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LincolnDeMaris
Microsoft
MicrosoftUpdate: Document Sets in Modern Document Libraries
I am pleased to announce some updates on the plan and timeline for improving the Document Set experience in modern document libraries.
In January, we communicated a March delivery date for thes...
LincolnDeMaris Michael_Silverstein
We are noticing a behaviour with Document Sets where we change the content type on a Document Set to folder so that we can use them as folder, but internally it remains a Document Set - meaning you can't create a document set inside that folder.
Looks like when a Document Set's content type is changed to Folder, not all internal metadata are reset, causing UI to treat the folder like a Document Set although it's no longer one!
- That appears to be by design. Document sets within document sets could lead to contradicting content type restruction and metadata inheritance rules. You can still create (sub-)folders within document sets, and the metadata wil inherit across these onto the items stored in (sub-)folders. Only expection (still by Nov 2023) is that enterprise keywords, if in use, do not seem to inherit at all. Probably because they are a 'special' kind of column with different behavior.
