Lookup Column - Shows Some Additional Fields, But Missing Columns

Question

I have created two related lists. The first list is keeps track of specific meetings, with the following:

• Name of meeting (Single Line Text)
• Date of meeting (Date and Time)
• Chair of meeting (Person)

The second list keeps track of meeting actions. Among other columns, each item in the action list contains a reference to the meeting the action was assigned in. I am able to use the lookup column feature to do this; I am also able to pull in the date of the meeting. However, it does not give me the option to pull in the meeting chair person.

I see that there are columns for Created and Modified which are people columns, but my specific Chairperson column does not come through.

Is there something I need to do differently to get the chairperson referenced on the view for the meeting actions?

Answer 1

This is limitation. The additional fields cannot be of type Currency, Person, Lookup, Calculated, Custom Columns. See here for more information: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0753df63-8b30-4594-a8bd-ef8ba9514103/content-type-or-lists-lookup-column-cant-show-additional-fields-which-are-choice-or-lookup-columns?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious