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Mohsenhs
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Oct 08, 2020
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boundaries and limits for SharePoint Online regarding the number of records in a list

Hi there,    Based onhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/software-boundaries-and-limits List view threshold: 5000 Items:30M per list   I would like to know the difference betwee...
  • Andrew Hodges's avatar
    Oct 09, 2020

    Hi Mohsenhs 

     

    The List view threshold is how many items will be returned when opening a view in SharePoint. 

     

    For instance if there are 10,000 items and you have a view that shows all items, the view will only return 5,000 items and these could be an of the 10,000, its not in order as far as I have seen. 

     

    For sure you can have 15,000 items, just make sure any of your views and number of files in one folder do not exceed 5000 items. For example if you store 200,000 items in one document library in a folder structure then you will be able to navigate through the entire folder structure as long as one folder doesn't have 5000 items in it. 

     

    If you do go over the amount it will just tell you when you are trying to update certain settings but you won't need to get it unlocked.  Here is an article on what to do if you have over 5000 items in a view and get an error. 

     

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-large-lists-and-libraries-b8588dae-9387-48c2-9248-c24122f07c59?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

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