ZP4 Plug-in

[Breezer]

I have a plug-in that works in FileMaker 5 but not in FM7. Any help on how I can make it work?

**The developer no longer support plug-ins. The source code is available**

Edited September 7, 2005 by Guest

[SteveB]

Contact the plugin developer.

Steve

[Breezer]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, they no longer support plug-ins. I do have the source code but don't know why it works in FM5 and not in FM7.

[SteveB]

What does the plugin do? If we had more details, maybe there is another alternative.

Steve

[Breezer]

What the plug-in does is to send DDE messages from Filemaker to ZP4, and ZP4 sends results back. The ZP4 is a proprietary database that contains addresses with route details. We are using ZP4 to get the correct zip plus 4 and the mail route/carrier, the mailing barcodes, etc. In short, we are trying to standardized our database addresses to be compliant with what the USPS calls CASS-certified. In addition, we'd eventually want to get the latitudes and longitudes of a particular address.

To cut a long story short: We need to type in street address and the state to verify an address, get the corresponding zipcode for the address plus the 4 digits, eg, type in the street 6211 Terry Road, Florida, and get 32216-5099. Then use the TIGER files to get the Lat/Long.

Any thoughts?

[SteveB]

Two thoughts: Ryan Costello writes plugins, so he may be interested in trying to fix ZP4. See Link

The other thought is that there are zipcode+4 databases that have built in lattitude and longitude values. You could probably wire one of these databases into your solution without a lot of difficulty. There is even a free one, but I don't remember whether it had lat/long and how current it was.

Steve