Hi All,

I am new to SharePoint search. My lists have associations via look-up columns. I want to understand if I crawl these lists and search for the master list using REST API will I get results from dependent list automatically or I will have to make separate REST calls to get related results.

Thanks.

Hi,

From your description, my understanding is that you have question about search REST API.

You could not get related results with search REST API. If you want to get related result by using REST API to get related result with the list name. you could refer to this article:

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/119833/how-to-use-sharepoint-2013-rest-service-to-retrieve-data-from-lookup-field

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/91682/help-with-getting-the-value-of-a-look-up-field.

In my case, I get the list name with this URL:

http://sp/sites/sharepoint2013/_api/web/lists/getByTitle('listBBBB')/items?$select=lookup/Title&$expand=lookup

you could refer to this screenshot below:

Then I get related result with URL:

http://sp/sites/sharepoint2013/_api/web/lists/getbytitle('ListA')/items

You could learn more about search REST API by referring to this article:

SharePoint Search REST API overview

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj163876.aspx.

In addition, I recommend that you could accomplish your requirement with C# code, you could refer to this article:

http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/90623/how-to-find-lookup-field-list-using-programmatically.