When you enable state and country/territory picklists, the picklists are immediately available to users. However, it can take some time for Salesforce to populate the ISO code fields on existing records. If users try to edit the state or country/territory on a record before the code field is populated, they’re prompted to select a code value.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: All Editions except Database.com |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To turn state and country/territory picklists on and off: | Modify All Data |
- From Setup, enter State and Country/Territory Picklists in the Quick Find box, then select State and Country/Territory Picklists.
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On the State and Country/Territory Picklists setup page, click Enable
Picklists for Address Fields to turn on the picklists.
Note- You can also enable state and country/territory picklists when you finish converting existing, text-based data to picklist values. See Convert State and Country/Territory Data.
- When you enable State and Country/Territory Picklists, history tracking changes from text to picklist fields.
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To turn off state and country/territory picklists, click Disable
on the State and Country/Territory Picklists setup page.
ImportantIf you disable state and country/territory picklists:
- For records that you haven’t saved since enabling picklists, state and country/territory values revert to their original text values.
- For records that you’ve saved since enabling picklists, state, country, and territory integration values replace original text values.
- References to state and country/territory picklists in customizations—such as workflow field updates, email templates, and Visualforce pages—become invalid.
- Columns and filters that refer to picklist fields in reports and list views disappear.
- You can’t edit state and country/territory fields in reports.