Create a Name Style Format

In this example, we create a name style format, define its format variation layout, and assign United States to it.

Note that the application selects a name style format to display name components based on your Locale Assignment preferences. You can set either Country or both Country and Language as locale. However, you can't set only Language as locale.

When both Country and Language are set as locale, the application displays name components based on the language settings of your current session. For example, suppose you have the following two name style codes created under the Concatenated Name format:

• Style Code 1:

  • Country: China

  • Language: Simplified Chinese

• Style Code 2:

  • Country: China

  • Language: English

When you set your country preference to China and session language to English, you get the contact name formatted with Style Code 2. However, when you set your country preference to China and session language to Simplified Chinese, you get the contact name formatted with Style Code 1.

If no locale exists for a country and language setting, the default name style code (the name style code with Default Format for Style option set to Yes) is used.

Note that the name format takes effect only when you create a new contact or when you update the name of an existing contact. The application doesn't translate contact names.

Create the name style format

To create a name style format:

1. On the Manage Name Formats page, click Create from the Actions menu. The Create Name Style Format page is displayed.

2. In the Overview region, complete the fields as shown in the following table.

   Field	Value
   Code	CONCAT_NAME_US
   Name	United States Concatenated Name Format
   Name Style	Concatenated Name
   Default Format for Style	No

   Note: Set the Default Format for Style option to Yes to specify the name style format that you're creating as the default format for the selected name style, Concatenated format.

3. In the Format Variation region, click Add Row from the Actions menu. A blank row is added to the Format Variation table.

4. Enter 1 in the Variation Rank field of the blank row.

5. In the Format Variation Layout region, click Create from the Actions menu. A blank row is added to the Format Variation Layout table.

6. Complete the fields as shown in the following table.

   Field	Value
   Line	1
   Position	1
   Prompt	Person First Name
   Name Element	First Name
   Required	No
   Uppercase	No

   Note: You can create as many name parts as you require. Click Expand to enter blank lines and delimiters before or after a name part. In this section, you can use Attribute Transform Function to specify how the country attribute value must be displayed. Use the following one of the following functions:For more information about territory codes and their prefix for North European postal codes, see Seeded Address Formats for Countries topic.

7. Click Create from the Actions menu to create another variation layout as shown in the following table.

   Field	Value
   Line	2
   Position	2
   Prompt	Person Last Name
   Name Element	Last Name
   Required	No
   Uppercase	No

8. On the Locale Assignments tab, click Actions > Create, and complete the fields as shown in the following table.

   Field	Value
   Country	United States
   Language	American English

   Note: The application selects a name style format to display name components based on your Locale Assignment preferences. You can set either Country or both Country and Language as locale. However, you can't set only Language as locale. If no locale exists for a country and language setting, the default name style code (the name style code with the Default Format for Style option set to Yes) is used.

9. Click Save and Close.