Countries

To set up country codes to use throughout the system, use the Countries form.

Some of the fields on the Countries form are used by the European Union (EU). If the Activate EU Reporting check box on the General Parameters form is not selected, some fields might be disabled.

If you do not have existing countries already defined in SyteLine, we recommend that you useISO country names (available through the drop-down menu on the Country field) when defining new countries.

Mapping ISO Countries to Existing Country Names

If you already have custom country names defined and referenced elsewhere in the system, you cannot delete or modify them, for data consistency. However, when integrating SyteLine to other BOD-enabled applications, only the ISO country names/codes may be used. In order to make this work, you can map any existing custom countries to the predefined ISO countries, using theCountries form.

You can map multiple countries to the same ISO country. This is acceptable if you already have existing custom country names used in transactions stored in the database. For example, you might map the following:

However, if you do this, the system will choose only one of the country names to display in Business Object Documents (BODs). So if you have mapped multiple names to one ISO country in error, the BOD may include an incorrect country name. For example:

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ISO Countries