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Import postal codes for Japan |
Learn how to import postal codes for Japan, including outlines and step-by-step processes for preparing the ZIP code files and creating data import projects. |
EricWangChen |
wangchen |
article |
11/22/2019 |
johnmichalak |
Application User |
Japan |
2017-06-30 |
DirPartyTable |
July 2017 update |
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In Japan, the Japan Postal Office provides a ZIP code file that you can import into Dynamics 365 Finance. This article walks you through the process for importing ZIP/postal codes. This example uses the JPMF demo data company.
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Download the comma-separated values (CSV) file from the Japan Postal Office home page.
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Open the file and convert the file encoding from “Shift-JIS” to “UTF-16 LE” (you can use free software such as Notepad++ for Windows to open the source file and convert the encode to UCS-2 LE BOM.)
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Open the file for editing, and add the following row for the column headings.
LocalAuthCode,OldZipCode,ZipCode,PrefectureName,KanaCity,KanaStreetName,State,City,StreetName,MoreZipCodeFlag,SmallerAreaFlag,StreetChomeFlag,MoreStreetFlag,UpdateFlag,Reason
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In the file, add zeros before any ZIP code that has fewer than seven digits. ZIP codes that have fewer than seven digits won't be accepted.)
- Go System administration > Workspaces > Data management.
- Click Import to create an import project.
- Enter a name, and select ZIP Postal Code Japan as the entity name.
- Upload the data file.
- Set the source file format of the importing project to “CSV(Unicode)”.
- Click Import.
- Validate the results.
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