Creating cross-site lookup field in SharePoint

Friday, February 13, 2009

Cross-site lookup field is something we need almost every project that is not very small. There is no good OOTB solution but we can use field by Toby Bierman. This kind of field is easy to create because SPFieldLookup is cross-site by its nature. Basically you ave to perform the following steps.

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3 Comments

How to update lookupwebid? The lookupwebid won't allow me to update if the web id is another site collection.
Please let me know this is urgent.

Sharepoint user - Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:03:40 PM
You can not set it only if it is null. So you can assign it value only once. After that this field must live with this LookupWebId until it is deleted.

DigiMortal - Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:40:44 PM
Hi I know a way to create the cross site lookup OOTB. I will be the sharing the URL shortly to demonstrate the solution

Onkar Jagtap - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 4:37:00 PM

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