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How to make Country dropdown box in Profile

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Posted on by zen37

I created a site and I know now where to edit https://<name>.powerappsportals.com/profile/

I have added to the Profile page the Country field from the table Contact but it is free text; somehow I was expecting it to be a list of the countries in the world.

Is there any setting I missed?

Or how can I make such a list so the user does not have to type but just select?

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zen37 21 on at

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I created a new column Country of a data type Choice that I added to the Profile form.
But should not the list of countries have been provided in Dataverse->Choices? It seems elementary.
I'm still thinking I am missing out on something 🙂

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oliver.rodrigues 9,368 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi, I am not aware of an OOB Country choice in dataverse with pre-populated countries? can you share a snapshot?

In my projects I normally create that as a table instead of Choice column (but there is no issue on creating as a Choice if you prefer). But you have to populate that yourself, either create the records or choice options

hope this helps

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zen37 21 on at

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Hi, I am not aware of an OOB Country choice in dataverse with pre-populated countries?

OK, so it does not exist it seems. They should have provided it, preferably as a Choice.

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Fubar 8,346 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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You can always create your own as a Choices or custom Table. But put some thought into how you intend to use it and how you will manage changes over time - which may lead you to use a custom Table lookup rather than choices.

(If MSFT provided it out of the box everyone would complain that MSFT didn't keep it current over time or if MSFT kept it current it changed something unexpectedly - so they couldn't win either way.)

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zen37 21 on at

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A list of countries does not change so often 🙂
I was curious and the newest country is South Sudan in ... 2011.

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oliver.rodrigues 9,368 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If a country changes, let's say North Contoso and South Contoso decide to become Republican Contoso, how will or should Microsoft deal with that change? if they simply update the choices it could have a business impact on many implementations.

My opinion is that Microsoft provides a platform for you to build your solution, Microsoft shouldn't be responsible for business data/master data.

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zen37 21 on at

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Yes this could happen, but It has not happened in the past 30 years 🙂 and others do provide this.

Standard Countries and Territories for Address Picklists
Salesforce provides 239 countries and territories as standard for country/territory address picklists.
https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.admin_state_country_picklists_standard_countries.htm&type=5

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Fubar 8,346 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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@zen37 search for Country name changes not just new countries.
At the moment MSFT does not provide an out of the box list - you can always log an enhancement request in the Ideas

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