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SharePoint Cascaded Lookup by SharePointBoost Hot

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Developer SharePointBoost
Supports MOSS 2007 • WSS v3
Price, US $ 299.00
Licensing Per Bundle
Free Trial Yes
Website http://www.sharepointboost.com

SharePoint Cascaded Lookup allows users to lookup FILTERED information from other lists of different sites.

SharePoint default lookup allows us ers to lookup other list. If column A lookup column B, we call column B as Looked-up Column. When users edit/create an item, all the values of Looked-up column will display as choices in dropdown list of lookup column.

SharePoint Cascaded Lookup introduces Filter Column and Parent Column to filter field values so as to narrow the range of choices. With it, you can lookup field values more quickly and accurately.

Filter Column is in the same list with the looked-up column. As the name goes, if you set a column as Filter column for the looked-up column, when you edit/create an item, the choices of the cascaded lookup column will be filtered according to the value of the Filter Column.

Parent Column, which is also used to filter looked-up values, is in the same list with the Cascaded Lookup column. When you set a column as Parent Column of a cascaded lookup column, in the edit/new form of an item, the choices of Cascaded lookup column in dropdown list will be different according to the value of Parent Column.

Features:

  • Support Cross-Site Lookup other lists;
  • Easily filter field values by other fields in the same list;
  • Two-way convert to SharePoint default lookup type or SharePoint Cross-Site Lookup type.

    • Expert review

    Finaly Cascaded Lookup

    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
    Without fails when I and other Officetalk SharePoint Consultants are assisting with SharePoint Projects we get the dreaded question. "Yes, but how do I add another level to the list?". OK the wording changes but they all want to have a drop-down list based on the entry they entered on a previous list.

    The basic SharePoint Lookup feature is quite basic and just gives a list of the entries on another field on the current site. Yes, with SharePoint Designer and Data Views you can combine data from lists on several sites but it is quite a complex process. Out of the box SharePoint falls short here, but SharePoint Boost's Cascaded Lookup takes it to the next level.

    Being a football fan (the great Aston Villa) I have used Cascaded Lookup to set up a European Players list. It starts with all the European Countries and the leagues in each and then has a list for each of the teams in each league. So now using Cacaded Lookup the user can enter an individual players details and have a field called 'Team' that is filtered first by Country and then by League.

    For example for Kaka we enter 'Spain' as Country and this lists the Spanish leagues. We then choose 'La Liga' and this lists all the La Liga clubs and from there we choose Barcelona.

    Cascaded Lookup is simple but a very useful tool.

    Product Reviews

    Pros Easy to install
    Reasonable price
    Free 30 day trial
    Great for filtering field entries (eg select Country filtered by continent
    Quick response to Support Emails
    Cons Gets confusing when trying to add a secondary filter (eg filtering City by Continent and then by Country)
    Reviewed By Andy Dale
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    Reviewed by dalean108
    March 04, 2009
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    Cascaded Lookup web part from SharePoint Boost

    0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
    Is there any discount from SharePointBoost? I have not seen one, while Bamboosolutions and others alike have plenty of them.

    Product Reviews

    Pros Cross site lookup, making cascading more powerful.
    Not sure if this counts, but their service is pretty pleasent.
    Price is appealing.
    Cons lookup data from large number of lists is painfull.
    Version Reviewed 2.0
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    Reviewed by Tom Hasband
    November 30, 2010
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