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