SP2013 List view threshold changed

Question

I am migrating a site from SP2010 to SP2013.

In the old farm there is a document library contain 11,000 pages. About a year ago when user browse the old farm site the error "The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator. " show up. To get around the issue, developer put the pages within subfolders. Problem was solved.

However, when I migrate the site to SP2013 farm. Although all pages still sit within subfolders, I get the "exceeds the list view threshold" error.

1. May I know whether subfolder items have been counted towards this threshold now?
2. Any easy workaround?

Thank you.

Answer 1

1. The number of items in a folder needs to be less or equal to the list view threshold.
   If a list/library has 4000 items and a folder with 3000 items, both the folder view and the root folder view will work for a list view threshold of 5000. However, if the folder or root folder grows to have more than 5000 items, it will stop displaying items in the default view.

2. The easiest and quickest solution is to change the list view threshold for the period you migrate the site, then change it back to default. To do this follow the steps:

   • go to your SP2013 Farm's Central Administration
   • go to the "Manage Web Applications" under the "Application Management" section
   • select the "Web Application" where you migrate the site
   • click the "General Settings" dropdown and select "Resources Throttling"
   • change the "List View Threshold" to 12000 if your library has 11000 pages
   • migrate your site from SP2010 to SP2013
   • change the "List View Threshold" back to 5000.
     
     
     

SharePoint 2013 works the same as 2010 in terms of list view threshold: you can use folders and/or views filtered on indexed columns to access items in a list/library with more than 5000 of items.

When you try to add/delete an entire list/library that has more than 5000 items, then the operation fails. The solutions here are:

• see what I've said at point 2. above
• enable the "Daily Time Window for Large Queries" option located in the same place as the "List View Threshold". This enables you to get around the "List View Threshold" during the time window you set, which could be sometime at 23:00 when nobody accesses SharePoint, for example. You can migrate your site during that time window.

Answer 2

No folder's item not count towards the list view threshold.

Could you please check how many items return in the current view?

Workaround for this kind of situation,

Please use the index column and filter in your views.