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Tech Tip: Establishing a default country
PRODUCT: 4D Business Kit | VERSION: 1.0 | PLATFORM: Mac & Win
Published On: January 17, 2003

When shoppers create accounts for your online store, there is a good chance they will become customers. To expedite customer data entry, the following code will make the process of selecting a country a simple process.

The following example generates a pop-up menu of the list of all the countries in the world with the United States of America as the initial option.

<select name="Country">

<!--#4DBKMenuCountriesAll/United States of America-->

</select>

This example generates a pop-up menu of the countries stored in 4D Business Kit with the identified customer's country as the initial value. This option will work only if the customer has initially been identified.

<select name="Country">

<!--#4DBKMenuCountriesAll/4DBKField/CusCountryMain-->

</select>