In SharePoint 2010, documents can be organized into document sets with SharePoint 2010. As you know, before that there wasn’t any OOTB method for managing, editing or downloading documents together in a set, because unfortunately the Folders didn’t have this capability. If I’d like to simplify the document sets, there are very smart folders. But of course, they are more than that. See why:
- Document sets can share the same metadata.
- Versioning the document set instead of the separated documents.
- Initiate workflows for the whole document set.
- Document set level permission management.
- Download all documents of a document set compressed into a ZIP file.
- Customizable Welcome Page for all document set.
Sounds good, right?
Step1: from Site Actions menu select Site Settings.
Step2: go to Site Collection Administration section and select Site Collection Features.
Step3: from the list of features, find out Document Sets feature and simply Activate it if its not activated before.
Step4: once you activated the feature of documents sets in your site collection, Simply, we need to change the document library to accept content types. follow the steps below:
Step5: once done we need to associate the Document Set content type to your library, just follow bellow steps.
Step6: now we are ready to use document sets in our document library… see how bellow.
Congratulations, you had built your fist Document Set.
Happy Programming :)
Rami M. Nassar