Possible to change a property behaviour in admin portal?

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Hi

I’m calling to an external API. This brings back a list of customers.

I need to have a way to import these customers into our Umbraco but in the admin portal and the data is selected by the admin user.

So I first created a document type, then have a textString property called search. I add name and surname properties too.

In the admin portal under the content section, I would like to enter a name which then allows me to search the API to retrieve some results.

I have the API working which gives back results but is it possible to do this in Umbraco office so I search for a name which is then listed in another list box or similar.
Then the user can select an item from this control which is then used to populate the other fields that would be part of this document type.

Is that possible? If yes where do I start from?

Thanks in advance

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Hi there,
I would think that this could be covered by the Contentment | Umbraco Marketplace package and its Data List and Data Picker components.

Take a look at Data List here, maybe that would work for you?

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