# Workflow Extensions - EXTERNAL\_DATA field values never requested

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-extensions-external-data-field-values-never-requested/11705>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** contacts\
**Created:** [October 28, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-extensions-external-data-field-values-never-requested/11705 "2018-10-28T14:48:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![system](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/system/32/124_2.png) [@system](https://community.hubspot.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-extensions-external-data-field-values-never-requested/11705/1 "2018-10-28T14:48:52Z")

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I’m attempting to setup a workflow extension that presents a SELECT field with values from an external source. The field displays, can be updated, etc, but the “dataUrl” is never hit to request its values. I’m currently just using RequestBin to confirm contents of the requests. Are RequestBin URLs ignored?

Here’s the definition, private bits excluded:  
{  
“id”: redacted,  
“integrationAppId”: “redacted”,  
“extensionName”: “Testing”,  
“webhookUrl”: “[https://requestbin.net/r/redacted](https://requestbin.net/r/redacted)”,  
“dataUrl”: “[https://requestbin.net/r/redacted](https://requestbin.net/r/redacted)”,  
“fieldMetadata”: [{  
“label”: “EXT Field”,  
“key”: “ext\_field\_1”,  
“fieldType”: “SELECT”,  
“values”: [{  
“type”: “EXTERNAL\_DATA”  
}]  
}],  
“latestVersion”: 11,  
“version”: 11  
}

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**Author:** ![system](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/system/32/124_2.png) [@system](https://community.hubspot.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-extensions-external-data-field-values-never-requested/11705/2 "2018-10-28T15:44:35Z")

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Looks like HubSpot is ignoring/skipping RequestBin URLs. Switching to Webhook.site works.

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**Author:** ![dannio](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/dannio/32/95715_2.png) [@dannio](https://community.hubspot.com/u/dannio)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-extensions-external-data-field-values-never-requested/11705/3 "2019-05-06T07:48:29Z")

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What format and how are you passing the data along? I’m trying now with webhook.site now and not sure what the return format should be. (There’s shockingly little documentation for this considering they’ve removed the webhook feature for non-enterprise accounts)