[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Enable Client-side To Run Server-side...

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At this moment it is possible to run a server-side trigger using the client-side API. However, this will only work on Save of a record, since an objectID is mandatory for the server-side trigger to run. There are a lot of viable use cases where you'd like to run the trigger on a field event (i.e. onBlur). Let's say you are entering a postal code and use a webservice API to retrieve the address, city and state/province. You want that to happen on the fly and not after saving the record. It would be nice if there was a way to pass your entered screen field values in an (json) object to the server-side trigger. Especially since you then can still use the new REST-mapping functionality to link up your Rollbase fields and the REST request/response.

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