Folders in SharePoint Lists and Libraries

Tami Bolton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:06:00 GMT

Folders can be used for large list support.

But...

01. Folders organize content when a item is saved, rather than when it is displayed

02. Folders/subfolders make finding an item difficult

03. A folder obscures the number of items it contains until the Folder is opened

04. Sort, filter, group, and paginate can only be applied to items within one folder at a time or to the entire list

05. It is more difficult to move an item between two folders than to change the value of a property

06. A single list item can have multiple properties but cannot be presented in two folders

07. A list item can have a required property but a folder can never be required

08. The browser URL is limited to 255 characters; nested folders make the URL unnecessarily long

09. Properties on a folder cannot be used to sort, filter, group, or paginate list items within that folder

10. New columns are added to the list items within the folder but not the folder itself