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I have two lists filled with data (listA and listB). A is a list of people with column 'DepartmentName' in it. B is a list of departments with columns 'DepartmentName' and 'Building'.

I want to create a column 'Building' in listA and auto-populate it based on 'DepartmentName' (when it matches in A and B) using data from column 'Building' in listB.

(I'd have a list of people with their departments and their buildings in A).

It would be enough for me to simply display the additional 'Building' column in listA.

I've tried using lookup column but it seems like I have to use it while creating an item (I need to display the additional column for already existing data). It also seems like there's no way of creating a condition in calculated column that would resolve my problem.

Is there any way I could do this?

Best Regards,
Ania

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It sounds like you simply wish to show additional columns through the DepartmentName lookup column on listA. Open its column settings page and there will be a section called Add a column to show each of these additional fields. Select Building from the available columns and then save. You will now be able to view the building column on listA.

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  • Thanks! I managed to create a column that updates when a new item is created, but it still doesn't work for items that exist already.
    – Ania
    Jul 26, 2018 at 9:13
  • I tried to work it around by using a workflow that changes the fields value, but workflows have to be started manually or on creation/modification. So the problem now is to edit all the items at once to trigger all the workflows. I created an additional column for that and tried to edit it using access, but there's a problem with the access query and lookup columns (there are too many of them which stops the query even though the column I try to update isn't a lookup)
    – Ania
    Jul 26, 2018 at 9:19

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