If you plan to create several hundred or several thousand folders in SmartVault, SmartVault recommends that you do not put more than 100 folders in a vault. If you put more than 100 folders in a vault, displaying the list of folders and scrolling through the list of folders may take longer than you would like.

Instead, consider logically grouping large numbers of folders across a few vaults.

For example, you may want to create alphabetical groupings, similar to the groupings you might find in a physical file cabinet. In this scenario, if you have hundreds of clients and you want to create one or more folders for each clients, consider the following vault and folder structure:

For more examples of how you might organize your vault and folder structure when you have large numbers of documents, see “Examples of Vault and Folder Structures” .