# External Collection List Issue

**URL:** <https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-collection-list-issue/20412>\
**Category:** External Collections, Custom Actions & Collections\
**Created:** [December 3, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-collection-list-issue/20412 "2021-12-03T18:44:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![zakakatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9de0a6/32.png) [@zakakatz](https://forum.adalo.com/u/zakakatz)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/external-collection-list-issue/20412/1 "2021-12-03T18:44:57Z")

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Hi everyone,

Running into an issue where the “Avatar List” type does not work with external collections. Has anyone else run into this? Referencing the same external works fine with other list types, but for some reason, Avatar List it returns no items.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/adalo/original/2X/8/874e90cd3979ac4511c7ad8620ac713cdc54996e.jpeg)