Hi
I have a large list having more than 5000 items (Say 'Main' List). There is a 'Child' list having a lookup column to the 'Main'. And once we try to add/edit items, the form comes up with 'This is a lookup column that displays data from another list that currently exceeds the List View Threshold defined by the administrator (5000).'
Now I understand we can change this throttle in Central Admin(increase from 5000 to say 50,000) but I would really like not to change that limit (SQL Table locking etc etc.). My simple and probably naive question is how SharePoint architects currently create solutions with look up functionality? I can probably think of many business reasons even normalized tables having more than 5000 records and if a lookup is required from it, we are really hitting a dead end.
Organizing items in folders does not help as even though it works around threshold limit on views, it doesn't while having a look up (as this queries everything in the parent list) on New/Edit forms.
Please suggest.
Thanks