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title: Picklist Considerations for Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter
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# Picklist Considerations for Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter

Special behaviors and limitations apply to picklist and multi-select picklist fields on external objects.

### Required Editions

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          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience (not for high-data-volume
            external objects)</td>

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            <p>Available in: <strong>Developer</strong> Edition</p>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available for an extra cost
              in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, and <strong>Unlimited</strong>
              Editions</p>
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- You can edit picklist values on external objects, but changes to fields on the provider org aren’t automatically reflected in the subscriber org. To reflect changes on the subscriber org, resync the external object or manually update the picklist values on the external object.
    
    If you don’t resync or update the picklist values on the external object:
    
    - When an active picklist value is added to the provider org, the subscriber org doesn’t display it as an available picklist value on external object records.
    - When an active picklist value is deleted from or made inactive on a restricted picklist on the provider org, the subscriber org can’t create or edit external object records with that value.
- Global picklist value sets aren’t synced. If a provider org’s picklist field uses a global picklist value set, syncing creates a local picklist field on the subscriber org. A local picklist field has its own set of values.
- Inactive picklist values aren’t synced. If the subscriber org accesses an external object record that contains an inactive picklist value, the inactive value is added to the picklist field on the external object.
- Syncing converts restricted picklists on the provider org into unrestricted picklists on the subscriber org’s external objects.
- We recommend having only unrestricted picklists on external objects, even when they’re associated with restricted picklists on the provider org. Restricted picklists on the provider org block unapproved values from the subscriber org, eliminating the need to restrict picklists on external objects.

#### See Also

- [Sync Considerations for Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_considerations_sync.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "When you validate and sync an external data source of type Salesforce Connect: Cross-Org, some special behaviors and limitations apply.")
- [Subscriber and Provider Orgs in Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_subscriber_provider.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "The provider org stores the data that the subscriber org accesses.")
- [Considerations for Salesforce Connect—Cross-Org Adapter](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.xorg_considerations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Understand the special behaviors, limits, and recommendations for using the cross-org adapter for Salesforce Connect.")
- [Picklist Considerations for Salesforce Connect OData Adapters](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.odata_considerations_picklist.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Special behaviors and limitations apply to picklist fields on external objects for OData 2.0, 4.0, and 4.01 adapters.")