Provide list data to business data columns in a different site

Hi All

I'm looking to find a way to share list data across sites, so that the data is available in lookup columns. The current lookup column type only allows lookup from lists in the same site - could the BDC be used to access data in lists in other sites via the Sharepoint web services? then I can make use of the new Business Data column to achieve this. Has anyone done this and could post a copy of the application deifnition they used?

cheers

[471 byte] By [DarenColes] at [2008-1-2]
# 1
Type http://<yoursharepointsite>/_vti_bin/lists.asmx?op=GetListItems to see the request and response structure, then construct a BDC to access this. This is not easy, but should be the right direction if you want to achieve what you want to do.
FrankChiang at 2007-9-13 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Business Data Catalog...
# 2
Did this by writing a custom web service, I didn't fancy my chances of writing an app def to talk to the standard MOSS web services with the responses as complicated as they are
DarenColes at 2007-9-13 > top of Msdn Tech,SharePoint Products and Technologies,SharePoint - Business Data Catalog...

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