Tell me more ×  How can I access list that is located at the
root site from a sub site?  share|improve this question Can you
explain how you need to access it? I.e. in code, via rollup, OOB
webpart, etc.. –  Dave Wise Sep 19 '12 at 20:19 type its url in
the browser. –  Derek Gusoff Sep 19 '12 at 21:23 I wanted to
have a list on the root that several subsites could use the data
in that root list as look up values in subsite specific lists.
–  Jjp Sep 20 '12 at 12:24 add comment  2 Answers  up vote 1
down vote accepted  Using C#, dead simple:  SPWeb rootWeb =
SPContext.Current.Site.RootWeb; SPList targetList =
rootWeb.Lists["MyTargetListName"]; share|improve this answer
Thank you - but I need an out of the box solution or a solutions
that uses designer. –  Jjp Oct 3 '12 at 15:01 add comment  For
security reasons (and technical ones as well) SharePoint does
not support using lists outside of the current site as a lookup
list.  You could do one of the following:  1) Create a template
of the main list with data an