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Lookup columns - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint for Enterprise: Data Management
Lookup columns
- [Instructor] There's an alternative to the choice column that I want to show you. Did you notice this data type, Lookup? Well, this is really kind of awesome. What this does is points the column to another place on your site to pull the values from. Example, look at this. I've already created a table called Products, and all it contains is one column with the product name. If I pick Lookup on my new list, the screen will change, and it will ask me where it's going to look this up from. So let's call this, we got to name this. So call it Product Lookup to differentiate it from the other one, and we want it to contain information. And it's saying, get your information from, so we'll click this, and here's all of the different places in my site where I've got information stored. I just want to go to this products list here, and I've just got the one column, so it is called Product Name, good. And we don't need to make…
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