Dynamic Data Attachment - Is it possible to fetch data from the same form?

[asif_rahman_joy]

Is there a way?

Dynamic Data Attachment–Using instance() function we can fetch data from another form with the help of “xml-external”. But is it possible to fetch data from the same form?

Thanks in advance for your cooperation

[Kal_Lam]

@asif_rahman_joy, yes, this is possible. You could do it as outlined in this post discussed previously:

Preventing duplicate entries by respondents

Welcome to the community, @nkwantanorth! You could do this by exploiting the dynamic data attachment feature as shown below: In the survey tab of your XLSForm: [image] Data entry screen as seen in Enketo (when the record is already present in the server): [image] Reference XLSForm: Beneficiary Name Check (Case Management).xlsx (9.4 KB) Please note the following when using the Dynamic Data Attachment feature to work: It takes 5 minutes to sync the data To make this work, you must link the …