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AI-generatedSharePoint Online List View Threshold Error: Why Does Client‑Side Pagination Fail to Bypass the 5,000‑Item Limit?
Goal Determine why a query that uses client‑side pagination ($top/$skiptoken) still triggers the “The request failed due to exceeding the list view threshold of 5,000 items” error in a production SharePoint Online tenant, while the same query succeeds against a local test list of <1,000 items. Constraints & Uncertainty The threshold is enforced server
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