Andy wrote`No! Don't do that. Most of the world doesn't call it a
Zip code and every country has different formats. I hate it when I
get funnelled into a form using one country's terminology only.`
Exactly! And what do you do if you live in Karachi, Pakistan??
Karachi does not have a zipcode or pos
you could write `country of depature` instead of country of origin.
Depature and origin means two different things.
Ali
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@ Andy. I am currently experiencing exactly this terminology problem
from a previous form someone made for our Newsletter management and
the system also by default used "ZipCode" for "Country" and that led
to problems, when you want to sort data and the list only allows
"equal", "greater than", etc
Just call the field "Zip code" and make it mandatory.
No! Don't do that. Most of the world doesn't call it a Zip code and
every country has different formats. I hate it when I get funnelled
into a form using one country's terminology only. It's a Postcode in
the UK and Australia (both diff
AJKock wrote:
I am in the Travel industry and we have found that people completing
an online form has problems understanding when a field means "their
country of origin" or the "country they want to travel too."
We have the country field under the "personal details" section, but
some people stil
Can I see the form?
best,
Mitch
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jim Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Country of Origin" is ambiguous. Does it mean where you were born, where
> you live, or where you are travelling from?
>
> (I get that confusion when some asks where I am from. What does that
"Country of Origin" is ambiguous. Does it mean where you were born,
where you live, or where you are travelling from?
(I get that confusion when some asks where I am from. What does that
mean? Where were you born, they ask. We moved cross-country two weeks
later, and back two years after t
Then just use "In which country do you live?"
Best,
Andy
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In what country do you live?
In what country is your permanent residence?
Where is your home base?
What country do you call home?
Place a help icon or link for more info. Next to the question, emgm,
"what's this"
On 10/23/08, AJKock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am in the Travel industry a
> A strategy that is more likely to work is to ask for country in a more
> natural way, which is as a component of their address (if it is appropriate
> to ask for their address as part of their personal details).
We are using the "Jakob N loves us" Wufoo form and unfortunately they
only have an a
From: AJKock
> I am in the Travel industry and we have found that people completing
> an online form has problems understanding when a field means "their
> country of origin" or the "country they want to travel too."
>
> We have the country field under the "personal details" section, but
> some
I am in the Travel industry and we have found that people completing
an online form has problems understanding when a field means "their
country of origin" or the "country they want to travel too."
We have the country field under the "personal details" section, but
some people still tend to comple
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