I have List X which needs simplifying. List X has 70 fields and I will split out about a third of the fields from List X and recreate them in List Y. After I can link the two lists, List Y will manage the Risk information. But are other parts of the SP farm currently using fields on List X? I don't have a way to check without painstakingly searching every list! I would need to find any lookup fields pointing at List X.
I need a cross-site collection search, since the are multiple site collections in the SP farm.
I have done some research and found this post which uses a powershell script which could perhaps be adapted? (I have no knowledge of powershell). It seems though that this script would only be able to search for a single field. Remember I'm trying to find all other lists in the site collection which have lookup fields pointing to List Y.
Any ideas?
Update - would using the GUID help?