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Anyone knowing more limitations, please let me know and I'll update this doc. If I miss a limitation you mention elsewhere, lemme know.
| Limit | R5 (LotusScript 4) | R6 |
| What is the maximum size of a database? | 64 GB (gigabyte) or the OS file system's limit (2 GB on some older UNIX platforms) | 64 GB (gigabyte) or the OS file system's limit (2 GB on some older UNIX platforms) |
What is the maximum size of plain text fields?
(What is the maximum size of a group Members field?) | 15KB per (summary) text field;
30KB of fields per document (storage); 15KB displayed in a view's column | 15KB per (summary) text field;
30KB of fields per document (storage); 15KB displayed in a view's column |
| What is the maximum size of a computed text field? | ?64,363 characters | ?64,363 characters |
| What is the maximum size of a single paragraph in a rich text field? | 64KB (this is approximately 35k of text, though) | 64KB (this is approximately 35k of text, though) |
| What is the maximum number of paragraph styles? | 64,000 unique paragraph styles in a single document | 64,000 unique paragraph styles in a single document |
| How many sublevels in a hierarchical view; how many documents at each level? | 31 levels; 300,000 documents | 31 levels; 300,000 documents |
| What is the maximum number of windows you can have open simultaneously? | limited by memory; 35(?) accessible from keyboard | limited by memory; 35(?) accessible from keyboard |
| How many characters are allowed in names for views, forms, and so on? | Database Title: 32
Filename: limited by OS's file system
Field names: 32
View names: 64
Form names: 32
Macro names: 32 | Database Title: 32
Filename: limited by OS's file system
Field names: 32
View names: 64
Form names: 32
Macro names: 32 |
| How many aliases are allowed for views? | Up to 130 characters for all view aliases per view, including vertical-bar separators ("|"), including the view name | Up to 130 characters for all view aliases per view, including vertical-bar separators ("|"), including the view name |
| What is the maximum size for Mail recipient names? | 2MB of recipient names (based on fully qualified names, for example, Les Kaplan @ Marketing). | 2MB of recipient names (based on fully qualified names, for example, Les Kaplan @ Marketing). |
| How many mail rules in a mail DB? | 50 | 100 |
| What's the maximum password length allowed on an ID? | 63 characters | 63 characters |
| 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. | ~ 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. |
| How many fields in a form? | 10MB memory (6MB memory for OS/2) | 10MB memory (6MB memory for OS/2) |
| columns in one table | 64 | 64 |
| rows in one table | 255 | 255 |
| views in a database | No limit; however, as the number of views increases, the length of time to display other views also increases | No limit; however, as the number of views increases, the length of time to display other views also increases |
| forms in a database | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| columns in a view | 289 ten-character columns; dependent upon # or characters per column | 289 ten-character columns; dependent upon # or characters per column |
| How wide can a column be (# of inches)? | ?15KB displayed in a view's column (5.0.3 release notes) | ?15KB displayed in a view's column (5.0.3 release notes) |
| What's the largest view column title allowed? | 50 characters | 80 characters |
| What is the total size of computable simple text fields? | 63K | 63K |
| How many paragraphs in a document? | 21,509 (19,004 for OS/2) | 21,509 (19,004 for OS/2) |
| What is the maximum size of a rich text field? | Limited only by available disk space up to 1GB | Limited only by available disk space up to 1GB |
| What is the maximum number of inserted page breaks? | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| How many documents can be imported into a view? | ?(the original (col. 2) has something wrong, syntactically, maybe it's)
Individual documents: up to 350K;
from a spreadsheet, 8192 rows;
5000 separate documents | ?(the original (col. 2) has something wrong, syntactically, maybe it's)
Individual documents: up to 350K;
from a spreadsheet, 8192 rows;
5000 separate documents |
| cascading views in a database | 200 | 200 |
| How many copies of a document can be printed at once? | 65,535 | 65,535 |
| What is the maximum value allowed in "Start page numbers at" field? | 65,535 | 65,535 |
| margin size (in inches) | 46 | 46 |
| page cropping size (in inches) | 46 | 46 |
| point size to select/print | 250 | 250 |
| maximum number of soft-deleted documents in a database | 1000  | 32,768 |
| documents in a view | Maximum of 128 GB for a view index.
(16 Mpage of B-tree space, 8kB/page)
Also limited by available disk space (2 GB on some UNIX platforms).
View containers in R5 databases (ODS 3.1 up) do not have a container size limit. The view size limit is now determined by the maximum number of pages that can be created which is 16,777,214. A page holds 8 KB so that means the maximum size for a view is 137,438,937,088 bytes (128 GB). | Maximum of 128 GB for a view index.
(16 Mpage of B-tree space, 8kB/page)
Also limited by available disk space (2 GB on some UNIX platforms).
View containers in R5 databases (ODS 3.1 up) do not have a container size limit. The view size limit is now determined by the maximum number of pages that can be created which is 16,777,214. A page holds 8 KB so that means the maximum size for a view is 137,438,937,088 bytes (128 GB). |
| What's the maximum number of profile documents allowed in a database? | 6000-6100 per database : s/w limitation | around 6000-6100 per database: s/w limitation |
| What is the maximum number of documents that can be exported to Tabular Text? | Limited only by available disk space | Limited only by available disk space |
| How many levels of responses will display in a view? | 31 levels of response to 1 main document | 31 levels of response to 1 main document |
| How many responses per parent document? | (bug:15,796 responses per document in R5 to 5.0.10) | ?? |
| What is the maximum number of entries in an Access Control List? | 950 names
(I don't know if this has changed at all) | 950 names
(I don't know if this has changed at all) |
| What is the maximum number of roles in an access control list? | 75 Roles | 75 Roles |
| What is the maximum number of ACL groups a user can be member of? | 4096 5.0.9 up (pre-5.0.9, a bug may crash server over 3000 groups) | 4096 |
| What is the maximum number of groups that can be nested? | 20 levels or up to 64k of group name and person name characters, whichever is lower (~30k of data using @UserNamesList or @UserRoles)
(in R4: 6 levels) | ?20 levels or up to 64k of group name and person name characters, whichever is lower (~30k of data using @UserNamesList or @UserRoles) |
| What is the maximum size of a single paragraph you can cut or copy to the Clipboard? | Unlimited (64K for UNIX) | Unlimited (64K for UNIX) |
| What is the maximum number of documents you can cut or copy to the clipboard? | 2335 (Win32) | 2335 (Win32) |
| What is the maximum number of users to have authorized passwords on a multiple password ID? | 8 users | 8 users |
| What's the maximum amount of storage that can be used for strings in a LotusScript module? | 2 GB or available memory. | 2 GB or available memory. |
| What's the maximum length of an environment variable value? | 255 characters | 255 characters |
| What's the maximum length of a string constant in @function formulas? | ~2k characters | ~2k characters |
| What's the maximum number of results that can be returned from a full text search | 4,999 | 4,999 |
| What's the largest URL HTTP will accept? | 1024 (2048 5.0.10 up) | 2048 (?) |
| What's the largest richtext field HTTP will update? | ~64k? | ~64k? |
| What's the maximum size of variable-length strings in a LotusScript module? | 2 GB (1 GB of characters) per module, or available memory. | 2 GB (1 GB of characters) per module, or available memory. |
| How many variable-length strings can be defined in LotusScript? | Limited by available memory and module definitions. Can be limited by symbol table to 64k of symbol names per module. | Limited by available memory and module definitions. Can be limited by symbol table to 64k of symbol names per module. |
| What's the maximum size of fixed-length strings in LotusScript? | 64k (this is a BASIC language limitation) | 64k (this is a BASIC language limitation) |
| What's the maximum length of a string literal in LotusScript? | 32k (16k characters) (this is a BASIC language limitation) | 32k (16k characters) (this is a BASIC language limitation) |
| What's the maximum line length of a line written by LotusScript Write statement? | 255 characters | 255 characters |
| How many characters can be in path in MkDir, RmDir, or ChDir statement? | 128. This includes the drive specifier, if any. | 128. This includes the drive specifier, if any. |
| How many items can be in a Print, Write, or Input statement? | 255 | 255 |
| What's the maximum recLen in Open statement? | 32767 | 32767 |
| How many symbols can LotusScript handle? | 64k of text in symbol names | 64k of text in symbol names |
| How many data elements can be in a LotusScript array? | Determined by memory available for data, and by the storage size of each element of the array, which varies with the array data type. For example, a Long one-dimensional fixed array declared in type scope can have 16,128 elements. (The total storage size available for fixed-size data in module scope is 64K bytes, and a Long element requires 4 bytes for storage.) | Determined by memory available for data, and by the storage size of each element of the array, which varies with the array data type. For example, a Long one-dimensional fixed array declared in type scope can have 16,128 elements. (The total storage size available for fixed-size data in module scope is 64K bytes, and a Long element requires 4 bytes for storage.) |
| What's the maximum size of a LotusScript executable module's code? | limited by available memory; 64k of source without LSS include files | limited by available memory; 64k of source without LSS include files |
| How many outline entries can an outline have? | ~21,000 entries | ~21,000 entries |
| How long can a remote-console command be, and still display properly in Administrator? | 77 characters. Some commands may handle more; others don't. The command itself is neither displayed nor logged as more than 77 characters. | More than 77 characters (documented as "addressed" in K-Base, but no new maximum value is documented). |