How to connect deployed KoBo form to an existing real-time database to fetch relevant data bases on a common field name and populate some fields in the form automatically?

How to connect deployed KoBo form to an existing real-time database to fetch relevant data bases on a common field name and populate some fields in the form automatically (see attached)?

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@olasteven, kindly please be informed that I have split your post to a new topic so that we could index the issues systematically.

Regarding your concern, kindly please be informed that KoBoToolbox at the moment does not support this feature. However, it’s a work in progress feature which you should be able to follow it through this GitHub issue:

Will however, reach you back when we have this feature ready. As an update, please be informed that this feature will soon be released by KoBoToolbox.

Oh Perfect, and many thanks, will look forward to it.

Best.

Oladipo

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Hello,

Have a same/similar requirement - to read data “at run-time”, directly from an external (non-kobotoolbox) database (like an Ajax call).Is there any way to do this?

Currently, the only method to have data available in a form, from an external source, is to upload/attach a .csv file to the form (select_one_from_file, pulldata()). In my case, the .csv data file is very large (over 15 MB). Makes the form extremely slow, almost unusable

thanks