Intro
Configuring state and country/territory picklists means choosing which states and countries you want to be available in your Salesforce org. It lets you make state and country/territory picklists available for purposes like importing data, working with external systems, and accessing picklist data from the Metadata API.
How?
- From Setup, enter State and Country/Territory Picklists in the Quick Find box, then select State and Country/Territory Picklists.
- On the State and Country/Territory Picklists page, click Configure States, Countries, and Territories.
- On the Configure States, Countries, and Territories page, select from the following options:
- Active
- Makes the country or territory available in the Metadata API so that records that contain the country or territory can be imported. However, unless you also set it as visible, the country or territory isn’t available to users in Salesforce.
- Visible
- Makes the country or territory available to users in Salesforce. A country or territory must be active before you can make it visible.
- Click Edit to view and edit details for the country, including to configure its states or provinces.
- (Optional) Under Picklist Settings, select a Default Country/Territory. The Default Country/Territory automatically populates country/territory picklists for new records in your org, but users can select a different country or territory. Default countries and territories must be both active and visible.
- To save your configuration, click Save.