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Multiple default views not working
Now halfway through the year and I have just discovered that this still straight up DOES NOT WORK! All the settings are there, just like before, but they are all ignored and the views cannot be set. Is this what is meant by "modern"? This is after also just finding out that document set metadata does not update when documents are moved from one document set to another... huh? So if the metadata does not cascade/update when moved, what is the point? Why is this any better than just setting default values that have to be changed manually? At least users understand how to update the item manually, telling them to update a document set's properties so it pushes down to their documents when they move them is a complete non-starter and is never going to happen.
SharePoint is an absolute abomination and I hate every minute I spend working with it. All I read about is the next great Teams feature or something related to AI or augmented reality when they have not delivered the most very basic features that would make the platform usable. Document templates are so jacked up they are unusable (template based documents still asking for save location, even when invoked from library for example), document set functionality knee-capped, simple default view settings that don't work. What a complete mess.
I had a similar issue and was able to fix it. The key is that the "default view" can be adjusted as part of web part properties rather than in the library settings.
Say you have a document library and you want a different default view to show in different places. Well, you can only set one default view. However, if you edit the document library web part you will see a toggled button to "show command bar". Select it. You will then see an option to specify both the library and view that the web part displays.
I haven't checked how this is handled as a WebPart.Property, I've only done this through the GUI so far.
Still broken. In our case, we want the View to only show in the Views drop-down if the user is already inside a Document Set of a specific type:
The settings are 'correct', but the View is still not filtered out of the View selector:
Perhaps it would get fixed if someone from the SharePoint Team knew about this porblem (e.g. VesaJuvonen)...
