SharePoint 2010 Workflow history error: “The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator.”
This is an interesting error message. When trying to see the workflow history of a SharePoint 2010 custom workflow I get the following error message: SharePoint 2010 Workflow history error: "The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator." What was strange was that other workflow histories worked fine, so I went down the path of finding out where the limit was. My first stop was the "hidden" SharePoint history list. There is a good post on this here: http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=111 So I looked at my list by appending the /yoursite/lists/workflow%20history I added a count column to one of the fields, and it said 12,500. I knew that wasn't right, so it must be a limit being returned somewhere. I needed to go deeper. I loaded SharePoint 2010 manager from Codeplex onto the server and found that my top secret workflow history list [...]