Whats the trigger for a workflow, if I need to run API to populate dropdown for form?

Hi, from what I understand I can run a HTTP request to obtain data (lets just say company names from a database), and use that data to populate a dropdown field in a n8n form. However the n8n form is the trigger so Im confused how this would be structured… Is the form still a trigger but somehow we are able to get the form to run the HTTP request? Thanks

I don’t believe you can populate the trigger dynamically. You may have to try another way - with a third party front end for the form outside on n8n, or with a separate workflow with a webhook returning a custom html containing your form, which then submits to your current workflow with a second webhook.