Salutations

Reason for Salutation Creation: Often address data is provided with the majority of the name data OK but some Titles, Forenames or Surnames are missing. The salutation creation module intelligently reviews the data available and creates the most appropriate salutation from the data available. Formal and Informal Salutation We can create formal and informal salutations using data provided with separate Title, Forename, Surname and Suffix fields or after Name Parsing. To format the names in a standard manner, you may want to have the names further processed with First Letter Capitalisation. Example 1 - Formal Salutation Creation: The example below show the results of Formal Salutation processing for a variety of names supplied. If insufficient data for a formal salutation is available an informal salutation is created. If there is insufficient data for an informal or an informal salutation then a default salutation, set by the client, is used. In this example, the default salutation has been set as "Sir / Madam".

Source Data			Processing Required	Salutation Created
Title	Forename	Surname		Before Processing	After Processing
Mr	John	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear Mr McCoy	Dear Mr McCoy
	John	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear McCoy	Dear John
Mr		McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear Mr McCoy	Dear Mr McCoy
Mr	J	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear Mr McCoy	Dear Mr McCoy
	J	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear McCoy	Dear Sir/Madam
		McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear McCoy	Dear Sir/Madam
Mr			Formal Salutation	Dear Mr	Dear Sir/Madam
			Formal Salutation	Dear	Dear Sir/Madam

Example 2 - Informal Salutation Creation: The example below show the results of Informal Salutation processing for a variety of names supplied. If insufficient data for an informal salutation is available, than a formal salutation is created. If there is insufficient data for an informal or a formal salutation, then a default salutation, set by the client, is used. In this example, the default salutation has been set as 'Colleague'.

Source Data			Processing Required	Salutation Created
Title	Forename	Surname		Before Processing	After Processing
Mr	John	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear John	Dear John
	John	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear John	Dear John
Mr		McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear	Dear Mr McCoy
Mr	J	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear J	Dear Mr McCoy
	J	McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear J	Dear Colleague
		McCoy	Formal Salutation	Dear	Dear Colleague
Mr			Formal Salutation	Dear	Dear Colleague
			Formal Salutation	Dear	Dear Colleague