Liz Stephens's avatar
Liz Stephens
New Member
8 years ago
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Update State / Province lists for better accuracy

We've had registrants point out that they cannot select "other" in the State field when they choose a country other than United States. How can this be resolved?

  • AshC's avatar
    AshC
    Retired GoTo Contributor
    Hi Liz,
    If there is a specific country that we can add to the list there? 

    --Or if you'd like to create an open ended registration question for attendees to type in the region of their choice, that will also capture different regions if you make the question required in Registration Settings.

  • We want to collect state/province info from users in the US and Canada, but for others we'd like to see 'None' or 'Other' listed at the top, immediately under 'Choose one'
    • scottstrand's avatar
      scottstrand
      Active Contributor

      This really needs to be fixed, it should be so easy to add "None" to the list.

      Even better would be the ability to display the Country field first, and have the State/Province field appear only if United States or Canada is selected. Slightly more work, but still easy, and it's the best experience.

      • AshC's avatar
        AshC
        Retired GoTo Contributor

        scottstrand  We are working on several improvements to the registration flows in the coming months.  I hope to include an update around this standard registration template as well.

    • kgately's avatar
      kgately
      Active Contributor

      We currently have "State/Province" as a required item on the registration form.  We have many registrants from Europe and other regions that do not have states and we've heard from many of them who are not happy that there is not a "none" or "not applicable" choice in the drop down menu, only US and Canadian states and Provinces.  This is also an issue that throws off our reporting and follow up because anyone registering from another country has to choose something that doesn't actually reflect where they are.  We often have meetups to follow up on a subject and we send invittes to people who are within 50 miles of where a particular meetup is taking place so it's important to us to have accurate information.

      PLEASE take this request (and apparently many others you've received on this subject) under consideration! PLEASE add a "none" or "not applicable" option in the State/Province drop down!

      • Adrian_I's avatar
        Adrian_I
        Retired GoTo Contributor

        Hi kgately, 

        We appreciate you taking the time to make the suggestion and can understand the inconveniece the current setup is creating.  As you indicated, this is something that we have heard requested previously and we will be happy to pass it to developers again to evaluate as something to be implemented in the future.

         

        For now, the best suggestion to work around this would be to still include the State/Province field on your registration forms, but not force it to be a required field.  With this, at least international attendees will not be forced to make a selection which results in inaccurate information on your side.