Comments on: Traversing SharePoint List Folder Hierarchies

By: MrOsmose

MrOsmose — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:33:54 +0000

@Andreas : A lot of people don’t like folders… But sometimes you can’t avoid them : when a company use SharePoint to store a really large amount of items (sometimes more than 60.000 items) lists performance tends to get really bad.

MS itself suggests that, for lists that are really often accessed, you shouldn’t have more than 2000 items in the same “containers” (that is, a specific folder)

So what can we do when we used to have large lists, with a lot of specific views to help people find what they need, without calling too many items at a time, than, when upgrading to 2010, MS itself tells us : “We can’t assure you that your migration will success if you’ve got more than 5000 items per folder. This is our max limit, please folder your items or delete some of them”

We’re currently working on findong workaround for this, but it seems that we’ll still have to go on foldering some of our lists.

@=8)-DX : Thanks for your Move Item solutions !!! it helped me a lot. This seems to be the only way to keep everything as it is (that is “created”, “created by”, “modified”, “modified by” and GUID !! )

@Keith : Thanks for your post a lot !!

By: Keith Richie

Keith Richie — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:30:09 +0000

Andreas, afaik…this is still valid for 2010.

By: Andreas - SharePoint Tutorial

Andreas - SharePoint Tutorial — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:09:54 +0000

Using folders in lists or libraries is unfortunately a bad habit but it occurs… therefore thank you very much for your explanation.

Do you know if this methods are still valid for SharePoint 2010 or is there an easier way to iterate through folders in lists and libraries?

Andreas

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By: Bonnie Truax

Bonnie Truax — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:02:53 +0000

Personally, using folders for document navigation limits flexibility. I prefer using tags, then creating views for the appearance of folders. Then you can have the same items appear in multiple “folders (views)”

I only use folders for security. Then use “show all items without folders” for all my views. If we have line items or documents that only a certain group should see they are added to the folders that set the security. Then everyone can look at the same view, but only see the items they have access to.

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Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:55:16 +0000

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By: HSarioglu

HSarioglu — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:53:03 +0000

Thanks a lot. “Moving SPListItem” solution is wonderful. Thanks again.

By: SharePoint Buzz

SharePoint Buzz — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:44:23 +0000

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By: Keith Richie

Keith Richie — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:10:09 +0000

is that 3000 folders at the same level?

By: PrashanthSpark

PrashanthSpark — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:41:47 +0000

I have folders around 3000 in my shared document library & it seems very slow when we use via webservice…

how can we tune up this folders in sharepoint to be fast response.

performance is needed right now!

i had created webservice to get site defention which retrives all folders & path enumerating.