Limits of Lotus Notes

Limitations of IBM® Lotus Notes® are listed in the following table.

Table 1. Limits of Lotus Notes
Item	Limit
Maximum size of a Notes® application	The maximum OS file size limit (up to 64GB)
Maximum size of text fields	32KB (storage); 32KB displayed in a view's column
Maximum size of a rich text field	Limited only by available disk space up to 1GB
Maximum size of a single paragraph in a rich text field	64KB
Maximum amount of text (Summary) data per document	64KB
Levels of responses in a hierarchical view; number of documents at each level	31 levels; 300,000 documents
Number of columns that can be included in one table	64 `nozeros`
Number of rows that can be included in one table	255 `nozeros`
Number of views that can be added to a Notes application	No limit; however, as the number of views increases, the length of time to display other views also increases
Number of columns allowed in a view	289 ten-character columns; dependent upon # or characters per column
Number of documents that can be imported into a view	Documents totaling at least 350K
Number of cascading views are allowed in a Notes application?	200
Maximum value (in inches) you can enter for margin size	22.75 `nozeros`
Maximum value (in inches) you can enter for page size cropping	46 `nozeros`
Maximum point size you can select/print	250 `nozeros`
Number of documents are allowed in one view	Up to the size of the Notes application, with a maximum of 64GB
Maximum number of documents that can be exported to Tabular Text	Limited only by available disk space
Maximum number of entries in an Access Control List	Approximately 950 names (total ACL size is limited to 32767 bytes)
Maximum number of roles in an Access Control List	75 Roles
Maximum password length allowed on an ID	64 bytes (63 characters for single-byte character sets but only 21 characters for some double-byte languages)
Maximum number of contacts allowed in a group in Contacts	32K of names in the Members text field
Maximum number of recipients in a single mail message	For individual names and private groups which expand locally, 15KB; for public groups which expand on a server, 5MB