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MicrosoftUpdate: Document Sets in Modern Document Libraries
lotz-hellerau and LincolnDeMaris
Another major issue:
If you had content types that were part of a document set, the modern experience has massively messed that up. Now the library and the document set seem to share content types. Within the document set if you go to New, the default is to re-add the document set content type, not other content types defined within a document set.
Another potential issue - in my case, the info panel doesn't display the MetaData associated with the Document Sets. I can see where the data is supposed to be but the area is just empty. These document sets do have a great deal of MetaData associated with them, but the info always displayed in classic just fine. It's not a timing issue either as I have given the pages several minutes to load.
rodieremix It's because the metadata/properties panel no longer shows up within the document set. It only shows up back at the library level. Which is a whole new thing for users who are used to Editing properties from within the document set. So essentially to see/edit the properties of your document set, you have to go back to the library level and select the document set [folder] to get the info panel.
LincolnDeMarisHi all, I'm sorry to hear that many of you are having problems with document sets in modern.
- Move To/Copy To on document sets. The change that's rolling out does not enable any new move to/copy to scenarios on document sets. We hear this feedback and this is near the top of our backlog to address.
- Opening in a new tab. Before this change, document sets would open in a new tab in classic mode. After this change, they open in the same tab in modern mode. If folks are seeing document sets opening in modern mode in a new tab, that's very surprising - let us know for sure that the new tab behavior is indeed the modern document set view (as pictured at the top of this thread) and we'll look into this.
- Document set metadata. Document set metadata should be appearing in the details pane when inside the document set. If this is not happening, there's a bug we need to fix. If this is happening in your environment, please message me with the field types inside the document set content type and we'll try to reproduce, although your best and fastest recourse might be calling support.
- Document set views and content types. Document set views and content types as configured inside the document set content type should be respected. If this is not happening, we have a bug that we need to reproduce. Please send me more information in a private message - like what views and/or content types are present in the document set content type settings. A screenshot of the settings page could work wonders.
Very helpful!.
but can you please let us know how to switch a docsets to open in same Window and not as new tab?
I did played in view to add various Names fields. I found out you can replace in the URL ending parameter id with the docset title, but I do not want users to do it, it should be automatically.
Can you please let us know what is the view setup to open in same tab and not switching to a classic page view?
- Opening in a new tab. Before this change, document sets would open in a new tab in classic mode. After this change, they open in the same tab in modern mode. If folks are seeing document sets opening in modern mode in a new tab, that's very surprising - let us know for sure that the new tab behavior is indeed the modern document set view (as pictured at the top of this thread) and we'll look into this.
