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LincolnDeMaris
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Apr 17, 2019

Update: 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...
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Heather P
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May 28, 2019

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.

 

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Lanceter
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May 29, 2019
After you add the doc set based content type to a library it takes a while for library settings to be fully updated, and for the content types included in the document set to be available via the New button. Until then you see the default New menu content types. It took about 40 minutes for this to update.

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