Adding New Cross-Site Lookup Columns on Virtosoftware Guides & Docs

Conversion of Standard Lookup to Virto Lookup

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Virto Lookup allows users to convert existing SharePoint lookups to Virto Lookups and use extended Virto features without creating new lookup.

Just click the link in “Convert” block and select an existing lookup.

Click “OK” to finish column adding.

Dependence can be applied to the following single value fields:

Single line of text
Choiсe (Drop-Down menu)
Lookup (Single value, Multi Value)
Virto Cross-Site Lookup Selector (Single value, Multi Value).

The same way you can add fields with “Cross-site Lookup Selector” type.

Field Dependence Options

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You can define field dependence to set relation between the columns. Check the box “Field dependent options” and select:

List filter column(which column in this list triggers a change in the Display Column);
Current list trigger column(which column in the Source List determines the values to filter on).

Additional Columns

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Virto Cross-Site Lookup allows users to add more columns to the lookup, that will be displayed only on list item viewform. Select required from the list and click “Add” Added column will appear in the “Show other columns” block. Use “Up” and “Down” buttons to define the order of the columns.

In the following example, the lookup column “Title” has additional column “Start time” from the same lookup list. This column “Title:Start time” and its value are added automatically to the item when you define the field value from depending lookup field “Title”.

Multiple Values and Duplicate Values

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Check the box “Allow multiple values” in case you need to enable multiple values in your lookup. Check the box “Remove duplicate items” if you need to exclude duplicated items from the lookup.

Basic Fields’ Parameters

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Then fill out the following fields:

Description– description of the column.
Source site URL- site from the current site collection, which data will be taken from.
Source List– a source SharePoint list (“Country-City” list), which data will be taken from.
Display column– a column from the source list, that will be displayed in the lookup (for example, Country).