Document Library - Lookup feature

[bluke]

I am very new to SharePoint. We are planning to use SharePoint Services to setup a site.

My question... I am trying to add a column to a document library that will pull information via a lookup. I am trying to have columns (metadata associated with each document) that will depend on different lists.

In the documentation, it says that "Lookup" should be one of the options for type of column. When I look at the options for type, I have every option -except- "Lookup". Where is it?

 

[cdipaolo]

Just to make sure, you see something like the following but "lookup" is not included?
Single line of text
Multiple lines of text
Choice (menu to choose from)
Number (1, 1.0, 100)
Currency ($, ¥, £)
Date and Time
Lookup (information already on this site)
Yes/No (check box)
Hyperlink or Picture
Calculated (calculation based on other columns)

I'm not an expert, but the only thing I can think of is that you don't have any other columns on the site yet that contains information? I haven't tried it, but you might want to create a list with one column and put some data in it and see if then your Lookup type shows up?

 

[bluke]

Thanks for the reply. I discovered it was a quite simple error.

I had created a column already and when I went back to EDIT that column, the lookup option was not present. For whatever reason. If I added a NEW column, all the options including lookup were indeed present as they should be.

So, just remember.. when editing a column, one is not seeing the entire option set.