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Juan M Baena
Dec 14, 2018Iron Contributor
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
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- 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.
- 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
- I think he is talking about cross-site collection lookups....and we don't have those in SPO
- Juan M BaenaIron 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.
- Thuyavan GanesanSteel ContributorHi,
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! - Thuyavan GanesanSteel ContributorHi, 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!