Interacting with data in a data repository

A computing system configured to:

• after automatically populating one or more display elements with data items from a first dataset to generate a graphical user interface, identify one or more unpopulated display elements that can be populated with one or more additional data items from another dataset;
• identify, based on template definitions associated with the one or more display elements, a second dataset that is joined to the first dataset that includes the one or more additional data items corresponding to the one or more unpopulated display elements;
• retrieve the one or more additional data items from the second dataset that is joined to the first dataset based on the template definitions;
• and
• populate the one or more unpopulated display elements with the one or more additional data items to update the graphical user interface.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• after automatically populating one or more display elements with data items from a first dataset to generate a graphical user interface, identifying one or more unpopulated display elements that can be populated with one or more additional data items from another dataset;
• identifying, based on template definitions associated with the one or more display elements, a second dataset that is joined to the first dataset that includes the one or more additional data items corresponding to the one or more unpopulated display elements;
• retrieving the one or more additional data items from the second dataset based on the template definitions;
• and
• populating the one or more unpopulated display elements with the one or more additional data items to update the graphical user interface.