Yes, I think that will do it. Going to try the fragment approach first. Hoping it will be intuitive enough for our authors.

Thank you! However, I do not want the author to have to learn or remember the  Items Load Path.Instead, in the form's template I want to include a dropdown item of sling:resourceType = /libs/fd/af/components/guidedropdownlist that has the contents of the countrylist I created already in it.

I am trying to build a custom AEM 6.1 form template with the standard fields our company uses. To that end I want to pre-fill the country, state, and province drop down on the template or even the page component. I saw the article on creating a pre-filled drop down (https://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/ae...