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CirrusTech
Jun 11, 2024Copper Contributor
SharePoint list threshold limit
Hi We run an access database connected to SharePoint online lists. One of the lists has 16000 items and I need to add an additional field (type lookup) but when trying to add this get an error sayi...
kaaven
Jun 12, 2024Brass Contributor
SharePoint Lists can have 30 million objects (at the time of writing), the threshold is hard-coded for performance and can't be changed.
You shouldn't need to remove items to add a field, but limit the view by using filter should remove any errors when checking the list.
- helJul 10, 2025Copper Contributor
We have filtered all the views on the List and still getting the threshold error while applying the changes to the calculated field. We have about 22k items in the list.