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Aki Ruuskanen
Aki Ruuskanen
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Posted on 15/06/2020 10:00:37

Hi,

When creating a user there is a dropdown-field for "Billing / Shipping country". 

Beofre there were a textfield "Country".

I have been using the "Users" for displaying retailers in a solution. I have indexed them with a UserIndexBuilder and displayed them in frontend with a QueryPublisher. 

The probem is that with the new dropdown field I only get the Country Code to the front end.

Is there a standard way of beeing able to display the Country Name in front end that I am missing or do I need to do something custom for this?

Regards / Aki

 

 

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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 15/06/2020 10:50:01
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Yes, we have switched to country code in order to avoid 400 ways of spelling Denmark and make shipping, payment and other mappings work better.

You can use RegionInfo from .NET - create an instance from the two letter country code and the use the EnglishName or DisplayName property.

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Aki Ruuskanen
Aki Ruuskanen
Posted on 15/06/2020 11:01:32
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Yes, I understand. That is a good improvment. 

And of course RegionInfo. :) 

/Aki

 
Aki Ruuskanen
Aki Ruuskanen
Posted on 08/10/2020 08:57:25
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Hi Nicolai, 

What is the source for the new country code field? 

I am missing "Angola" from the dropdown. smiley

/Aki

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Carsten Boll
Posted on 08/10/2020 14:51:18
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That's strange, because Angola is definitely present on my solutions...

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Aki Ruuskanen
Aki Ruuskanen
Posted on 08/10/2020 16:16:27
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Yes in deed. 

I thought that the source would be the table EcomGlobalISO but there is a lot of countries there that I don't have in my dropdown. 

/Aki

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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 08/10/2020 17:02:10
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The source is .net: 

Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures And Not CultureTypes.NeutralCultures)

So I guess Angola is not a country in .net... Or it has to be installed or something.

You can add it yourself. See this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23087948/c-sharp-culture-name-for-angola

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Aki Ruuskanen
Aki Ruuskanen
Posted on 09/10/2020 07:58:50
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Poor Angolans... sad

Alright, thanks Nicolai. yes 

 

 

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