Adding and editing countries

About countries

Poetic allows you to create and manage information about the countries needed to support your instance of Poetic. For example, if the publisher's business is restricted to Europe, you may want to disable countries that are not in Europe.

Countries may be made up of provinces. You can also use the country maintenance functions to make sure the province identifiers match those used in the publisher's other systems.

To localize the names of countries and provinces, you must use the list value maintenance function. See Editing and localizing list values.

Displaying the Search Countries page

You manage countries from the Search Countries page. To display the page:

1. On the Administration menu, click Site maintenance.
2. On the Site Maintenance menu, click the Configuration tab.
3. On the Configuration tab, click Countries.

Searching for a country

To search for a country:

1. In the Name/Code field, type text from the country name or code. You can use partial criteria. For example, to display all countries beginning with the letter B, type "B%".
2. Click Search Countries.

Adding or editing a country

1. To add a country, click Add a country button. NOTE: The Poetic database is initially loaded with a complete list of countries, so it is unlikely that you will have to add one.

   To edit a country, click the Edit link for the country you want to edit.

   The Country tab of the Country Maintenance page displays.

2. On the Country tab, edit the settings for the country.
3. On the Provinces tab, to add a province to a country, click Add a province.

   Province fields display under the last province listed on the page.

4. In the fields, enter the information for the new province
5. When you're finished editing the country, click Save.
6. To reset the server cache for countries and provinces, click Reset cache.

For information about the fields on the Country Maintenance page, see Fields on the Country Maintenance page.