Referencing External Data in an InfoPath Form

Hi all,
I am using SharePoint 2013, Designer 2013 and InfoPath 2013.
I am working on a a system that allows us to book a field support analyst for a particular site at my company on a given day. I have built a custom list that holds all the data and an InfoPath Form form logging and editing requests and this works perfectly.
At Present the site location field is free text which means that we have the potential for two people to call the same site 2 different things. I toyed with the idea of having a separate list in SP with all the site locations on but we would need to keep updating
this as new offices are opened and closed, so I took the view that I would link the site into our external support system that is the master list for all offices. This is an SQL DB. I have been able to set up the External Content Type and successfully create
an External Read Only List in the Site Collection that is displaying all the info I want. I have even been able to create an InfoPath Form from this list for reviewing the full site information.
The next stage was to add a drop down list to the request page that looks up the site name in the External List and records the choice in the request list. I can create the column in the Request List that looks up the site name in the external list but I
can add this to my InfoPath form for editing.
I am so close but I cant get there...
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Rich

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to call data from an external SQL DB but save it to an SP List. i.e. my site list is in SQL DB but the appointment is in an SP list

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