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MicrosoftUpdate: Document Sets in Modern Document Libraries
@osborn_amy I loved the Welcome Page - we used it to great effect on our last project. I'm just setting up a new project and was dismayed to see the Welcome Page isn't part of the new experience - I'm advising all users to click on the 'Return to Classic Experience', but frankly that's a nuisance, because you then have to click out of the document set and then back in to get the welcome page to show. Not sure what the thinking was on this, but I think it was deeply flawed.
I also find the custom Welcome Page very useful to be able to separate the document sets' contents per content type: 1 view for emails, 1 view for invoices and 1 for any other content type, all stacked below each other. It doesn't make sense to have columns 'To', 'Subject' and 'From' visible in a document set that contains both emails and other types of content - likewise, it doesn't make sense to have a column 'Amount' (with total) visible in a document set that contains invoices next to other content types.
Sure, you could setup specific views for each content type, but using 3 views requires 2 additional steps for the user just to get an overview.
I'm crossing fingers that this functionality would be made available in the modern layout as well.
Zenlord
Agreed, not having the Welcome Page in a document set is a dealbreaker. I can already see a case where users are looking for the metadata on the welcome page and forget to open the "details pane" to view the info. In the end, it might be easier to create a custom Power App with a parent-child form layout.
