Comments on: Declaratively adding a lookup field to a list schema using the name of the referenced list http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/ If your sword is too short, take one step forward Sat, 11 May 2013 21:43:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter Holpar http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-555 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:56:53 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-555 Hi Pieter,

Yes, the list must exist before lookup is created, as SharePoint tries to resolve the list name to list GUID when the lookup field is created. I’m afraid you cannot apply this technique in a single step in scenario 2, but the plan for two separate features sound to be a viable alternative.

Peter

]]> By: pietersveenstra http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-550 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:14:44 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-550 I’ve just tried the same for two of my lookups.

1. A Lookup to an other list. This worked fine.
2. A lookup to the list containing the lookup (I’ve got a list of items with a lookup giving the option to select a parent item).

The 2nd option doesn’t work. Most likely as the list doesn’t exist when the lookup is created. I guess that the only way around this might be by creating two features for this list. 1. a feature that creates the list and then a 2nd one whcih upgrades the list with the lookup.

]]> By: raghu http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-381 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:01:16 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-381 Hi,
Just tried this and this list needs to be in the current web only so if we want to add a lookup column to the site and then use it in the customlist is there any work around?

Regards,
Raghu

]]> By: raghu http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-380 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:45:34 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-380 Hi ,
I have a quick question so is this lookup column getting value from the root list?

Thanking you in anticipation

Regards,
raghu

]]> By: Thomas http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-379 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:05:07 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-379 Thanks a million! I’ve been looking all over for a way to do this and your solution worked perfectly!

]]> By: pholpar http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-248 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:38:30 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-248 Manish, NoBody,

I’ve tested the sample feature on my SP2010 installation and it worked as expected. Double check your feature (if you altered the sample) to avoid possible typos.

Have you created your list based on the list template included in the feature?

Do you work with the RTM version of SP2010?

Peter

]]> By: pholpar http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-241 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:55:27 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-241 Sorry, not yet.

]]> By: NoBody http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-240 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:23:52 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-240 Reporting the exact same situation, with SharePoint 2010.

Have you, by any chance, had a look into this already, pholpar?

]]> By: pholpar http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-237 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:30:39 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-237 Hi Manish,

Thanks for the comment. I should point out that this post is originally for MOSS 2007/WSS 3.0, it was not tested for any version of SharePoint 2010. I will “upgrade” the solution to 2010 as my time allows that.

Peter

]]> By: Manish Kaushal http://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-236 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:50:14 +0000 https://pholpar.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/declaratively-adding-a-lookup-field-to-a-list-schema-using-the-name-of-the-referenced-list/#comment-236 Hi,
Great stuff!! However there is one glitch in creating lookup columns this way which is that Sharepoint 2010 throws error when we try to add an item to this list. I tried povisioning lookup column using this method of setting the “List” property in the field xml declaration.

List is created successfully, references created correctly but it breaks on adding a dataitem to this list giving the following error

0x80070057Invalid data has been used to update the list item. The field you are trying to update may be read only.

Is there any workaround for this issue?

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