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CuriousProjectUser
Nov 09, 2022Brass Contributor
Limit of people picker columns in SharePoint Online list
Dear all, we're planning to create a list in SharePoint Online with around 40 columns of type "Person or Group" and some of type "Choice" and "Managed Metadata". On the web I found contradicting ...
CuriousProjectUser
Nov 10, 2022Brass Contributor
Dear Ganesh,
i can confirm the view limit by observation within a test scenario: created a list with 20 people picker columns. Only 12 of those can be included within one view. However, in another view i can include a different subset of those 20 pp columns without any issues.
We can adapt to the view limit with use case specific views. However, is there some information/documentation on alist limit? (i.e. number of columns within a list)? Or can a view be considered as a database query which is limited for performance reasons, whereas the database itself (here the list) has a much higher threshold?
Kind regards
Philipp
i can confirm the view limit by observation within a test scenario: created a list with 20 people picker columns. Only 12 of those can be included within one view. However, in another view i can include a different subset of those 20 pp columns without any issues.
We can adapt to the view limit with use case specific views. However, is there some information/documentation on alist limit? (i.e. number of columns within a list)? Or can a view be considered as a database query which is limited for performance reasons, whereas the database itself (here the list) has a much higher threshold?
Kind regards
Philipp
ganeshsanap
Nov 10, 2022MVP
CuriousProjectUser I don't think there is any hard coded limit for number of lookup / people columns in a SharePoint list.
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