Address by Effective Date

You use the Address Book Constants program to specify whether your address book records can have more than one address. Allowing your address book records to have more than one address is helpful if a person or company moves to another address on a certain date. You can send correspondence, invoices, payments, and other pertinent information to the most current address while maintaining previous address information. If you activate the Address by Effective Date constant, the effective date appears when you use the Address Book Revisions program to enter or revise address book records. The addresses are stored in the Address by Date table (F0116). If you activate this constant, all address book records can have multiple addresses. If you do not activate this constant, address book records can have only one address.

If you activate the Address by Effective Date constant, you must run the Effective Address Update program (R01840) periodically to ensure that the system is using the current date for all address book records. Address book records are not updated with new addresses unless you run the Effective Address Update program.