How do you capture customer Country or Region?

Hi Liz, hi everybody. I am new to the crowd. And I am presently creating a rather complex upload sheet from scratch and I have NO experience with Type form. So I would be sooo grateful for some hacks… :-)

Hi @Sylvia Happy Friday! Thanks for stopping by. What kind of data are you trying to upload into typeform? 

I can’t believe Typeform has an AI form builder, video surveys, but you have to manually create a country dropdown.

Hi ​@amuirwood If it helps, you can copy/paste a list of options into the dropdown so you don’t have to type everything manually! 

Thanks Liz. I still consider that to be a manual task.

How hard would it be for the engineers at Typeform to build a proper country dropdown that’s probably needed for thousands of forms per day. 

Not really sure what my subscription is paying for. Such a stagnant app.

​@amuirwood - not sure that a standard country dropdown would work for everyone...i have about 20 different ‘country’ fields across forms, each with different subsets of the entries. 

if Typeform provided a standard drop down, it would have to be made editable in each case to allow users to remove countries they don’t want. To me that would be a much more manual operation than having a spreadsheet with the multiple lists i need to use and to copy that list and paste it into the criteria field. 

just my perspective tho.. 

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If the solution to a problem is “have a spreadsheet” then it means the platform is substandard.

I would love to see the data on how many people require custom country lists, for which it makes sense to use a manual dropdown, vs just give me all countries. Or an entire continent. 

So what they need is an “all countries” option for me, maybe a way to add or remove continents and just a custom drop down for you. 

Or the AI could do this, so it would actually add value to the platform instead of just being a gimmicky sales feature. 

Same for job titles, industries etc.

​@amuirwood - Typeform is only one part of the ecosystem for business processes. It won’t be the ‘end-all’ for any single person/process. There are lots of workarounds that i have had to put in place that i wish would be native features… 

it isn’t perfect, but most gaps that i have needed or encountered can be filled by simple workarounds or by adding another tool that is fit for purpose of a specific business function in the process flow.