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.

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