Hi,
I'm creating a list which - for new entries - needs to include a dropdown choice as a lookup from a different list.
However, I need these values to be FILTERED to only show a subset of entries.
My Lookup List :-
Project Title (Single Line of Text)
Project Manager (Person or Group Field) ... which is set to the person on the Tenancy (I'm on 365) that owns the project.
Now .. in my new list - I want to allow my users to create new "entries" and have them pick the associated project from the lookup. But I only want to show those entries where the Project Manager is the current user. (You'd think this would be basic / standard functionality wouldn't you?? ... to lookup from a view rather than a list).
I cannot find a way to do this in Config. I've tried creating a new calculated column in my lookup list which has :
=IF(CalculatedOwner = [Me], [Project Title],"") ... so and then tried using that as my lookup column, but sharepoint complains that the use of [Me], [Today] and other such "volatile" values is not permitted.
(CalculatedOwner) is another column I've added which is set on a workflow after the project manager is set to write and store the full identity of the project owner in text format.
I've also tried the "[Me] trick" by creating a new column called "Me" .... then setting the calculated value formula - and removing the original "Me" column .... but this only updates / is set when the record is MODIFIED so the net result is - it doesn't work.
Is there a way to do what I want to achieve or should I resort to JavaScript in a CEWP to programatically populate the dropdown???
Thanks
Steve