diff --git a/grails-app/assets/javascripts/forms-knockout-bindings.js b/grails-app/assets/javascripts/forms-knockout-bindings.js
index 5707d60..29ac7ae 100644
--- a/grails-app/assets/javascripts/forms-knockout-bindings.js
+++ b/grails-app/assets/javascripts/forms-knockout-bindings.js
@@ -1193,28 +1193,50 @@
 
                     var dataLoader = new ecodata.forms.dataLoader(dataLoaderContext, dataModelItem.config);
 
+                    function doLoad(propTarget, value) {
+
+                        if (_.isFunction(propTarget.loadData)) {
+                            propTarget.loadData(value);
+                        } else if (_.isFunction(propTarget.load)) {
+                            propTarget.load(value);
+                        } else if (ko.isObservable(propTarget)) {
+                            propTarget(value);
+                        } else {
+                            console.log("Warning: target for pre-populate is invalid");
+                        }
+                    }
                     var dependencyTracker = ko.computed(function () {
                         dataModelItem(); // register dependency on the observable.
                         dataLoader.prepop(config).done(function (data) {
                             data = data || {};
-                            var target = config.target;
-                            if (!target) {
+                            var configTarget = config.target;
+                            var target;
+                            if (!configTarget) {
                                 target = viewModel;
                             }
                             else {
-                                target = dataModelItem.findNearestByName(target, bindingContext);
+                                target = dataModelItem.findNearestByName(configTarget.name, bindingContext);
                             }
                             if (!target) {
                                 throw "Unable to locate target for pre-population: "+target;
                             }
-                            if (_.isFunction(target.loadData)) {
-                                target.loadData(data);
-                            } else if (_.isFunction(target.load)) {
-                                target.load(data);
-                            } else if (ko.isObservable(target)) {
+                            if (configTarget.type == "singleValue") {
+                                // This needs to be done to load data into the feature data type due to the awkward
+                                // way the loadData method uses the feature id from the reporting site and the
+                                // direct observable accepts geojson.
                                 target(data);
-                            } else {
-                                console.log("Warning: target for pre-populate is invalid");
+                            }
+                            else if (configTarget.type == "singleLoad") {
+                                doLoad(target, data);
+                            }
+                            else {
+                                target = target.data || target;
+                                for (var prop in data) {
+                                    if (target.hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
+                                        var propTarget = target[prop];
+                                        doLoad(propTarget, data[prop]);
+                                    }
+                                }
                             }
 
                         }); // This is a computed rather than a pureComputed as it has a side effect.
diff --git a/grails-app/conf/example_models/behavioursExample.json b/grails-app/conf/example_models/behavioursExample.json
index d588fa5..ec48ab3 100644
--- a/grails-app/conf/example_models/behavioursExample.json
+++ b/grails-app/conf/example_models/behavioursExample.json
@@ -45,11 +45,6 @@
                   "name": "param",
                   "type": "computed",
                   "expression": "item5"
-                },
-                {
-                  "name": "item5",
-                  "type": "computed",
-                  "expression": "item5"
                 }
               ]
             },
@@ -57,10 +52,6 @@
               {
                 "source-path": "param",
                 "target": "item6"
-              },
-              {
-                "source-path": "item5",
-                "target": "item5"
               }
             ],
             "target": "$data"
@@ -119,7 +110,7 @@
           "items": [
             {
               "type": "literal",
-              "source": "Note for this example, data entered into item5 will trigger a pre-pop call and be mapped back to item5 and item6.  Note that the target of the pre-pop is $data which is the current binding context (or the root object in this case).  A current limitation is the load method is used, which means if the pre-pop result does not contain keys for all data in the target object, the data for missing fields will be set to undefined.   A planned enhancement is to only replace data where keys in the pre-pop data exist."
+              "source": "Note for this example, data entered into item5 will trigger a pre-pop call and be mapped back to item6.  Note that the target of the pre-pop is $data which is the current binding context (or the root object in this case).  A current limitation is the load method is used for all keys in the returned data, which means if the data is nested and the pre-pop result does not contain keys for all nested data in the nested target object, the data for missing fields will be set to undefined."
             }
           ]
         }
diff --git a/src/test/js/spec/TriggerPrePopulateBindingSpec.js b/src/test/js/spec/TriggerPrePopulateBindingSpec.js
index b328d50..ca9d196 100644
--- a/src/test/js/spec/TriggerPrePopulateBindingSpec.js
+++ b/src/test/js/spec/TriggerPrePopulateBindingSpec.js
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ describe("triggerPrePopulate binding handler Spec", function () {
                         source: {
                             "context-path":"test"
                         },
-                        target: "item2"
+                        target: {
+                            name:"item2"
+                        }
 
                     }
                 }