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Justin Liu
Aug 17, 2016MVP
SharePoint Online list view threshold question
Hi currently I faced a problem that one of document library with a lot of content(20,000+) exceed the view threshold and as a result I can not export the list as a template(even not check the includ...
Mike Platvoet
Aug 17, 2016Iron Contributor
As far as I know, there is no way to work around it other than to bring down the number of items per view. In other words, you should reorganize your library/list in such a way that there are less than 5000 items in it.
Take a look at this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-large-lists-and-libraries-in-Office-365-b4038448-ec0e-49b7-b853-679d3d8fb784?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
What you basically can do is reorganize your library. A nice post with some options to do so can be found here;
http://sharepointmaven.com/how-to-overcome-sharepoint-5000-item-limit-threshold/