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Best practice for storing address using BingMaps?

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I would like to use the BingMaps connector so users can resolve an address rather than type it in themselves in a canvas app. Selected address would then be stored in a Dataverse table.

 

I am seeing that the GetLocation response does not include a city but does include a full address.

 

Does anyone have any thoughts on if it would be better to just store the entire address (address.formattedAddress) in a single column or attempt to parse the city from the full address to store address, city, country, and zip in separate columns? Seems I can return the address and the country so I would need to get the city and state.

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    Drew Poggemann Profile Picture
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    Hi @Cooper01,

     

    From a data model perspective, I would suggest to store each field independently in the Dataverse and not as a single field.  You will be able to do much better with sorting, filtering, charts, etc. with these fields independent.  

     

    You might want to look at the following https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerapps/maker/canvas-apps/geospatial-component-input-address to help with your situation.

     

    Hope this helps.  Please mark accepted if answers your question or Like if it helped in some way.

     

    Thanks,


    Drew

     

     

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    Thank you @dpoggemann, the input address component is exactly what I need.

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