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Please excuse the confusing title - I wasn't sure how to articulate this problem. This image should help explain things: Image1

So I have a Site Collection with a list of Products. In a sub-site is a list of Parts which are related to different products using Lookup. It pulls info from the parent table (Product:Priority). In the sub-site, I want to create documents associated with individual Parts, inheriting the metadata from both the Parts list and the Products list.

Ideally the user would upload a document and choose which part it relates to (from a single Lookup field). The other Part information (ID) and Product information would be added to the document's metadata automatically. Is this possible with OOTB sharepoint 2016?

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No: Using OOTB Sharepoint you cannot create lookups to other (sub)sites.

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  • It's the parent site, not another sub-site, that the second level info is pulled from. Does that help at all?
    – Mark E
    Mar 17, 2017 at 9:54
  • The same applies. Maybe the answer is in a termstore using managed metadata: create a termstore for storing the product names. Then you can use those product names in the three sites.
    – JJD
    Mar 17, 2017 at 13:25

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