Country List

Country List

Country List lets you rename country names displayed in your form’s Address fields. Create a list with custom country names and apply it to any form in your account. You can also use the built-in translation option to auto-generate names in a supported language, then review and edit them as needed.

By default, country names in Address fields appear in English and few country names includes special characters, such as Åland Islands or Curaçao. Even if your form is in a regional language, respondents still see country names in English unless you translate them. Country List solves this by giving you full control over how country names appear to your respondents.

Creating a Country List

  1. Navigate to Control Panel > Customization > Country List.
  2. Click Create New List.
  3. Enter a List Name.
    Creating Country List
  4. In the Country List table, the left column shows the default English country names. Enter your custom names in the Display Name column next to each country.
  5. You do not need to fill in every row. Enter custom names only for the countries you want to rename.
  6. Click Create.
Notes
Note: Each display name you enter is mapped to the country in the same row. Entering a different country’s name in a row to reorder the list will cause a mismatch in your data. 

Translating country names

If you want to display country names in another language, use the language dropdown above the Countries List table to select a language. The system will auto-generate translated names in the Display Name column.

Notes
Note: Switching languages will replace your current custom display names with system-generated translations, which may not always be accurate. Review the names before saving.

Associating a Country List with a form

Once you've created a list, apply it to a form through its settings.

Enabling the list in form settings

To associate a country list to you form:
  1. Select the form and navigate to Settings > General > Others.
    Enabling Country List
  2. Under Country List, select the list you want to use for this form.
  3. The selected list will now appear as the country options in all Address fields in this form.
Notes
Note: 
  1. If you have integrations, webhooks, or rules that reference country names, review them after making changes to avoid data push failures.
  2. If you rename a country, entries submitted after the change will show the new name. Entries submitted before the change retain the original name. For example, filtering by the new name may not return the entries that contain original name.
  3. Update your Zoho Forms mobile application to version 3.28.0 (android) and 7.0 (iOS) and above for the feature to work correctly. 

Verify in the Address field

  1. Go back to the form builder and click on the Address field in the form.
  2. In the field property, under the Country List, the list you selected in settings will appear as a read-only value.
    Country List in Address field
  3. Click the View icon (eye icon) to preview how your custom country names will appear to respondents.
NotesNote: To apply a different list to this form, go to Settings > Others > Country List. To edit country names in the list, go to Control Panel > Country List.

Managing the Country Lists

Navigate to Control Panel > Customization > Country List. You can see the list of Custom Country Lists created.

Editing a Country List

To update the display names in a list:
  1. Hover over the list you want to edit.
  2. Click the Edit icon.
    Editing a Country List

  3. Make the required changes to the country names and click Update.

Viewing the usage of a Country List

To see which forms are using a list:
  1. Hover over the list for which you want to view the associated forms.
  2. Click the Usage icon (next to the Edit icon).
    Viewing the usage of a Country List
  3. In the pop-up, you will see the forms associated with that list.

Deleting a Country List

To delete a list:
  1. Hover over the list you want to delete.
  2. Click the
    Delete icon.
    Deleting a Country List

  3. If the list is not associated with any form, a confirmation will appear. Click Delete to permanently delete the list.
  4. If the list is in use, you will be prompted to remove it from the associated forms first. Go to each listed form’s Settings > Others and remove the list, then try deleting again.