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Countries

Purpose

Defines countries for addresses, telephone access codes and currencies. Required for validating PDXpert's software license key.

Where used

Organizations, Persons

Data fields

Name

This is the complete (formal) name for the country.

Short name

This is the common name of the country, which appears in most country-related fields.

Country code

The system uses the ISO standard 2-character abbreviation.

Internet domain

This specifies the Internet country code top-level domain issued by IANA.

Default language

This is the country's preferred business or technical language. Most companies that operate within this country will communicate in this language.

Default time zone (GMT/UTC)

This field is used to suggest local time zones for organizations that are in the current country. If the country has more than one time zone, it's usually most useful to select the time zone of the capital city or principal commercial center.

Telephone country code

Enter the numeric telephone country code. Although the telephone access code is usually unique, some countries share codes (e.g., the US, Canada and the Caribbean are all 1) and other countries may have more than one code.

Currency

Select the country's currency from the Currency collection list.

Active: users can select

Default member of collection

Permanent member of collection

For a description of these checkboxes, see the Collections reference > Common properties & attributes help topic.

Setup suggestions

To reduce the number of countries they have to scroll through, users will appreciate if you mark the Active checkbox only for those countries that affect your PLM process. Consider design groups, vendors, purchasing and (possibly) currencies. If you export your products, then you may want to include destination countries.

2014

Help topics describe the most current PDXpert PLM software release, and may differ from earlier releases.