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User Activity limitations in Lists - what should I know?
Does anyone know how well Microsoft/SharePoint Lists handles multiple simultaneous users?
Working on a project that will see 10-20 staff members using a few different lists in a given SharePoint site. There is some concern about whether Lists can handle the load from multiple, simultaneous users.
For context, this won't be setup like a complex database for context. I'm 90% confident Lists can handle the workload but I won't know until we pilot it.
I'm currently planning to setup column indexing as a precaution. Any other suggestions or advice for setting up Lists for high workloads?
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atrain204 SharePoint will be able to handle it with no problems. However if you are using Power Apps as the front end as we currently are with a competition app which has 1200 current users and at least 50 of those are using it simultaneously, maybe more who knows, the caching issues are immense!
Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)- It's reassuring to hear that SharePoint can handle my use-case.
Do you know of a good way to measure a given List or site's workload? I've been pouring through MS documentation on throttling, limits and more to figure out how I can track and measure this during our pilot later this month.- SharePoint will be able to handle your load as long as you are using out of the box lists/libraries. Using SP list as backend for a PowerApps is different scenario.
Check out site analytics to measure sites usage data. It is available from the cog (gear) option in top right corner -> Site usage.
