that entered.
Therefore you must precisely enter names as they should be capitalised and not rely of fdPOWER to adjust.
In addition, "nr", "nR" and "Nr" are now automatically converted to "NR".
Note, the Word VBA document changed is "NZ EDI Export.dot", and it's new version identifier is "1.13".