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Juan M Baena's avatar
Juan M Baena
Iron Contributor
Dec 14, 2018

List Connections

Hi there

 

Does anyone know if its possible in SharePoint Online for connecting a list on one site collection to a list on a different site collection? Thank you!

 

Juan

6 Replies

  • There are other ways with flow etc. but need a bit more description of your use case to really know or suggest what methods might work best.
    • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      By the way, I could think only on using Enterprise Content Types to have cross site collection lookups...but again, it's not exactly what he needs
    • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      I think he is talking about cross-site collection lookups....and we don't have those in SPO
      • Juan M Baena's avatar
        Juan M Baena
        Iron Contributor

        Thank you all very much, sorry for the delay in responding.  Yes the scenario here is using generic/custom lists. Customers in the past have used SharePoint Designer to create a data view web part so they can associate a custom list on one site collection to data on another list in a different site collection. Its kind of what was mentioned already a cross site collection look up column.

  • Hi,

    When you say you want to connect to list what exactly are you trying to do?

    There are 2 options – OOB getting list items

    Option1: Using “highlighted content webpart ” this webpart will query a list from one site collection to another site Collection.


    Please refer the link below … to how to use it
    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-the-highlighted-content-web-part-e34199b0-ff1a-47fb-8f4d-dbcaed329efd


    Option 2: More of custom development
    Using SharePoint Frameworks - SPFx List View Control

    In fact you can customize the Highlighted content web part for some extend

    Hope this helps!
  • Hi, When you say you want to connect to a list , what exactly are you trying to do.

    There are few options - if just get the OOB list item
    1. "Highlighted content web part" if you are using Modern Team sites, basically this web part is going to query a list from one site collection to other Site Collection.

    Please refer the link below ...

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-the-highlighted-content-web-part-e34199b0-ff1a-47fb-8f4d-dbcaed329efd

    Option 2 : Custom route to accommodate more functionality
    Using SPFx List View control" is an option

    Hope this helps!

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