Link project to itself and Dynamic Data Attachments

[salaheddinieyyubi]

in this video

How to Setup Dynamic Data Attachments in KoBoToolbox

show you How to Setup Dynamic Data Attachments from 2 projects (parent and child)
so if you put ID NB it will pull all the data from parent project

and in this article

Link project to itself for using and displaying data collected on same form

Hello all, Basically i would like to know how can i link a project to itself to use, calculate and display data collected on that same form. For example im building a form to collect user data, and i want to validate if user exists or not to create a new user or modify existing user information. Is there a way to do this using dynamic data attachment? ( i read the documentation but no examples on this particular case, i only see it connecting a parent to a child project) or is there any diff…

show how to link a project to itself…

so on my form that i build base on the video above how can i link the project to itself and know by the ID Nb whether this ID number has already filled out the survey previously? And if so… how does the model fill itself with previous data?

[Kal_Lam]

@salaheddinieyyubi, you should be able to use the XLSForm that has been shared in our previous post to link a project to itself:

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 t…