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Brent Ellis
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Jul 22, 2016
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What is the plan for "modern" Document Sets?

So it's been asked many times in the old network and never answered, so want to ask it here in the hopes that people are actually thinking about this.   What is the plan for "modern" Document Sets ...
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  • Chris McNulty's avatar
    Chris McNulty
    Feb 12, 2018
    Its too early to put specifics on the roadmap - but we will update document sets. We are not being "classic Microsoft" here - there is a steady stream of requests for docsets (along with other parts of classic ECM) and I've never pretended otherwise. Fear is not part of the plan. I hope to be able to give roadmap updates at SPC or Ignite this year, if that helps.
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Lanceter
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Jun 18, 2017

I know most of this thread is taken up with the modern v classic UI. However I'd like to post a 'wishlist' feature to tac onto Brent's original comment.

 

I'd like to see an option for 2-way updates of shared properties, such that an update within a document to shared properties flows back up to the doc set. Current property updates to shared properties flow from the doc set.

 

A current scenario is where we have stage payments for a project. In this scenario, there are always 4 stage payments, which are shared properties. The stage payments are calculated in an Excel spreadsheet, which is one of the default documents in the doc set. A macro updates server properties, so at least we get the stage payment amounts into document properties. It's then a manual task for the user to update doc set stage payments. It would be very useful to cascade those updates automatically back up to the doc set.

 

Can anyone suggest a way to do this in O365?

 

Expanding the thinking a bit, it would also be nice to be able to:

* Be able to set a property as updateable

* (Easily) share office objects for use between office docs in a doc set (kind of like what you can do with the new document assembly feature of Nintex and Intelledox)

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