Customer specific status

Is it possible by customizing, to default different values in this field in an Action, depending on which pers.area an employee belongs to? or do we need to use userexits, or is there another way.

Example: If an employee belongs to PersArea 1000, this field shold have the value 0, if the employee belongs to Pers.Area 2000, the field should have the value 1. Actiontype is the same.