Hi All,
I am in the process of moving many of our companies folders out of DropBox and into Sharepoint doc libraries.
As a way of getting around the 5000 item search limit I have setup a document centre, added a doc lib to it and uploaded some data only to find it still gives me the warning when going over 5000 items. As I understood it the use of a document centre get around this? What am I missing?
Thanks all.
The 5,000 item limit is a farm wide limitation. Document Centers still have to adhere to the 5,000 items in a view. However, the value of document centers is that a lot of things are already configured for you: Document Versions, Document IDs, Doc Sets, etc..
I suggest taking a look at this page https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manage-large-lists-and-libraries-in-sharepoint-b8588dae-9387-48c2-9248-c24122f07c59
Figure out if you can use metadata to classify your content. The real issue isn’t that you have more than 5,000 items. The real issue is that more than 5,000 items are being returned in each view. So see if you can filter out the items in your views to return less than 5,000.
