SharePoint Lists and AutoSave feature

Question

I am generating a new Microsoft Sharepoint List and I have several questions. I think I will make individual posts here on learn.microsoft.com where each post addresses an individual question or issue. This post, I intend, will address the auto-save issue and feature.

As I add content to my Microsoft List, is the data automatically saved?

I assume that there might be some way to automatically add a large number of virtually blank rows with an auto-incrementing index (aka title) column. But I thought it would save time to just record and run a macro script to add a large number of rows. I did this on my work laptop which I took home to continue the operation. To my disappointment, when I went to work and rebooted my laptop computer and opened this list, the large number of added rows were not there.

Why is this?

Isn't there some sort of automatic save mechanism at play?

Answer 1

Hi @William Thompson,

SharePoint has a list view threshold which is configured at 5000 items. Is it possible that your large number of added rows has exceeded 5000 so that they are not displayed in the list?

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