Hello Thinkwise Community,
I’m working in Universal (version 2025.3) and I want to automatically fill street and city fields based on a postal code and house number using the Company.info API, so that the address information is always up-to-date.
The main challenge is that I cannot call the API while inserting/editing a row in the default screen. Additionally, I want to ensure data integrity: if the API fails or does not return a valid address, the original values in the record should remain unchanged. I’ve seen solutions using an auto-commit approach, but that can leave fields empty if the API doesn’t find a match, which I want to avoid.
Requirements / constraints:
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Universal environment (2025.3)
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Call an external postcode/address API to populate street and city
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Triggered when editing a record
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On API failure or missing data, revert the record to its original state
Has anyone implemented a similar solution in Universal? Are there best practices for safely calling an external API from a row-edit screen while maintaining the original record if the API call fails?
Thanks in advance for your insights!
