How can i create a zipcode field?

[Felipe Dorocinski]

Hi everyone,

Recently i received a request to create a zipcode field, which needs to have a "-" signal in the middle.

To be honest, i tried to find a way by myself, however, i coudn't see a clear solution.

Could you help me, please? :D

[Jack Brickey · Accepted solution]

You can’t create a specifically formatted field that would be #####-####. You could have a text field but not ideal. You could create a cascading field with the first 5 digits in the primary field and the last 4 in the secondary but this requires you to record all options (yikes). You might look at using an addon like Elements to pull in external data from a zip code DB. I saw a demo of this yesterday and seems powerful but it is only Beta in Cloud and is limited to SQL DB at the moment. There may be other addons that could help.

[Felipe Dorocinski]

Thanks a lot @Jack Brickey!