I’ve made a connection to UK Companies House to obtain some basic company info from the central government registry.
As you enter input in to the Company Name field you get 3 fields from the API (Title, Company Number, Address Snippet).
The issue I’m experiencing is that within a single repeating group cell I seem to get different company number and company address which appear to be anchored to this item in the API field.
Any help appreciated to rectify.
Thank you.
Your repeating group’s data source should be of the API call’s type. Then, reference Current cell’s title/address_snippet/company_number
I’m doing something wrong as I dont appear to have the options your suggesting.
My repeating group does seem to align to your first sentence… but not exactly.
Are you able to expand any further on your suggestion please @georgecollier
Good, set the data source to Companies House API - Get All Companies’s items
Inside the repeating group, the top level cell should be set to Current cell’s X (and adjust the type of content so it’s correct. Rename this group to var - company so it’s easily referencable.
Then, in your texts, reference var - company's item's number/address/title
That’s brilliant… all working now.
The only issue I have is that it seems to be quite slow showing the repeating group / API results on the page I shared. Is that to be expected, faster in live prod, or should I be taking actions to try to make quicker.
I was hoping to get the API to work as a type ahead / autocomplete feel
Inputs update when you remove focus/exit them, so the constraints will only update when that happens. You can use the Instant Text plugin which will let you set the dynamic data to the instant/live typed text rather than the input’s last updated value
