Table of Notes® and Domino® known limits

The following table summarizes the known maximum limits of various Notes® and Domino® features.

Item

Maximum limit

Database size

The maximum OS file size limit -- (up to 64GB)

Text field size

32KB (storage); 32KB displayed in a view's column

Rich text field size

Limited only by available disk space up to 1GB

Response levels in a hierarchical view; number of documents per level

31 levels; 300,000 documents

Characters in names

Database Title: 96 bytes

Filenames: On Windows and UNIX platforms minimum of 255 and/or OS limits; on local Macintosh workstation 31

Field names: 32 characters (32 bytes in SBCS, 64 bytes in DBCS)

View names: 63 bytes per level, 127 total including one separator

Form names: 63 bytes per level, 127 total including one separator

Agent names: 63 bytes per level, 127 total including one separator

Fields in a database

~ 3000 (limited to ~ 64K total length for all field names). You can enable the database property "Allow more fields in database" to get up to 22,893 uniquely-named fields in the database.

Columns in a table

64

Rows in a table

255

Views in a database

No limit; however, as the number of views increases, the length of time to display other views also increases

Forms in a database

Limited only by database size.

Columns in a view

289 ten-character columns; dependent upon # or characters per column

Documents imported into a view

Documents totaling at least 350K

Cascading views in a database

200

Margin size (in inches)

46

Page cropping size (in inches)

46

Point size to select or print

250

Documents in a view

Up to the maximum size of the database

Formula language code can be placed in a view

64KB

Documents that can be exported to tabular text

Limited only by available disk space

Entries in an Access Control List (ACL)

~950 names (ACL size is limited to 32767 bytes)

Roles in an Access Control List

75 Roles

ID password length

63 characters

Authorized users on a multiple password ID

8 users

Outline entries in an outline

~21,000 entries

Length limit for a macro language string literal

2048 bytes

Note: Strings in formula language are represented internally in the LMBCS character set, which uses one byte for an ASCII character, but may require up to 4 bytes for some non-ASCII characters.

Notes® API objects when using Java

~104,800