On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Jeff Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
...
> From what I can see when you ask for shipto addresses it queries the shipto
> table for all unique addresses that are associated with that customer from
> the entire history. The trouble may be in determining what the criteria for
> "unused" is. If you do it by date you could end up re-typing addresses just
> because you haven't shipped to that location in a year, etc. You could then
> add a date selection process somewhere to determine how far back to look for
> addresses eg: 6 months, 1 year, all... but that adds extra clicks to the
> process that may not be desirable for others.

Why not have the system simply select the next N most recently used
shipto addresses for that customer, where N is a configurable
parameter with a reasonable default?
-- 
Best Regards,
Wallace
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