Important: Address postcode and street number accept text 

Description 

The shipped Configuration/AcademicPersons/Settings.yaml listed the number flag for the zip and streetNumber properties of the physicalAddress set. The flag turns a field into a TCA number field in the backend record editor and into a number input in the frontend editing form of EXT:academic_persons_edit. A TCA number field stores an integer, so the backend saved 01067 as 1067, 12a as 12 and a postcode such as SW1A 2AA as 0, and the frontend form refused 12a and SW1A 2AA.

The flag is removed from both properties. They are text fields again, as their TCA and their varchar columns declare, and they stay required.

Impact 

Postcodes and street numbers are stored exactly as entered, in the backend and in the frontend editing form. Values saved before this change are not repaired: a leading zero that was dropped stays dropped, and a street number saved as 12 instead of 12a has to be corrected by hand.

Affected Installations 

Every installation that edits addresses.

An installation that ships its own Configuration/AcademicPersons/Settings.yaml with a validations map replaces the shipped map as a whole, because the files are merged by their top-level keys. Such a copy keeps the number flag on zip and streetNumber until it is removed there as well. The shipped set reads as follows now, the other sets of the copy are left out here:

validations:
  physicalAddress:
    street:
      - required
    streetNumber:
      - required
    zip:
      - required
    city:
      - required
    country:
      - required

Flush the TYPO3 caches afterwards, the settings are cached.