IBM DOMINO LOTUS LIMITS

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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 (R5 to 8.5)

How many characters are allowed in names for views, forms, and so on?

Database Title: 32 (R5)
Filename: limited by OS's file system
Field names: 32
View names: 64
Folder names: 64
Form names: 32
Macro names: 32

Database Title: 96 (ND6 to 8.5)
Filename: limited by OS's file system
Field names: 32
View names: 64
Folder names: 64
Form names: 32
Macro names: 32
ACL entry: 255

How many characters are allowed in parts of canonical names?

Common name (CN): 80 (R5 to 8.5)
Organizational unit (OU) name: 32
Organization (O) name: 3 (min) to 62 (max), or 2 (min) if you include Country code
Country code (C): 2 (or 0 since it is optional)

How many characters are allowed in various administrative names?

Domain name: 31 (R5 to 8.5)
Notes named network: 31
Server name: 79
User name: 79
Group name: 62
Port: No maximum
Most are the same between R5 and ND6. Not sure whether Organization name difference is real or a documentation error.

How many characters can be in path in MkDir, RmDir, or ChDir statement?

128 (R5 to 8.5)

How many characters in a string to be abstracted

64,994 bytes (ND6 to 8.5)

How many copies of a document can be printed at once?

65,535 copies (R5 to 8.5)

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.) (R5 to 8.5)

How many documents at each level in a hierarchical view?

300,000 documents (R5 to 8.5)

How many documents can be imported into a view?

Individual documents: up to 350K; (R5 to 8.5)
from a spreadsheet, 8192 rows;
5000 separate documents

How many fields in a form?

6MB memory for OS/2 (R5)
10MB memory for all other platforms
memory space is allotted, so more short field names or fewer long names

10MB memory space allotted (more short field names, fewer long names) (ND6 to 8.5)

How many items can be in a Print, Write, or Input statement?

255 items (R5 to 8.5)

How many levels of responses will display in a view?

31 levels of response to 1 main document (R5 to 8.5)

How many mail rules in a mail DB?

50 mail rules (R5)

100 mail rules (ND6 to 8.5)

How many new documents can be created per second before modification dates skew into future?

48 new documents per second (ND7 to 8.5)

How many outline entries can an outline have?

~21,000 entries (R5 to 8.5)

How many paragraphs in a document?

19,004 paragraphs for OS/2 (R5)
21,509 paragraphs for other platforms

21,509 paragraphs for all platforms (ND6 to 8.5)

How many responses per parent document?

15,796 responses per document (due to bug) (R5)

300,000 documents (ND6 to 8.5)

How many sublevels in a hierarchical view?

31 levels (R5 to 8.5)

How many symbols can LotusScript handle?

64k of text in symbol names (R5 to 8.5)

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. (R5 to 8.5)

How wide can a column be (# of inches)?

20 inches (maximum width of table, so this would be with no borders) (R5 to 8.5)

margin size (in inches)

46 (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum cascading views in a database

200 levels (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum columns in a view?

289 ten-character columns; dependent upon # or characters per column (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum individual reader names/group names in a single document?

2005 names (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum number of ACL groups a user can be member of?

Up to 5.0.8: 3000 (due to bug causing server crash) (R5)
5.0.9 and higher: 4096

4096 (ND6 to 8.5)

Maximum number of characters in a remote-console command to 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. (R5)

More than 77 characters (documented as "addressed" in K-Base, but no new maximum value is documented). (ND6 to 8.5)

Maximum number of columns in one table

64 (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum number of documents in a view

Maximum of 128 GB for a view index. (R5 to 8.5)
(16 M page of B-tree space, 8kB/page)
Also limited by available disk space (2 GB on some UNIX platforms)

Maximum number of 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. (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum number of forms in a database

Unlimited (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum number of other calendars you can add in Show Calendars pane?

25 other calendars (ND7 to 8.5)

Maximum number of rows in one table

255 (R5 to 8.5)

maximum number of soft-deleted documents in a database

1000 (R5)

32,768 (ND6 to 8.5)

Maximum size for Mail recipient names in a single mail message?

For individual names and private groups which expand locally: 15KB (R5 to 6.5)
For public groups which expand on a server: 2MB

For individual names and private groups which expand locally: 15KB (ND7 to 8.5)
For public groups which expand on a server: 5MB

Maximum size of a single paragraph in rich text

64KB (approximately 35k of text) (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum size of a text list?

60K bytes (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum size of all summary fields in a document combined?

64KB of summary data per document (R5 to 8.5)

Maximum size of plain text fields?

15KB per (summary) text field (R5 to 8.5)
64KB per (non-summary) text field
30KB of fields per document (storage)
15KB displayed in a view's column

min/max width of a table cell set through API

0.001" minimum, but less than 0.028 messes with borders (R5 to 8.5)
22.755" maximum

min/max width of a table cell set through Designer

0.125" (0.318cm) minimum (R5 to 8.5)
22.75" (57.785cm) maximum

nested table depth

8 nestings (R5 to 8.5)

page cropping size (in inches)

46 (R5 to 8.5)

point size to select/print

250 (R5 to 8.5)

views in a database

No limit; however, as the number of views increases, the length of time to display other views also increases (R5 to 8.5)

What's the largest rich text field HTTP will update?

~64k? (R5 to 8.5)

What's the largest URL HTTP will accept?

1024 (2048 5.0.10 up) (R5)

2048 (limit can be lowered with server setting) (ND6 to 8.5)

What's the largest view column title allowed?

50 characters (R5)

80 characters (ND6 to 8.5)

What's the maximum amount of storage that can be used for strings in a LotusScript module?

2 GB or available memory. (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum length of a string constant in @function formulas?

2048 bytes (not byes - click on symbol for details) (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum length of a string literal in LotusScript?

32k (16k characters) (this is a BASIC language limitation) (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum length of an environment variable value?

255 characters (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum line length of a line written by LotusScript Write statement?

255 characters (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum number of profile documents allowed in a database?

6000-6100 per database (R5)

around 6000-6100 per database: s/w limitation (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum number of results that can be returned from a full text search

4,999 (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum password length allowed on an ID?

63 characters (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum recLen in Open statement?

32767 (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum size of a LotusScript executable module's code?

limited by available memory; 64k of source without LSS include files (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum size of fixed-length strings in LotusScript?

64k (this is a BASIC language limitation) (R5 to 8.5)

What's the maximum size of variable-length strings in a LotusScript module?

2 GB (1 GB of characters) per module, or available memory. (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum length of a role name in an ACL?

15 characters (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of windows you can have open simultaneously?

limited by memory; 35(?) accessible from keyboard (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of documents that can be exported to Tabular Text?

Limited only by available disk space (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of documents that can be selected when using the 'Archive Selected Documents' option?

(R5)

The limit appears to be 2047, according to (ND6 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of documents you can cut or copy to the clipboard?

2335 (Win32) (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of entries in an Access Control List?

Approx: 950 names (R5 to 8.5)

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) (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of inserted page breaks?

19,004 page breaks for OS/2 (R5)
21,509 page breaks for other platforms because each takes a paragraph

21,509 because each takes a paragraph (ND6 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of paragraph styles?

64,000 unique paragraph styles in a single document (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of roles in an access control list?

75 Roles (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum number of users to have authorized passwords on a multiple password ID?

8 users (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum size of a computed text field?

64,363 characters (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum size of a database?

64 GB (gigabyte) or the OS file system's limit (R5)
2GB on Macintosh

64GB or OS file system limit (see notes) (ND6 to 8.5)

What is the maximum size of a List in LotusScript?

Limited by available memory (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum size of a rich text field?

Limited only by available disk space up to 1GB (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum size of a single paragraph you can cut or copy to the Clipboard?

Unlimited (64K for UNIX) (R5 to 8.5)

What is the maximum value allowed in "Start page numbers at" field?

65,535 (R5 to 8.5)

What is the total size of computable simple text fields?

63K (R5 to 8.5)