Lists

Lists are used to give user list of values to choose from for field value. Lists are simple and don’t have relationship to other lists. In order to make selections that affect to later list selections see Data driven metagroup in Meta groups

There are different types of lists available

• Basic list is based on manually given values

• Data driven list is based on values coming from Data sources

• SharePoint term set is based on terms provided by SharePoint term store

Lists are used in in metafield types:

• combobox

• editable combobox

Inside portal navigate to Data > Lists

Basic list

1. Press New-button and select List to open Create list -panel

2. Fill-in fields

3. Press Create-button to create and save new list

Create list -panel

• Display name is used only in portal to identify list

• Languages is used to select languages that list is available

• Sort items alphabetically when selected list items are sorted alphabetically otherwise list items are shown in same order than in portal

For each list row give values shown for end user. To get new row, press +-button

Data driven list

Values to data driven lists come from Data sources. User can choose what data source columns are used as key and display name for list items

Create list -panel

• Display name is used only in portal to identify list

• Languages is used to select languages that list is available

• Data source provides rows for list

• Columns

  • Id columns is required and used only internally to identify each list row

  • Language specific columns

SharePoint term set

Follow guide SharePoint term set as list